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IFP Presidential Message (2003-1 IFP 뉴스레터) |
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2003-10-06 11:26:30 |
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Presidential Message
PROF. ULRICH SCHNYDER. MD
PRESlDENT. IFP
In August 2002, at the General Assembly held during the 18th World Congress of Psychotherapy in Trondheim, Norway, I was elected President of the IFP for a four years term. I feel honoured to serve as President of one of the oldest professional organizations in the field of psychotherapy, founded as early as l935 by one of the pioneers of modern psychotherapy, Carl Gustav Jung.
At the beginning of my term, I would like to thank Prof. Wolfgang Senf, MD, our outgoing President: he has guided the Federation through the last four years. Under his wise leadership, the IFP managed to survive < in troubled waters>, in times characterized by increasing tensions among professional societies of psychotherapists, and by ever growing economic difficulties our field was confronted with. Please find more details about Prof. Senf's presidency in his report in this Newsletter.
According to my nominations, the IFP Council has appointed Dr. Alfried Längle, MD (Vienna, Austria) as Secretary General, Dr. Ria Reul-Verlaan, MD (The Hague, The Netherlands) as Treasurer, and Prof. Tsutomu Sakuta, MD (Tokyo, Japan) as chairman for the I9th World Congress on Psychotherapy, for the 2002-2006 term. Welcome to our new Board members!
As President, I will try to lead the Federation in a way that ensures, on the one hand, that we can build on our great tradition and provide a sufficient degree of continuity. On the other hand, change and adaptation to new challenges are necessary as well. The Board and myself will work towards an increase of our membership, particularly in those regi ons where IFP is not yet very well represented, for instance in the Spanish speaking countries. Apart from this, we will have to improve and bring more reliability into the Fedaration's offers to its membership. We are well aware that membership satisfaction depends to a great degree on swift and problem-free communication. Please let me know if communication between you and our new secretariat at the Psychiatric Department, University Hospital Zurich, Switzerland (Ms. Cornelia Erpenbeck; c.erpenbeck@ifp.cc) does not work according to your expectations! We will also aim at strengthening the IFP profile through fostering the Federation's publication activities. We have decided to resume the publication of a Newsletter on a regular basis, at least twice a year. In a few weeks time, you will find our new, completely revised website at http://www.ifp.cc/ in the internet. We hope the website will provide you with easily accessible and up to date information about the Federation, future congresses, and other issues on psychotherapy.
We will continue our conference policy, namely to have world conferences every four years. In addition to this, we will organize or co-sponsor various smaller meetings, seminars, and workshops on a regional level. Just recently, the 3rd Asia Pacific Conference on Psychotherapy was held in Singapore (March 12-15, 2003). Please find Dr. Douglas Kong's report on this most successful conference in this Newsletter. Furthermore, regional congresses are planned to be held in Amsterdam in 2004, Taiwan in 2005 (organizer: Prof-Jung-Kwang Wen, president, Taiwan Association of Psychotherapy), and HongKong in 2008 (organizer: Prof. Char-Nie Chen). Last but not least, it was decided in Trondheim that the 19th World Conference on Psychotherapy will take place in Japan (probably in Tokyo or Kobe) in 2006 (organizer: Prof. Tsutomu Sakuta).
As you can see from this Newsletter, we are in the process of giving the IFP a new external appearencc. From now on, our headed paper and envelopes will come in a new, fresh outlook. Over the last months, We have been working hard on the development of a new logo, too. However, we have not come to a final decision yet. On the following pages, you will find a selection of draft logos. May I invite you send me your commnets on these drafts? We would be happy to incorporate your ideas into the reconstruction of IFP's corporate identity!
Last but not least, I should like to ask you for your support: the IFP can only florish if there is lively interaction and communication amongst us. So please let me or any member of the Board know about your ideas and visions, about your activities, about your experiences. There is a rapidly growing body of knowledge and professional competence in the field of psychotherapy: please help us in seeking to ensure that clinical applications in the field of psychotherapy are informed by scientific evidence!
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