CHARACTERISTICS OF AND PROSPECTS FOR THE DEVELOPING GROUP

IN ANALYTICAL PSYCHOLOGY IN RUSSIA

Oksana Lavrova, Ph.D., Member of the St-Petersburg DG

To focus

1. Cross-cultural differences: the formal aspects of training and how these are affected by the present attitudes to psychotherapy and analysis in Russia.

2. Mutual Expectations of both sides: similarities and differences

1. Cross-cultural differences [The Self of Russian stub ]

Psychotherapeutic practice in Russia [St-Petersburg, The exhibition of modern art – I. Dudina «Dostoevsky against a tower of GASPROM» ]

The training IAAP[ St-Petersburg, The exhibition of modern art – “Library” ]

2. Mutual Expectations of both sides[P. Breughel «Two Monks»]

General “alchemical retort”[L. Cranach Oldest, “Adam and Eva”]

Strengths

Personal and professional and connected to their wish for education and training specifically in the field of analytical psychology.

Opportunity for continue professional development.

Much appreciated. High professional standing analysts and

supervisors.

Weaknesses

Theoretical education. The lack of cohesion and continuity between

the qualified analysts in Russia, members of the Russian Society for Analytical Psychology (RSAP) and those of us in the DG.

Controlling and our UK colleagues were not sufficiently flexible in permitting changes of personal analyst or supervisor, timing of exams etc.

More dialogues and freedom of communication.

Threаts

Group processes have not received enough attention.

Destructive aspects of group dynamics have led to various losses and slowed down the integration of the group.

Opportunities

General conferences and workshops. Connection and networking within Jungian community,

to participate in courses on supervision, peer group supervision and future training for specialists in analytical psychology.

Plan to continue their professional psychotherapeutic practice as analytic therapists, psychiatrists and scientific researchers and some respondents mentioned the importance of integration in post-Soviet space.

Co-operative exchanges between analytical psychologists in St-Petersburg, Moscow, Minsk, Kiev, Vilnius and Krasnodar on the one hand and the IAAP on the other.

Foundation for a Jungian assembly in post-soviet space

[B. Michelangelo. Saint Family]