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Dear Colleagues,
We are grateful to the IJP for the opportunity to address the psychoanalytic community and to speak about the situation in the Ukrainian Psychoanalytic Society (UPS) and in Ukraine in general.
The UPS, an IPA study group, was established in its current format in 2016; however, the prior history of the psychoanalytic movement in Ukraine is much longer (Pushrakeva and Romanov 2000). Currently, there are 16 direct IPA members in our society, of which four are training analysts and two more are also authorized to conduct training analysis; 28 candidates are being trained at the UPS. At the IPA, our group is overseen by the Sponsorship Committee, which comprises Ingo Focke, Solvi Kristiansen and Alexander Janssen.
Until very recently, we could assume that the development of the UPS, and the development of psychoanalysis in Ukraine in compliance with IPA standards, was progressing quite successfully. The Society had developed training regulations; the third group of the theoretical programme for candidates was already underway; the UPS held annual conferences, which were attended by both analysts from Western countries and colleagues from neighbouring ones - Russia, Belarus, Moldova, Armenia, Georgia, Lithuania, etc. The plan was to set up a child psychoanalysis section. In Ukraine, there is already one child psychoanalyst, while two more direct IPA members and one candidate are completing their studies in the framework of the IPA project on child and adolescent psychoanalysis under the auspices of the European Psychoanalytic Institute. Members of the society and regional groups conducted multi-year programmes with international colleagues: the Kleinian Seminar with the support of Melanie Klein Trust (see Teaching in Ukraine); the Collaboration Programme with German Psychoanalytic Institutes (including the Karl Abraham Berlin Psychoanalytic Institute, Mainz Psychoanalytic Institute and Tübingen Institute); an Infant Observation Programme supported by trainer