Szil Péter jogosulatlanul használja a pszichoterapeuta megnevezést

Szil Péter nincs nyilvántartásba véve sem pszichológusként, sem pszichoterapeutaként, Svédországban működési engedéllyel nem rendelkezik.

Ennek következtében az Országos Egészségügyi és Népjóléti Hivatalnak nincs információja képzettségéről és szakmai tapasztalatairól. Egyértelmű, hogy nem végzett munkát szabályos szakmai keretek között.

Svédországban sosem létezett Északi Szabadegyetem (Fris Universitetet Nord, FUN) néven törvényes egyetem, vagy akkreditált oktatási intézmény.

Sem az Országos Egészségügyi és Népjóléti Hivatal, sem a Svéd Országos Felsőoktatási Intézet, akiket megkérdeztek ebben az ügyben, nem tudnak semmilyen információval szolgálni erről az intézményről.

Üdvözlettel:

Ene Berglin
Főosztályvezető


Socialstyrelsen
SE-106 30 Stockholm
Sweden
Street address Ralambsvägen 3

Internet http://www.socialstyrelsen.se

Peter Szil is not licensed/registered Psychologist, or Psychoterapist in Sweden. In consequence, The National Board of Health and Welfare has no information about his training or about his working experiences. Obviously he has not been working in a regulated profession.

There has never been a standard university or otherwise accredited school named Free Nordic University, (Fria Universitetet Nord, FUN) in Sweden.

Neither the National Board of Health and Welfare nor the Swedisch National Agency of Higher Education, that has been consulted in this matter, has any knowledge of or can find any information about this institution.

Yours sincerely,

Ene Berglin
Higher Administrative Officer

Socialstyrelsen
SE-106 30 Stockholm
Sweden
Street address Ralambsvägen 3

Fria Universitetet Norden does not have and never has had accreditation to deliver any higher education degree such as psychologist or psychoterapist.

For more information I recommend you to contact Högskoleverket, the Swedish National Agency for Higher Education www.hsv.se. The Agency is our National Recognition Information Center (NARIC) and is in contact with, among others, Magyar Ekvivalencia és Információs Központ, Oktatási Minisztérium.

I hope that you will find a solution to this delicate matter.

Best regards,

Frédérique Lémery

cc to Swedish National Agency for Higher Education

RPC or Riksföreningen PsykoterapiCentrum is an organisation for authorized psychotherapists with a psychodynamic/psychoanalytic training but we also have some student or supporting members.

In Sweden we have strict rules for those who want to be authorized psychotherapists, maybe similar to the rules in Hungary. Before you start the training for becoming a psychotherapist, you must have a training and practice as a psychologist or psychiatrist, or if you are trained as social worker, priest or nurse you can add a basic psychotherapist training before you can enter the educations that are the basis for authorization. Only a few institutions have training programs that are qualified enough to give the basis for the authorization that the state institution Socialstyrelsen give and supervise. In Swedish the authorization is called "legitimation" or "leg" for short. If we work within healthcare we have to have "legitimation" or be in training with the support of a supervisor. Within healthcare the titles of psychologist or psychotherapist are protected by the law.

In Sweden we have a big problem with people who call themselves psychologists or psychotherapists but who can escape the law by claiming that they are not working with disturbed people, "only with people who want personal development". But their patients don't know this limitation.

I'm sorry to inform you that I think you and your organization have a problem concerning Peter Szil. I have never heard his name and neither have the collegues that I have asked. And we have never heard of "Fria Universitetet Nord". If it was some institution for studies, it was absolutely not a University in the real sense, and not with the authority to give training for psychologists or psychotherapists. None of the different "modalities of psychotherapy" that are mentioned have the status to give an education that may lead to an authorization as a psychotherapist. "Diplomas" are given to shorter educations. The publishing house of ICA is mostly known for popular versions on cooking or health advise, not for professional literature.

This is as much of an answer that I can give. RPC is not an institution for education or whith any possibility to control what kind of activity Peter Szil has had in Sweden. If you want more information about training programs and "legitimation" in Sweden you could ask someone at Socialstyrelsen, the state organisation for control of health care workers. See their homepage: www.socialstyrelsen.se

Yours sincerely

Lena Roos
Leg psychologist, leg psychotherapist
Secretary in Riksföreningen PsykoterapiCentrum

My name is Géza Juhász, founding member of Habeas Corpus Munkacsoport (HCM, Habeas Corpus Working Group) - a legal advocacy organization in Budapest, Hungary since 1996.

Please help me clarify a situation involving Peter Szil, who claimed to have received his basic training and diploma in psychology/psychotherapy in your institution - Free Nordic University - in 1983.

Peter Szil has introduced himself to us and to the civil rights circles of Hungary in 2003 as a psychotherapist. In Hungary to become a psychotherapist first you have to receive a degree in psychology, so naturally we believed he was a psychologist too. He convinced me and our organization HCM in 2004 to apply for European Union and Hungarian State funds - the budget totalling 216.881 euro - to support a certain program he claimed to be an expert of. In the applications we called him psychologist and psychotherapist.

We trusted him and asked no documents from him at the time to prove his schooling and his professional experiences. Since between 1998 and 2005 I was the director of HCM, I signed all contracts, so I am responsible for their contents.

Problems and questions arose around the validity of the program in 2005, and later more questions were asked about his diploma and professional experience. In January of 2006 he stated the following about his degree:

"Officially I have received my diploma in psychotherapy in 1983 in the Free Nordic University".

Dear Mr. Torbjörn Fjellström and Siv Mozard, up to day Peter Szil has not shown us this diploma, and we do not know what this diploma stands for, since he refused to go into details about it. Please help us and let us know more about this matter. Has Peter Szil - who was born in 1951, Budapest - received basic university training, and then a diploma in psychology/psychotherapy in your school in 1983? Could you please tell us what your institution was credited for at the time in Sweden? Was it a standard university, like all other universities? Was there any precondition set to enter your program? The students entering your program had to have basic university training and degree from other institutions, or your program gave basic training and degree to them? How long have this training last? How many hours did this training involve?

Dear Mr. Torbjörn Fjellström and Siv Mozard, I am sorry to have to burden you with these questions, but I have to see clearly in this matter.

Hope to receive your reply soon, wishing you, and your institution all the best, and thank you for your help and patience in this matter,

Géza Juhász

Please help me clarify a situation involving Peter Szil, who was born in 1951, Budapest. Peter Szil claimed to have received his basic training and diploma in psychology/psychotherapy at Free Nordic University, (Fria Universitetet Nord) Sweden in 1983, adding, that the training he had participated in has ceased to exist since. He convinced me and our organization HCM in 2004 to apply for European Union and Hungarian State funds---the budget totalling 216.881 euro---to support a certain program he claimed to be an expert of. We trusted him and asked no documents from him at the time to prove his schooling and his professional experiences.

At the beginning of 2006 questions arose concerning his professional background and education, but he refused to show us his diploma, or answer our questions.

Dear Leif Pagrotsky, Could you please tell us what this institution (Free Nordic University) had been credited for in the Swedish educational system in 1983. Was it authorized to issue university degrees and diplomas in psychology/psychotherapy? Was it a standard university, like all other universities? The students entering the programs of FUN had to have basic university training and degree from other institutions, or the program itself gave basic training and degree to them? How long have the training last? How many hours did the training involve?

Hope to receive your reply soon, wishing you all the best, and thank you for your help and patience in this matter,

Géza Juhász

Please help me clarify a situation involving Peter Szil, who was born in 1951, Budapest, Hungary. Peter Szil claimed to have received his basic training and diploma in psychotherapy at Free Nordic University, (Fria Universitetet Nord, fun) Sweden in 1983, adding, that the training he had participated in has ceased to exist since.

Peter Szil has introduced himself to us and to the civil rights circles of Hungary in 2003 as a psychotherapist. In Hungary to become a psychotherapist first you have to receive a degree in psychology (or in psychiatry), so naturally we believed he was a psychologist too.

He convinced me and our organization HCM in 2004 to apply for European Union and Hungarian State funds---the budget totalling 216.881 euro---to support a certain program he claimed to be an expert of. In the applications we called him psychologist and psychotherapist. We trusted him and asked no documents from him at the time to prove his schooling and his professional experiences. Since between 1998 and 2005 I was the director of HCM, I signed all contracts, so I am responsible for their contents.

In his CV attached to the European Commission Daphne II. Programme Peter Szil has written the following:

[after 1974] `... I began to study Pedagogy and Psychology at the University of Stockholm and followed a course of Film Media in Teaching at the Swedish Academy of Dramatic Arts. In 1979 I began my training for psychotherapist in Sweden and the United States, which I formally finalized in 1983. Over the following years I kept on assisting to various trainings in teaching and communication skills, different modalities of psychotherapy (Gestalt therapy, Bioenergetics, counselling for couples, Neurolinguistic Programming, psychodrama, Transactional Analysis, Clownanalyse, music therapy) and bodywork (massage, kinesiology etc) in Sweden, USA, England, Norway and France. Parallel to my main work as a practicing psychotherapist for individuals, couples and groups I from the beginning kept a foot in the world of lecturing, teaching and the training of professionals, as well as in the publishing of writings related to my work, both as an author myself and as advisor to the major Swedish publishing house "ICA" between 1981 and 1989. (...) At the same time I was one of the pioneers of the anti-sexist Men's Movement in Sweden. The network for the creation and support of consciousness-raising groups for men I contributed to organize at that time became the core from which crisis-centres for men and treatment programs for violent men grew out over the years.'

At the beginning of 2006 questions arose concerning his professional background and education. In January of 2006 he stated the following about his degree: "Officially I have received my diploma in psychotherapy in 1983 in the Free Nordic University", but he refused to show us his diploma, or answer our questions.

Dear Sir/Madam, Could you please tell us what this Institution (Free Nordic University) had been credited for in the Swedish educational system in 1983? Was it a standard university, like all other universities? Was there any precondition set to enter the program? The students entering the program had to have basic university training and degree from other institutions, or the program program gave basic training and degree to them? How long have the training last? How many hours did the training involve?

Dear Sir/Madam, please confirm to us that Peter Szil received basic university training and diploma in psychology/psychotherapy in the Swedish educational system, and then he received his license/permission from your Institution to practice psychoterapy in Sweden.

Could you also confirm to us the statement of Peter Szil---quoted above---about his practicing psychotherapy for individuals, couples and groups, lecturing, teaching and training professionals in Sweden.

I am sorry to have to burden you with these questions, but I have to see clearly in this matter.

Hope to receive your reply soon, wishing you, and your institution all the best, and thank you for your help and patience in this matter.

Yours sincerely

Géza Juhász