Iaap newsletter 28 - The new Israeli Jungian society

organized. The theme for 2008-2009 is the Puer-Senex. We are following a model of
theoretical, experiential and clinical presentations around the subject. In this
meeting Avi Bauman gave the theoretical paper, Leah Avshalom and Nati Peri
presented the movie Oneigin and discussed the puer aspects and Baruch Cahana
presented clinical material. It was an extremely interesting, well-attended weekend.
The presentations were excellent, and thought provoking and the discussions were
lively and fruitful. We find that this model is very effective and plan to repeat it.
Here in Israel all of the depth psychology institutes have gathered together to bring
out a journal in Hebrew. Our representative is Avi Bauman, and five of our members
have agreed to act as referents on articles submitted to the journal. We are looking
forward to having a strong Jungian representation in the journal and to introducing
Jung to Hebrew speaking psychologists and analysts. (The Freud-Jung letters were
just published here in Hebrew.)
Submitted by
Maxine Zukov
Israel
IAAP Newsletter 28 || IAAP Society Reports || Israel IIJP
NEW ISRAELI JUNGIAN ANALYSTS (NIJS)
The past year has been one of expansion for our Society, as well as a time for a
meeting with the new and the diverse. We are now eight years old, with 26 members
and 19 candidates in training. Our members also run two schools of Jungian-oriented
psychotherapy, besides the regular analytic training program.
Our Society was born out of the difficulties that resulted from the splits in the original
Israel Jungian Association, and owes its current strength and viability to the dedicated
efforts that the founders have invested in its establishment and development. The
fruits of this work were harvested this year, with the acceptance into our ranks of
seven graduates from the first training group. Most of them are now actively involved
in the Society's committees and in the training program, including me, the current
secretary.
Our first meeting of the year dealt with "meeting the stranger," introduced in a
lecture by newly qualified member Moshe Alon. He considered from the perspective
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