Editor's Introduction

Before introducing readers to the current issue of Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy in China, I want to share the good news about the future of the journal, a future that will enhance its availability and impact inside China and beyond.

For the past year, we have been in negotiation with the China-American Psychoanalytic Alliance (CAPA), the sponsor of the major American training programme for Chinese clinicians. CAPA has been offering high-quality training since 2007. Founded by the American psychoanalyst Elise Snyder, CAPA is widely known and respected in China. Its trainings have been offered only in English, and therefore only to English-speaking Chinese trainees, as has also been true for the Sino-German and Sino-Norwegian trainings. However, in the last few years, Chinese CAPA graduates have begun to organise their own trainings within China, now offering training in Mandarin, with the result that the influence of CAPA has increased dramatically. (Incidentally, trainings offered by the International Psychotherapy Institute that I co-founded, and others that I and my colleagues offer elsewhere, have been taught with Mandarin translation.)

Now the CAPA board of directors has agreed to adopt the journal as its official journal, underwriting subscriptions for CAPA students and faculty, and with the ability to offer group subscriptions at favourable rates to CAPA graduates. The journal is already distributed via PEP-Web, the groundbreaking collection of psychoanalytic literature resources, and the journal is negotiating other enhancements for increasing the its availability.

As founding editor, I am deeply gratified at this development that can only enhance the journal, provide for a regular readership, and at the same time offer a wider base for recruiting contributions by Chinese colleagues and Western teachers, and all those who share the journal's passion for the growth of psychoanalytic thought and clinical application in China.

With the future of the journal thus