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

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

 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.

 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.

 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.

 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.