The 388, a Center for the Psychoanalytic Treatment of Psychotic Disorders

The 388, named for its address, is a government-funded center for the treatment of psychotic disorders in Québéc City, Canada. Its treatment model is holistic. They offer crisis support, art therapy and psychiatry, but the central treatment there is psychoanalysis, and the treatment has been effective.

It's been open for 42 years, and the clinical team there have successfully treated hundreds of patients, allowing them to find freedom from their symptoms and the mental stability to become active and contributing members of society. Furthermore, their work has allowed unprecedented advances in psychoanalytic clinical practice with psychosis, and many people from around North America and the world travel there for training.

Sadly, it's about to close.

The government agency in charge of funding the 388 has determined that, because psychoanalysis is not on their roster of approved treatment protocols for psychosis, they will stop funding the center. Unless they reverse their decision, the Center will close on March 13th, effectively ending the treatment of about 80 current patients.

There's a petition to save the 388 here. The Sacramento Psychoanalytic Society Board invites you to consider signing this petition, and passing it along to anyone in your network that may also be invested in the psychoanalytic cure.

You can also visit their website, le388.ca. There, you will find more information (in French) about the treatment model at The 388, and read letters in support of the Center from clinicians and organizations around the world. You can also watch a video (also in French) about the Center, produced by a former patient.

Finally, you will find an article article below, translated to English, from the Québéc newspaper Le Soleil, containing a few brief testimonials from patients about their treatment at the 388.

Thanks for your time.

Nathan Lupo, on behalf of the Board of the Sacramento Psychoanalytic Society