Iaap newsletter 28 - The new Israeli Jungian society

Ukraine (Kiev)
KIEV SOCIETY OF ANALYTICAL PSYCHOLOGY
Our group was recognized as an official IAAP Developing Group in 2003. It consists now of 21
members, most of them being psychotherapists or psychiatrists.
Since 2004, thanks to the support of IAAP, regular visits of IAAP analysts from Italy and France
have been established. These visits consisted of theoretical seminars, group or individual
supervision sessions and individual analytical sessions. We are very thankful to Marina Conti
from Milan, Italy, who was our liaison person from 2004 till 2007, as well as to Francois
Caillet, from Paris, who regularly visited us as well, and to Francois Martin-Vallas who also
came more recently from France to Kiev. Their dedication and invaluable efforts allow our
Group members to develop and identify themselves as Jungian therapists. We are also very
happy that Christian Gaillard has accepted to become our liaison person since 2008. In
collaboration with him and with the IAAP Executive Committee we can now set up a further
stage of our educational and training programme.
Dmitry Zalessky passed his final exam as “router” in April 2007, and we hope he will be
officially recognized as IAAP Individual Member at the next IAAP international Congress in
Montreal in 2010.
At the beginning of August 2008, Christian Gaillard and John Hill visited us in Kiev and made
the “screening interviews” for 9 members of our Group. It was a great event for us that all
these 9 DG members have been recommended as IAAP “routers” : Yelena Pozdeeva, Olga
Sikorskaya, Sergey Nedbaevsky, Yulia Kobzeva, Yuri Danko, Inna Kyrilyuk, Olga Kasyanenko,
Yelizaveta Molostova and Konstantin Slepak. Oxana Zalesskaya has been an IAAP “router”
since 2004, and she is now preparing her “intermediate exam”.
For the time being, we are setting up and beginning with a consistent programme of
supervision that will include regular visits of IAAP analysts to Kiev who will offer group and
individual supervision sessions, theoretical lectures and seminars, which is vitally needed for
the further development of our “recommended routers”. Richard Wainwright from London
made a first visit to Kiev as supervisor between October 30 and November 2. He provided
group supervision sessions for all our DG members and some specific sessions in small groups
for our recommended routers. We feel inspired after his visit and we do hope that in 2009 he
and possibly some other supervisors will continue to ensure our supervision training.
As regards personal analysis, two Jungian analysts visited Kiev in the course of this year 2008 :
Marina Conti from Milan, Italy, and Anna Konstantinova from St Petersburg, Russia. The
analytical sessions they offer are open to every member of our DG, within the limits of their
time. Three members of our Group go to Moscow on a regular basis and have their personal
analysis with IAAP analysts members of the Russian Association of Analytical Psychology. We
are also waiting the visit of Yelena Pourtova, an IAAP member from Moscow, Russia, who will
offer us seminars in December.
Our programme has been made possible thanks to the financial support of the IAAP and to
donations generously offered by the Wilhelm Bitter Stiftung in Stuttgart, the Hoerni-Jung
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