Iaap newsletter 28 - The new Israeli Jungian society

Australia / New Zealand
IAAP SOCIETY REPORTS : 2007 - 2008
IAAP NEWSLETTER 28
AUSTRALIAN AND NEW ZEALAND SOCIETY OF JUNGIAN ANALYSTS (ANZSJA)
The most vital work analysts undertake remains hidden from public view. It is the
extracurricular public activities of our members that form the content of IAAP
reports from societies. Yet it is important to bear in mind the secret, painstaking and
patient work of the consulting room and all our ‘quiet achievers’ while reporting on
our more public activities.
A striking quality of the extramural activities of members of ANZSJA is its multiplicity
and diversity. Across two continents our analysts engage in a variety of applications of
Jungian thought. From the ongoing development of a Jungian training model utilising
indigenous Australian and New Zealand metaphors, work with refugees and survivors
of trauma, indigenous psychotherapy, the interface between spirituality and
psychotherapy, environmental and political concerns, art therapy, film, sandplay,
neuroscience, music to olive farming!
Analysts, as with other health practitioners, are often the first to see the effects of
traumatic individual relationships, natural disasters and human rights abuses. ANZSJA
members such as Anne Noonan, Craig San Roque and Leon Petchkovsky, in addition to
their clinical practice, also work with Indigenous Australians, as Anne Noonan writes,
‘bearing witness to the toxicity of colonization and its ongoing traumas in mental
health substance abuse and indiscriminate legal enforcement’. Anne Noonan is also
involved with helping West Papuan political refugees from Indonesia. She writes, ‘The
human rights abuses in West Papua include up to 15 years incarceration for peacefully
raising their flag. The Jung Society of Sydney invited a Papuan anthropologist to give a
lecture on the symbolic significance of the Morning Star flag which has an enormous
uniting symbolism for the West Papuans.’
Wishing to make a psychological contribution to the debates surrounding climate
change, the Sydney Jung Society has commissioned several ANZSJA analysts to
compile a book on climate change, looking at the local region and the sinking Pacific
Islands and responding to the dreams of our patients which are increasingly featuring
cosmic dust storms, drought-ridden wildernesses, dried-up lakes, which are
symptomatic of deep concern at the collective as well as personal level.
Glenda Cloughley uses the medium of voice to address climate change, composing
for Canberra's A Chorus of Women who, like the Greek Chorus, serve the community’s
conscience by musical commentary. Glenda's current project, The Gifts of the
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