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Jan Wiener and Catherine Crowther have been travelling to Russia and elsewhere in Eastern Europe for over 20 years for the ‘router' training programme on behalf of the International Association for Analytical Psychology (IAAP). During this time they have taught, lectured, supervised, selected and examined candidates for training as Jungian analysts. They have witnessed the growth from a few individuals to flourishing teaching programmes, developing groups of therapists and independent societies of qualified psychoanalysts within the IAAP.
This is in itself an achievement and the book they have edited and contributed to describes something of this extraordinary journey. It comprises articles from 20 contributors around the world, from both sides of the training programmes. In addition to the introduction, the authors have written the final chapter, summarizing some of the insights, ideas and difficulties encountered in training, and asking what we have learned from them. ‘Because the region of our own involvement has looked east from London', they write in their introduction, ‘we have not done justice … to the substantial development of Jungian work in South America or North Africa, and we regret these and other absences'. These areas are not however ignored, and articles also include work in Latin America and the Far East.
All those who have taken part in router training, whether as trainers or trainees, have attested to the experiences being life-changing. The authors' words, ‘we feel that our project of setting up and seeing through the IAAP training programme for routers in Russia has been one of the most rewarding, moving, and eye-opening experiences of our personal and professional lives', are echoed in each chapter. All the contributors have clearly been opened up emotionally, intellectually and imaginatively through their work, as their preconceptions and learned attitudes were questioned and challenged. The achievements are heightened by the difficulties and c