Iaap newsletter 28 - The new Israeli Jungian society

Bulgaria (Sofia)
BULGARIAN SOCIETY OF ANALYTICAL PSYCHOLOGY, C. G. JUNG (BSAP)
During 2008, the main activity of the Bulgarian DG has been to continue the
educational program for psychotherapists with a Jungian approach. This program
started in October 2007. Following the initiation of the study program, the Bulgarian
Jung Society DG has been enriched with about 30 new members.
It is the policy of our society to be open to new members. For this reason we have
different kinds of membership – regular and associated members. The latter are those
who do not fulfil certain educational criteria, though most of them are expected to
reach the appropriate level of psychotherapeutic education and training, in order to
eventually become regular members.
In 2007, four honorary members were accepted in the society: Helga Thomas, Erel
Shalit, Rina Porat and Annette Lowe. These are persons who have greatly contributed
to our Jung movement, but they do not have voting rights in BSAP. At the moment
there are seventeen regular, full members. The present students in the recently
started study program for psychotherapy with Jungian orientation are expected to
become associate members at our annual meeting, November 17, 2008.
This year, the plan of study program was succesfully fulfilled. It included seminars,
personal analyses/psychotherapy and supervisions. This is possible not the least due
to the important contribution of our guest lecturers, who are simultaneously members
of the extended study-committee: Erel Shalit (liaison person), Helga Thomas,
Waltraut Koerner, Andreas von Heidwolf, Christian Vojtschizki.
Simultaneously, a new and important tendency in our training is that we increasingly
rely on our own resources; three of our members, who have formally finished the
program in Jungian psychotherapy (Krassimira Baychinska, Petya Horozova and
Svetlana Nikolkova) are engaged as lecturers and personal therapists in the training.
Study Program – 2008
The basic module for the beginners is divided into five units, and includes:
“Introduction to Analytical Psychology” (lectures, workshops and discussions)
by Dr. Krassimira Baychinska;
“Jungian approach to Bulgarian folklore” by Dr. Anatol Anchev (folklorist,
Bulgarian Academy of Sciences);
Clinical seminars – Jungian approach to a) anxiety disorders and depression,
and b) to schizophrenia, as well as biological and psychological theories by Dr.
Svetlana Nikolkova.
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