Iaap newsletter 28 - The new Israeli Jungian society

We will be very happy to announce the first diploma granted from our institute in the
near future. As mentioned above, we now have nine diploma candidates, one of
whom has now come to the point of sitting for the second half of the final
examinations, having passed the first half. In comparison with the Japanese
candidates trained in Zürich, the training term here will generally be longer, because
the students are grappling, step by step, with their training at the same time as
teaching at university or working in hospitals as clinical psychologists. We think of this
as having quite different, although good effects on them, from the intensive and
shorter -term training in a foreign country. That is because such longer training also
includes necessary gateways for Japanese to train themselves in Japan and then
become Jungian analysts.
Although until now we can evaluate our training system as functioning sufficiently, as
shown above, we nevertheless have a matter of concern about it; i. e. an outflow of
our diploma candidates who decide to finish their training in Zürich. We do recognize
that there are various factors behind their decision, but we will have to consider and
discuss the standard of our training. Such a standard cannot fully function either in
the case of being too strict or too easy. In so doing, we need to take into account the
above-mentioned peculiarity of the training environment for our candidates in Japan.
In the last six years, we have invited many leading Jungian analysts, such as Murray
Stein, Wolfgang Giegerich, Allan Guggenbühl, Renos Papadopoulos, and Christian
Gaillard, as lecturers and had a chance to communicate with them. This year too,
James Hillman, Doris Lier and Allan Guggenbühl, have already been, and Andrew
Samuels will come. We will continue in this way and in addition try to regularly send
out information on our academic and practical activities to Jungian societies all over
the world from Japan.
Transitions:
New Member of our society
Yasuhiro Suzuki - Title of diploma thesis: “Religion and Psychology: The
Dialogue between Religious Enlightenment and Psychological Insight”
Submitted by:
Yasuhiro Tanaka
IAAP Newsletter 28 || IAAP Society Reports || Japan AJAJ
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