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The Istanbul neuropsychoanalysis family has extended its interdisciplinary and international connections this year, building collaborations with the Turkish Association of Cognitive and Behavioral Psychotherapies, the International Task Force for Common Language, the Association of Psychoanalysis and Psychoanalytic Psychotherapies in Istanbul, and the Trieste Neuropsychoanalysis Study Group in Italy. In line with our principle to unite polarities and to improve “common language” among specialists from various disciplines and countries, the activities stated below were carried out:
The president of the Turkish Association of Cognitive and Behavioral Psychotherapies in Istanbul (kdtd.org), Prof. Mehmet Sungur, psychiatrist-psychotherapist at Marmara University Hospital, former president of the European Association of Behavioral and Cognitive Therapy (EABCT), and Task Force member of the Accreditation Committee of EABCT, introduced to our neuropsychoanalysis group the project of Common Language in Psychotherapy procedures (). As a member of the International Task Force of the project, he described in detail how the absence of a common language for psychotherapy procedures leads different therapists to use different terms to describe the same procedure and/or the same term to describe different procedures. This confusion influences both professionals and patients. The project is aimed to develop a shared language that would reduce confusion and improve the scientific study of psychotherapies. This collaboration between our group and the Task Force is potentially fruitful in future. We believe that the integration of different languages of various schools of thought
will later facilitate the integration of mind-body studies. What we are looking at is the same, only how we name it is different, at least for now. The Task Force invites your contributions, which will be included in a book for psychotherapy procedures. Relevant informa