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President: Kiyoshi Ogura, M. D.
 Fifty-two years have passed since the Japan Psychoanalytic Society joined
the International
Psychoanalytical Association (IPA), which officially represents and continues
to support and develop Freudian psychoanalysis. Our Society supports the
rules and regulations of the IPA , under which it engages in a diverse
range of domestic and international activities.
Psychoanalysis is a unique method of treatment that is founded on conducting therapeutic sessions four or more times a week.. This is a treatment experience that cannot be understood unless a person experiences it personally, and which can be obtained only in this way. Practitioners of such treatment clearly need to have the appropriate personality, knowledge, qualifications, clinical skills, and experience.
Our Society has a separate department for practicing psychoanalytic psychotherapy
that does not@necessarily entail a four-times-a-week treatment.
This is because there are patients who opt to undergo treatment less than
four times a week, and who indeed benefit from such less freuent treatments.
The Japan Psychoanalytic Society will make every effort to contribute to
the further development of psychoanalysis in Japan, to meet the needs of
patients who seek psychoanalytic treatment, and to play a part on the international
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