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Dear colleagues and friends,
I am a fortunate person because today Istanbul Psychoanalytical Association, of which I am one of the co-founders, has been accepted as a component society of the IPA, and here I receive this document on behalf of our association. My colleagues and me, feel very honored of having being acknowledged as full member of the international psychoanalytical community. We are grateful for your generous support and guidance, without which we could not attain our objectives in our psychoanalytic adventure.
Actually it is not only me and my colleagues in Turkey, we, the psychoanalysts all around the world, are fortunate. We are fortunate because being a psychoanalyst is a great privilege for the treasure of knowledge left to us by Sigmund Freud and his followers that help us grasp the mysteries and paradoxes of the human psyche. Moreover, actually this theory helps us to understand the destructiveness of the human being.
Psychoanalytic theory and practice has continually evolved and has acquired new dimensions. Many people, institutions and countries have