We are delighted to present Professor Renos Papadopoulos, another of our influential colleagues, in the Spotlight of this Bulletin. His significant contribution to the development of analytical psychology in different parts of the world and fields of scientific and psychosocial endeavour includes forging the links between clinical Jungian training and academic Jungian scholarship. The International Association for Jungian Studies (IJAS), one of the IAAP allied organisations featured in this issue, is one such project with Renos as one of its founders.
Together with Andrew Samuels, Renos Papadopoulos instigated and developed one of the world’s first MA-qualifying courses in Jungian and Post-Jungian studies at the University of Essex. Among his many roles at Essex, Renos is the Founder and Director of the ‘Centre for Trauma, Asylum and Refugees’, founder and Course Director of the MA and PhD in ‘Refugee Care’, member of the ‘Human Rights Centre’, of the ‘Transitional Justice Network’, and member of the ‘Armed Conflict and Crisis Hub’.
Renos is renowned for his work with refugees, survivors of torture, human trafficking, political violence and environmental disasters. He is a consultant to the United Nations and other international organisations involved in alleviating human suffering around the world. He lectures internationally and offers specialist trainings in this kind of psychological work.
He is the author of a number of books and papers, which have been translated into eighteen languages. His many awards include a lifetime achievement in ‘Outstanding Contribution to the field of Family Therapy and Systemic Practice’ by the European Family Therapy Association; the ‘Best International Research Impact’ by the University of Essex; awards by two Mexican Foundations for his exceptional work with vulnerable children and families in Mexico, and the ‘C.G. Jung 2022 Award for Life-time contribution in Jungian scholarship’ by the International Association for Jungian Studies. In December 2023, Papadopoulos was made a Fellow of the British Psychological Society.
It was a great pleasure for me to interview Renos Papadopoulos for this bulletin and to include here the link to the first conversation I had with him back in 2016, when I interviewed him for the IAAP News Sheet.
Emilija Kiehl
Click HERE to read Emilija Kiehl’s interview with Renos Papadopoulos.
You may also click HERE to read Emilija Kiehl’s previous interview from 2016 in the IAAP News Sheet on page 20.