Iaap newsletter 28 - The new Israeli Jungian society

Concerning our Analytical Psychotherapy Masters Program, the 2008 students
delivered their final papers during the month of March, thus finalizing their
propaedeutic training.
During the same month, our Continuing Education Program started with the first oneday
training module: Constellation of destructivity, the evil shadow in analysis. This
program is designed to train our licensed therapists and counselors wishing to gain
deeper understanding of Jungian psychological theory and clinical practice. The above
mentioned module was the first from a series of three scheduled for 2008. These are
one-day training sessions where senior members deliver case study reports and the
participants, therapists and counselors working under supervision, are able to learn as
well as discuss examples from their own practice.
In april 2008, we were glad to meet Robert Hinshaw, our designated liaison officer
travelling to Romania to meet us and work with our grup on setting our priorities and
evaluating our needs as a Developing Group. After many rewarding meetings with
Robert during his trip to Bucharest, our conclusions were clustered around the idea of
receiving visits of IAAP senior analysts and trainers who would like to travel to
Romania for supervision and personal analysis sessions as well as for delivering
workshops and conferences. We take this opportunity to kindly thank Robert for his
advice and support for our group and for our quality time together.
During July, our Continuing Education Program went one step further with the second
training module: Clinical techniques in analysis; Parental Complexes and Couple
Relationships.
Another training activity for therapists and counselors practicing under supervision
took place in September and was dedicated to the Sandplay technique. A few months
prior to this activity, participants were asked to complete a series of 12 sandtrays,
and the main part of our three-day “out-of-town” workshop was to discuss the
individual processes shown by each of the participants in their trays. The next stage
will create sandplay supervision groups, while the participants will continue using the
sandplay technique in their personal analysis as well as in working with their patients.
During October, we were glad to welcome a new group of 23 people starting the first
semester of their propaedeutic training within our four- semester Analytical
Psychotherapy Masters Program.
In November, it was time for the third module of our Continuing Education Program:
Using counter transference in analysis.
Another part of our Continuing Education Program is aiming to instruct supervisors and
training therapists. This activity took place throughout the second part of 2008 and
consisted of a series of meetings and workshops on various issues, such as: enhancing
the supervisee's work, elaborating technique, elucidating transference and counter
transference issues, proposing direction and focus to clinical inquiry.
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