Iaap newsletter 28 - The new Israeli Jungian society

As a result, Dr Massimo Caci from Palermo, Italy, visited Tunisia 7 times, staying for 3-
4 days each time, and making it possible for 11 of us to develop our personal
experience of analysis. The sessions of personal analysis were paid at a local rate. We
are extremely grateful to Dr. Caci for being so available and attentive to each of us.
Concurrently, we met as a group on a regular basis, each session being devoted to the
discussion of a key concept in Analytical Psychology or to the discussion of a clinical
case in terms of peer supervision. Every session of this kind was introduced by one of
us and led to further readings.
As the majority of our members have a clinical practice as psychologists,
psychotherapists or medical doctors, we deeply need, of course, to work with
supervisors as well. This dimension of our personal and professional development has
been unfortunately terribly limited. In the end, we only had the opportunity to have
two visits of this kind during the course of this year: one from our IAAP liaison person,
Prof. Christian Gaillard, from Paris, and another one from Dr. Bernard Sartorius, from
Switzerland who, besides the theoretical and clinical working sessions he had with the
Group, also gave a public lecture that was greatly appreciated by a large audience of
Tunisian psychologists, practitioners in mental health and academics.
Unfortunately we have recently had to deal with some difficult tensions among us,
mostly concerning governance issues. We do hope that we will find the best possible
solution to these current difficulties in the very near future.
While one of us has been acknowledged as an IAAP Individual Member in the past and
another of us who has been involved for some years in the “route” towards IAAP
Individual Membership recently passed her “intermediate exam”, three others are
actively preparing the documents required for admission to the “screening
interviews” according to the IAAP rules. Many of our younger members wish to
develop their skills as clinicians in the same way in the future.
Submitted by:
Ms. Radhia Ben Mabrouk, President
Christian Gaillard, IAAP Liaison
Developing Group Reports : 2007-2008 : Tunisia (Tunis)
pg. 135