Opening the Panel: Anima Mundi: Environment and Psyche: Their Unity and Close Connection with Change

Took her Clinical Psychology PhD. degree from the Psychology Department of the Middle East Technical University (METU) in Turkey and certified from the Distant Education Program of Chicago Institute for Psychoanalysis. She participated in and contributed to the International Association for Psychoanalytic Self Psychology (IAPSP) conferences as a presenter, a discussant, and a member of an overseas organizing committee (Israel, 2014; Italy, 2024). She has publications in IJPSP (PSC) and several other international and national psychology journals. She is an international consulting editor of the Psychoanalytic Inquiry. She is affiliated with IAPSP and a founding member of and affiliated with Ankara Contemporary Psychoanalytic Psychotherapies Association, Anatolian Psychoanalytic Psychotherapies Association: A Learning Place of Self Psychology (APPA, affiliated with IAPSP as an Institute). Ruganci is currently in private practice in Turkey and Teaching at APPA and is one of the advisers of Amy Joelson (current IAPSP President) on the Executive Board.