The Psychoanalytic Center of California (PCC) is a non-profit corporation based in Los Angeles, California dedicated to charitable, educational, and scientific activities.

The mission of the PCC is to explore and transmit a psychoanalytic understanding of the unconscious inner world with a particular focus on primitive mental states, and to use that understanding for the psychoanalytic treatments of emotional disturbance.

We seek to provide the highest quality psychoanalytic education and training for individuals seeking to become psychoanalysts and psychoanalytically informed psychotherapists. The PCC also supports the ongoing professional growth and development of its members and other mental health professionals.   

There is a growing movement in psychoanalytic societies in America and throughout the world to better understand and repair the impediments to equality in the field of psychoanalysis. We know that we must actively engage in a critical self-reflection process regarding the ways in which our theories, practice, institutions, and people have caused harm to those in our human family.

The PCC Diversity Committee has been formed to carry out an in-depth study of the issues of prejudice and racism from a psychoanalytical perspective; to advise on what action the PCC should take to embed in PCC and the wider community a greater understanding of the roots of prejudice and racism, along with opportunities to address it; to suggest how to debate on these issues within the PCC and among other institutes; and to encourage PCC to raise awareness of these issues within our institute and with our national and international colleagues regarding updating training curricula.