The IPA is the world’s primary accrediting and regulatory body for psychoanalysis. Our mission is to assure the continued vigour and development of psychoanalysis for the benefit of psychoanalytic patients. We work in partnership with our 70 constituent organizations in 33 countries to support our over 12,000 members.
Our aims include creating new psychoanalytic groups, stimulating debate, conducting research, developing training policies and establishing links with other bodies. We organize a large biennial Congress which is open to all.
This is the IPA's only official website.
For a good part of the 20th century Freud captured the interest and imagination of the enlightened world. The Oxford philosopher Gilbert Ryle accurately described him as “the one genius psychology has produced”. And it is this genius, together with the difficult truths out of which he constructed psychoanalysis that allowed Freud to locate his discoveries, without pretension and risk of ridicule, in the great tradition of Copernicus and Darwin.
We have six new titles to be published this year addressing a range of concepts in psychoanalytic thought, from psychosomatics to clinical and theoretical analysis of perversion. 
The IPA’s popular CAPSA (Committee on Analytic Practice and Scientific Activities) Programme, which aims to promote the inter-regional exchange of ideas about psychoanalytic practice, is continuing in 2010 to offer funds to IPA Societies and Groups.
FUNDS NOW AVAILABLE!
Under European law all books pass into the public domain 70 years after the death of their author - which is the case of Sigmund Freud since 1/1/2010. His works will be made available on Wikisource, a sister website of the free online encyclopedia Wikipedia. Some of his texts are already accessible.