Iaap newsletter 28 - The new Israeli Jungian society

Spain
SOCIEDAD ESPAÑOLA DE PSICOLOGIA ANALITICA (SEPA)
After four years of intense work, the council of SEPA arrived at the end of its
legislature and the positions of responsibility were renewed last October.
In the last years we have revised our statutes, the training program and the training
regulations, as well as the content of our website. It could be said that a total change
of orientation of SEPA as a Jungian training society has taken place. In the same way,
we have organized a program of seminars for three consecutive years open to the
numerous public interested in the ideas of Jung in our country. We are finding that
there is more and more participation in our events.
Last November we started the second course of the new training program.
Analysts and Candidates agree, and we are pleased that we are obtaining a favourable
atmosphere to deepen the training of analysts with a richer wealth of interaction and
creativity. SEPA, as a whole, has begun to enjoy being a Jungian society that evolves
with the feeling of security and trust in its own possibilities.
Our objective for next year is to consolidate all these changes.
The most significant sample in our current process is manifested, on the one hand, in
an internal movement, fruit of the new climate of rigor in the work, the design of the
new program, as well as the organization of the administrative tasks and the
encounters of, what we call, the “analysts’ circle”, where we discuss the topics we
need to elaborate all together. On the other hand, there is an opening movement,
shown by the fact that our candidates come, more and more, from different parts of
the country. We have trainees from Alicante, Valencia, Madrid, Galicia, Basque
Country and Catalunya. Besides this, a group constituted by psychologists, pedagogues
and doctors interested in the work of C.G Jung who meets every month in Vigo
(Galicia) with the analyst Concha Pazo.
We can also affirm other opening movements, as is the case of some important
contributions abroad. Dr. Rebeca Retamales is going to participate this year for the
third time consecutively in the PhD. course of Existential Pathology at the University
of Carabobo in Valencia, Venezuela, imparting seminars about the theory of C.G.Jung.
Next year she is also going to teach in another Venezuelan University: the University
of Andes in Mérida.
María Mora, a Professional Candidate, offered a talk in the last congress of IAJS in
Zürich in July this year entitled: “Two Spanish Legends from the Frontier Lands”.
On the other hand, Juan Carlos Albaladejo and Esperanza Pérez who attended during
the last two years the International Workshop of Analytical Psychology in Childhood
Adolescence, have worked intensely this year 2008 to organize in Spain the last
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