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Good morning and a very warm welcome to you all and thank you for your interest in this conference. In particular, I would like to greet Marianne Müller. For those who are not members of the IAAP, Marianne is the President of the International Association of Analytical Psychology - Herzlich willkommen, Marianne. I also want to mention that Tom Kelly, the former president of the IAAP and Misser Berg, Vice President of the IAAP are here as well. And then, of course, Martin Schmidt from London, who is the Honorary Secretary of the IAAP. Welcome to you. We feel very honoured that you made the effort to come.
This year marks the 40th Anniversary of the foundation of the Association of Jungian Analysts, AJA for short. We have been celebrating throughout the year, starting with a joint lunch in January and the opening of an art exhibition at our centre, which has rotated every three months. It was impressive to see how our colleagues express themselves, not just in words, but also in their paintings, photos and other art work. We then had the Summer School, during which we thought about the theme of ‘Remembering and Forgetting’ as the focal point of the year, which was dedicated to this topic. It emanated from a paper by Gerhard Adler, who was instrumental in the foundation of AJA. Incidentally, the UK is celebrating Remembrance Day today, a day of commemoration and reconciliation.
The year did not start well, though. Richard Wainwright, one of our highly esteemed members, died suddenly on 16th January. Richard, as well as other AJA members, had worked with our Ukrainian colleagues for many years to help with training, and he remained faithfully committed to his work there throughout turbulent years. Our Ukrainian friends sent us touching accounts of how Richard had moved them. As a result, a closer connection between AJA and the Ukrainian group grew and we are very happy to have three colleagues from the Ukraine present here as our guests.
As I talk about remembering, I woul