Analytical psychology has been gradually established in Romania since the first University courses of Introduction to Jungian Psychology at the Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences of the University of Bucharest in 1993, at undergraduate level. Over time, a course in Symbol Analysis was added at Master’s level in Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy.
Over the years, the students of those courses have reunited in the foundation dedicated to Carl Gustav Jung in Romania, the Romanian Association of Analytical Psychology, whose act of constitution is dated December 2000. The foundation was the work of three psychologists passionate about knowledge and complexity: Mihaela Minulescu, Petru Lisievici and Carmen Popescu.
Since 2002, training in analytical psychotherapy began to operate through a master’s program established at Titu Maiorescu University, then at Spiru Haret University, supplemented by personal analysis and training sessions offered within the R.A.A.P. to those who wanted to become professionals in analytic psychotherapy.
With the establishment of a specific legislative framework for psychology and accredited practice, training in analytical psychotherapy received the endorsement of the College of Psychologists in 2005 and was passed entirely under the direct coordination of the training association, A.R.P.A. Since 2008, students in analytical psychotherapy have been trained through a programme that mirrors the methodology of the first two years of the four-year training programme of the C. G. Jung Institute in Switzerland, Kusnacht.
Following personal analysis and graduation from the methodological and clinical programme, psychotherapists of an analytical, Jungian orientation are trained.