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The International Psychoanalytical Association
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.
Presidential Speech 2009
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.
16TH IPA ANNUAL RESEARCH TRAINING PROGRAMME
The 2010 Programme will be focused around the research of attending Fellows and discussed by an international Faculty of IPA Visiting Professors in Psychoanalytic Research. The programme will be held from 5th to 13th August 2010 and will be based at University College 
London, which is situated in Bloomsbury, the academic quarter in the heart of London.
CAPSA: Sharing Ideas about Practice Worldwide
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!
Sigmund Freud online
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.
International Psychoanalytical Association