Iaap newsletter 28 - The new Israeli Jungian society

We are very pleased to announce the first official issue of the only Romanian online
Analytical Journal: Chiron. The journal can be found on our website
http://www.psihoterapieanalitica.ro/meniu_6_cheiron.php
In addition, this year a new book was printed by the Romanian Academy Editorial
House. The book title is Theology and Analysis and it was a collaboration among
Jungian analysts, philosophers and orthodox theologians. The coordinators of the book
were M. Minulescu, M.Vasile, N. Branzea, I. Popescu.
At the end of November 2008, our association counts 75 members, out of which 52
members are practicing as therapists or counselors and 23 members are still in
training. Our General Assembly meeting is schedued for December 5th and will discuss
17 new membership requests waiting for approval. We estimate that by the end of
December 2008, RAAP will be proud to report a total of 92 members.
For the next year, our Developing Group is planning to continue the programs started
in 2008, while adding new activities which will include IAAP’s participation and
support. Our propaedeutic program will continue with the second and third semester
of the Analytical Psychotherapy Masters Program, and during October a new group will
start their training.
Within our Continuing Education Program, we are planning for another set of sessions
for psychotherapists and counselors working under supervision. One of the sessions
will build upon last year’s work and will concern Sandplay in analysis; another
workshop will discuss Fairy tales and symbols in analysis; and last but not least, we
are planning to organize five training modules of theory and case studies concerning
the Clinical techniques in analysis. The modules will cover the following issues:
interpretation of symbolic materials, therapeutic relationship, modern perspectives
on psychopathology, analytical relationship with terminally ill people, couples and
relationships.
Our current difficulties are related to the management of the high number of
therapists working under supervision. We work in individual and group supervision as
well as intervision groups in order to cover the needs for supervision. The real
problem is that there are only ten supervisors, out of whom only four are very
experienced in supervision activities. Given our difficulties in this area, we are hoping
that one of the IAAP support areas in 2009 will consist of supervision visits and
activities. We would be glad to receive IAAP support in other areas as well, such as
personal and group analysis, intensive courses on various issues of interest (i.e. Ego
development, Transference and counter transference; Sandplay practice),
international support for our Continuing Education Program for supervisors and
training psychotherapists.
pg. 126