Iaap newsletter 28 - The new Israeli Jungian society

theory and the thinking of M.L. von Franz. Since this year is the 10 th Anniversary of
M.L. von Franz’s death, a day-long seminar was dedicated to her particular work
regarding mainly the female world, myths and fairy tales. This year, the AIPA review
“Studi Junghiani” published a double volume on the issue of “Trauma”, in order to
collect contributions concerning a very topical issue.
Following the great interest aroused by the course entitled “Le Nuove Frontiere della
Cura in una Società Multiculturale” (The New Frontiers of Treatment in a Multicultural
Society) held last year, the Rome Branch has promoted another important event in
cooperation with the ETNA (Etnopsicologia Analitica) group set up just for this
purpose. This new course aimed to delve further into the issues discussed last year
and devoted to exploring different topics of inter-cultural psychology, adding a
particular focus on clinical aspects; the programme was developed over eleven weekends,
held on a monthly basis and open to non-members as well; it consisted of
lessons, workshops, clinical seminars directed towards specific training to improve
psychotherapeutic practice with migrant patients in our multi-ethnic society.
As usual, the other local branches (Florence, Milan and Naples) also organized
numerous cultural events, where colleagues from other Associations were always
welcome. We only report the Conference organized in Tuscany where some colleagues
were asked to offer their own experiences in order to delve into different suggestions
for clinical practice from Jung’s works, in the light of the most recent research results
as well as discoveries in the field of neuroscience. The consultation Centres of all
AIPA branches continue to work hard and increase their activities, particularly in the
special section devoted to children, adolescents and their parents.
Among the books published this year we mention : “Cosa muove il Mondo” (Magi Ed.)
proceedings of the Fifth National Congress concerning the concept and the dynamic
mechanisms of motivation (collected by S. Carta e L. Pavone Editors) and “Generi e
Generazioni. Ordine e Disordine nelle Identificazioni“, proceedings of the Italian
Freudian Society Congress where our President Vitolo was invited to give a speech
concerning Jung and Post-Freudian analytic travail.
The two groups with a peculiar predilection for “images” are L.A.I. “Laboratorio
Analitico delle Immagini” (Analytical Laboratory of Images) and “Imaghia” , whose
characteristics were described in last year’s IAAP Newsletter Report. Both continue to
regularly organize specific events concerning their chosen field. For instance, besides
the six seminars held this year, the L.A.I. has promoted the publication of the
collection of papers written by different Authors “Il gesto che racconta” (The
Narrating Gesture) with a conference to discuss the main issues which qualify Sand-
Play Therapy. “Imaghia”, which gives particular attention to the “communicationmedia”
context, gave prizes ex-aequo to two films : Juno (directed by Jason Reitman)
and Reservation Road (directed by Terry Gorge), because both movies were deemed
to give expression to the possibility of transformation, according to the rules of
“Premio Imaghia ai Film che fanno bene” (Imaghia Prize for Films that do you good).
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