International Psychoanalytical Association
The International Psychoanalytical Association (IPA ) is the largest global association of psychoanalysts and was - founded in March 1910 by Sigmund Freud and other psychoanalysts in Nuremberg - at the suggestion of Sandor Ferenczi. The English name is International Psychoanalytic Association (IPA).
History
The founding president of the IPA was CG Jung, the Sandor Ferenczi, Ernest Jones, Karl Abraham, Max Eitington among others followed. Currently, the Chair each between Europe, Latin and North America. Older than the IPA is the Vienna Psychoanalytic Society ( UPU ), which is 1908 from the Wednesday societies that met in Freud's apartment, emerged. Second Austrian branch company of IPV is the Vienna Working Group for psychoanalysis, which was founded in 1947 and is now managed by August Ruhs. The Swiss Society for Psychoanalysis represents the Swiss Confederation in the IPA. The German branch of the IPA was founded in 1949, long the German Psychoanalytical Association (DPV ) with which to connect names such as Alexander Mitscherlich and Horst- Eberhard Richter. Now is the turn already in the interwar period, active, abandoned by the Nazi regime, re- established after the war German Psychoanalytic Society (DPG ), represented in the IPA.
Organization
The IPA sees itself as the " primary accrediting and regulatory body of psychoanalysis in the world" with the order, " the continuous vitality and development of psychoanalysis as a science, as a profession and as a form of treatment to ensure ". The 11,000 members of the IPA are organized in the 66 affiliates in 33 countries.