Lavinia ¿ânculescu

Lavinia Țânculescu-Popa

Lect. Univ. Dr. - Faculty of Psychology - UHB,

Affiliate Professor - National School of Political and Administrative Studies

President of the Romanian Society of Jungian Analysis (SRAJ) and President-Elect of the Association of Industrial and Organizational Psychology (APIO)

Lavinia Țânculescu-Popa, Ph.D., is one of the first six IAAP Jungian Analysts in Romania, officially entering the association at the IAAP Kyoto Conference in 2016, working with both children and adults since 2006. She is a member of AGAP (Switzerland) and, of SRAJ and ARPA (Romania). She was the main translator for the Handbook of Analytical Psychology, edited by R. Papadopoulos (Routledge, 2006), into Romanian. Also, she is currently translating into Romanian, Interpretation in Jungian Analysis: Art and Technique, by Dr. Mark Winborn (Routledge, 2018). She is the author and co-editor of the book of interviews with senior analysts, called Beyond Persona with Jungian Analysts: Interviews on Individuation and Beginnings, published in March 2023 by Routledge.

Dr. Lavinia Țânculescu-Popa teaches in the Psychology Department at a private University in Bucharest and has academic collaborations with two other universities in Romania. Her research interests are in the areas of psychological anthropology, psychology and religion and the unfolding of the Self in both the personal and organizational life of the individual, in various cultural settings.

She has, also, more than 20 years of experience working with organizations in Romania and abroad, including 10 years as a Manager in the Human Capital Divisions of PricewaterhouseCoopers and Deloitte Consulting. She has assessed over 3500 people and assisted, from an HR perspective, over 50 companies in multiple industries.