Iaap newsletter 28 - The new Israeli Jungian society

Submitted by:
Krzysztof Rutkowski (IM), President
Fiona Palmer Barnes, IAAP Liaison
Romania (Bucharest)
Developing Group Reports : 2007-2008 : Poland (Krakow / Wroclaw)
ROMANIAN ASSOCIATION FOR ANALYTICAL PSYCHOLOGY(RAAP)
Being one of the new Developing Groups of the IAAP, the Romanian Association for
Analytical Psychology (RAAP) was established in November 2000 by only three
founding members, and two years later an Analytical Psychotherapy Masters Program
was already in place and running, having official recognition as a university based
program.
In the following few years, the community of members was enlarged and between
2005 and 2007 RAAP members started to spread Jungian views to the public through
two public workshops given at the National Psychology Fair of 2005, as well as 36 bimonthly
conferences addressed to the general public.
Our initial encounter with IAAP took place in June 2007, when Joe Cambray and
Angela Connolly visited our group for the first time and spent two full and very
rewarding days with us, delivering us three group-supervision sessions as well as a
conference and establishing an authentic connection between our group and IAAP.
Following this important meeting, the Developing Group in Romania was recognized
and IAAP allocated an annual budget of CHF 3000 to our group. We send our gratitude
to Angela and Joe, for their dedicated work in supporting us.
By the end of 2007, our association comprised 63 members, out of whom 32 members
are practicing as therapists or counselors.
Our Developng Group activities during 2008 are summarized below:
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