Iaap newsletter 28 - The new Israeli Jungian society

The Public Programme Committee has organised a broad range of talks in London,
Oxford and Cambridge this year. The Society, together with the British
Psychoanalytical Society and the Journal of Analytical Psychology also organised
‘Freud Meets Jung: a Centenary Celebration’ in November 2007. Speakers and Chairs
from all three organisations came together to celebrate this important moment in the
history of psychoanalysis, and to explore similarities and differences in their current
approaches to the conference theme: “Sexuality: Hysteria or Complex?”. The majority
of the participants were from Jungian organisations.
We have continued to step up our promotional work, in particular through the update
and redesign of the Society’s website (www.thesap.org.uk) and the result is a new,
elegant, user-friendly site.
Looking externally, the move towards statutory registration continues and has
provoked discussion and ongoing consultation as to what this will mean for the Society
as a whole and for individual members. The timetable for the introduction of
regulation is uncertain and it now seems that an application to join the Health
Professions Council (HPC) may not go ahead until 2011. In the meantime some
members of the Society have contributed to working groups developing National
Occupational Standards for psychological therapies, while others have been exploring
with the British Psychoanalytical Council, its future strategy in light of demands posed
by statutory regulation.
The Journal of Analytical Psychology has had a busy and successful year. We continue
to receive a large number of papers from all over the world. In April 2008, we
published a special edition of papers from the 2007 IAAP conference in Cape Town on
the theme of Africa; in June we published a themed edition on the self; A further
edition on contemporary views of the self is planned for late 2009.
In May the Journal’s XVIIIth International Conference took place in Italy at Lake Orta
on the theme of ‘Tradition and Creativity: Reframing Analysis for a Changing World’.
The conference was well attended with over 100 people participating from a total of
17 countries worldwide, including six countries from the former East European
Communist Bloc.
The next Journal conference will be held in San Francisco from 29 th – 31 st May 2009 on
the theme of ‘The Transcendent Function Today: Imagination and Psychic
Transformation in Analysis’. Speakers include John Beebe, Gustav Bovensiepen, Mardi
Ireland, Toshio Kawai, Marica Rytovaara, Joy Schaverien and Jan Wiener.
Always keen to extend the international profile of the Journal, we welcome from
2009 Viviane Thibaudier from Paris and Astrid Berg from South Africa to the Editorial
Board. Thanks are due to all members of our Editorial Board and translators of
abstracts who play such a vital role in fostering the international profile of the
Journal. We offer particular thanks to Elizabeth Adametz our German translator since
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