The Malta Association of Psychotherapists (hereinafter: the Association) is an independent, non-governmental, non-profit and non-political association which gathers associations and individual psychotherapists of different orientations (psychoanalytic, gestalt, transactional-analysis, behavioural-cognitive, existential, Jungian etc.) for the purpose of achieving common interests in development and advancement of the theory, practice, education and research in psychotherapy as as uniting into one joint organisation, therapists of different therapeutic orientations.