| Magyarul | Pszinapszis is a three-day event, which has been organized by university students for six years now. Having started with 300 participants in the building of the university in 1997, last year it was visited by five thousand people in the Almássy Téri Szabadidőközpont (Leisure Center of Almássy Square). Pszinapszis is not merely a conference designed for young and young-hearted people who are interested in psychology, with interesting and high-standard lectures and round-table conversations; one of the main aims of the first organizers was to bring the different therapeutic methods closer to people by ways of small-sized workshops. Through these four-hour long workshops the part-takers can not only hear about, but also experience how different methods operate: for example dance therapy, family therapy, music therapy or supervision.
We invite the visitors of the 6th Conference of Psychology in Budapest for a wandering among mirrors and images. This year there will be two venues: the Almássy Téri Szabadidőközpont, and a high school for 2 minutes walk from there. On the latter spot will the workshops take place, and we plan to start something new there in the field of lectures also. This year lectures will be presented in two English language sections with interesting topics and lecturers from Hungary and abroad, and two more scientific sections too.
The subtitle of Pszinapszis 2002 is Mirror-Images. We are going to hold mirrors in front of ourselves and the world, and we ask ourselves honestly, how much we like the image we see. Our mirrors are going to be of many kinds, as they are in real life: in the person of the lecturer and the listener the world is mirrored in a different way; the products of our civilization, different arts and fields of sciences provide us rather different images also. Facing these several different images the question rises naturally: which is the true one? What is reality? Is our freedom evident only in that we can choose our mirrors for ourselves, or we may try to put together from the image-puzzle a coherent picture, which gets as close to reality as possible?
Of course every one of us has to find the answer for him- or herself. Pszinapszis only raises questions, presents possible mirrors and images, creates space and time to wander around in Mirrorland. Lecturers and part-takers may equally have surprising experiences in this strange world operated by unususal laws, if they dare to look around bravely. Our hope is that after the three days every one is going to take home a richer and clearer image of reality. |
