Caring for the Soul

Ancient Recipes of Bulgaria by Evdokia Krusteva

Ancient Recipes of Bulgaria

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In light of exploring the mentality of the Bulgarian people, the following is a personal account of the pressures and techniques used by the Bulgarian Secret Services during communism. The report shows testimony to how agents directly or indirectly got themselves involved by using three basic strategies according to the victim:

1. “‘Soft’ breaking of the personal will by method of blackmail, transformation of refusal into ‘consent’ and making the free personality into an instrument deprived of will in the hands of the secret services;

2. Brutal suspension from scientific work, deprivation of the scholar to find any employment position, including the lowest qualified employment for him to earn his family’s daily bread, placement of his family-members to various methods of pursuit and repression;

3. Savage violation on the scholar, on grounds of definite ideological statements, provided by law, by sending him to a hospital for the mentally ill, to a labor camp for ‘re-education’ by means of primitive and sweat physical labor or at prison’s special rigid regime.”

Iankov, I. Psychology of Law Value in Communist and Post-Communist Bulgaria. First International Conference on Therapeutic Jurisprudence. (Winchester, United Kingdom of Great Britain. July 8-11, 1998): 2-5.

COOKBOOK: “COOKING TRADITIONS OF BULGARIA” JUST PUBLISHED

For many years, friends and partners have been asking about Bulgarian cuisine. What does it include? Does it taste good? What are our favorites and so on? It has been our experience that Bulgarian cuisine is very attractive to the Northern American tastes. Actually, we do not have a single friend or partner who have visited us and worked with us in Bulgaria who did not fall in love with our food.

After many requests, Kathryn has taken a personal interest in collecting our favorite Bulgarian recipes and putting them in this small cookbook. Now, these are much different than the modern Bulgarian diet that today includes fast food restaurants and junk food snacks. The book has 25 personally customized recipes of authentic Bulgarian cuisine. Not only that they carry the typical Bulgarian flavor, but each recipe comes with a personal story. You will enjoy cooking them with your family and friends most of all, you will enjoy serving and sharing them with everyone.

According to the Bulgarian Association of Psychotherapy, the main psychotherapeutic modalities in Bulgaria include the following:

Analytical/Jungian Therapy: represented by the Bulgarian Society of Analytical Psychology

Cognitive-Behavior Therapy: represented by the Bulgarian Association of Cognitive- Behavior Therapy founded in 1998

Brief Therapy: represented by represented by the Society of Brief Therapists in Bulgaria founded in 1994

Hypnosis: represented by the Bulgarian Association of Hypnosis founded in 1999

Music Therapy: represented by the Bulgarian Association of Music Therapy (BAMT) founded in 1996

Neo-Reichian Psychotherapy: represented by the Bulgarian Neo-Reichian Society (BNRS) founded in 1999

Solutions-oriented Therapy: represented by individual members

Positive Psychotherapy: represented by the Society of Positive Psychotherapy in Bulgaria founded in 1993

Psychoanalysis/Psychoanalytical: represented by the Bulgarian Psychoanalytic Society founded in 1991 and individual members belonging to the Psychoanalytic Institute for Eastern Europe, the International Psychoanalytical Association, and others

Psychodrama: represented by the Bulgarian Society for Psychodrama and Group Therapy founded in 1990

Family Therapy: represented by the Bulgarian Association of Family Therapy founded in 1998

(Bulgarian Association of Psychotherapy, Sofia. www.psychotherapy-bg.org. January, 2012.)