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Anticipated publication date:
Spring 2016

Focus Country:
South Africa

About Us
This journal is published by the European Move- Many thanks to the numerous authors, to the translators, and
ment for Christian Anthropology, Psychology and especially to Michael O‘Brien. Without their commitment and
Psychotherapy in cooperation with the IGNIS-Aca- gifts this number would not exist.
demy, Kanzler-Stürtzel-Str.2, D-97318 Kitzingen.
EMCAPP as a non-institutional movement enjoys
meeting Christian scholars and practitioner in the The Board of EMCAPP:
field of Christian anthropology, psychology, psy-
chotherapy and counseling from all over the world • Francesco Cution (Italy), clinical psychologist and
and from most Christian traditions. We are focused psychotherapist, associate of the Italian Catholic Association
on bringing together key persons from different of Psychologists and Psychiatrists, president founder of the
countries. The richness of experience and back- association “Jonas is on the way“, Rome.
ground always stimulates and refreshes us. • Nicolene Joubert (South Africa) psychologist, Head of the
ICP: the Institute of Christian Psychology in Johannesburg
This magazine is free and can be downloaded from www.icp.org.za.
our website. We appreciate everyone who recom- • Rev. Andrey Lorgus (Russia), psychologist, Rector of the
mends it. Institute of Christian Psychology in Moscow, http://fapsyrou.
ru .
Per year, two issues of the journal are planned: The • Werner May (Germany), psychologist, former President of
main articles of each number will prepared by a fo- the Academy for Christian Psychology IGNIS www.ignis.de,
cus country. President of EMCAPP Board.
• Anna Ostaszewska (Poland), psychotherapist, supervisor, one
Publisher, Editor: Werner May of the founders of the Association of Christian Psychologists
Design: Juliane Thoma in Poland (ACP). Vice-President of EMCAPP Board
Interactive design, Webdesign: • Elena Strigo (Russia, city of Krasnojarsk, Siberian Region),
psychologist, psychotherapist at the Psychological
Heiko Gneuß, pro-webART Counselling Centre, member of EMCAPP Board.
http://www.pro-webART.com

Why do we have a bilingual journal?
In our movement for Christian Psychology, we meet as Christians with very different backgrounds: different churches,
different cultures, different professional trainings…
There is a common desire for the movement, but highly “multi-lingual” ideas of its realization!
Therefore, a bilingual journal is just a small reference to our multilingual voices to remind us:
• Languages are an expression of cultures, countries and of their people. By writing in two languages, we want to show our
respect to the authors of the articles, to their origin and heritage, and at the same time symbolically show respect to all the
readers in other foreign countries.
• There are many foreign languages that we do not understand. Within our own language, we intend to understand one
another, but we fail to do so quite often. To really understand one another is a great challenge, and we also want to point to
this challenge by offering a bilingual journal.
• “When languages die, knowledge about life gets lost.” (Suzanne Romaine, 2011)
• Finally, there is a pragmatic reason: As we want to have authors from one special country to write the main articles of
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every journal, it will be easier for them to distribute the journal in their own country, when it also is in their own language.