- Clinical Applications of the Human Birth Theory
Co-chairs:
Paolo Fiori Nastro, past Professor of Psychiatry, Department of Human Neurosciences, Sapienza University of Rome, past PhD. Coordinator “Psychiatry: Early intervention in psychosis”, Sapienza University of Rome, Didactic Coordinator School of psychodynamic psychotherapy Bios Psychè, Rome, Italy
Luca Giorgini, Department of Neurosciences Rita Levi Montalcini University of Turin; Neuropsychiatry for Childhood-Adolescence of Ferrara, Italy.
Presenters:
Introduction to Human Birth Theory
Irene Calesini, MD, psychiatrist and psychotherapist, Rome, Italy.
Methodology of psychotherapeutic praxis
Alice Dell’Erba MD, psychiatrist and psychotherapist, Outpatient Unit of Psychiatry, 13th District, ASL Roma 1, National Health System (NHS), Rome, Italy.
School of psychodynamic psychotherapy Bios Psychè, Rome, Italy
Interpretation of dreams according to Human Birth Theory
Daniela Polese, MD, psychiatrist and psychotherapist, Department of Neuroscience, Mental Health and Sensory Organs (NESMOS), Sapienza University of Rome c/o Sant’Andrea Hospital, Unit of Pediatrics and Unit of Child Neurology and Psychiatry, Rome, Italy; Outpatient Unit of Child Neurology and Psychiatry, ASL Roma 4, National Health System (NHS), Rome, Italy; School of psychodynamic psychotherapy Bios Psychè, Rome, Italy.
Group psychotherapy based on Human Birth Theory
Martina Moneglia, MD, psychiatrist and psychotherapist, Santa Maria Nuova Hospital, NHS, Florence, Italy.
New approaches are needed for psychodynamic psychotherapy, in order to face current challenges in both national health services and private practice. During the pandemic years, the increase of psychiatric cases among adolescents and young adults claims an improvement of non-pharmacological strategies. This symposium will provide a new clinical method in psychodynamic psychotherapy derived from the Human Birth Theory, which has been formulated by the Italian psychiatrist and psychotherapist Massimo Fagioli. Given his formulation of brain/mind physiology at birth, this new approach founds the etiology of mental disorders in early human relationships. Psychotherapeutic relationships in both individual and group settings will be discussed. Speakers will introduce to clinicians the psychotherapeutic applications of Human Birth Theory in real world clinical practice. All speakers shared their training at the group psychotherapy called ‘Analisi Collettiva’ (Collective Analysis), directed for more than 40 years by Fagioli in Rome.
Irene Calesini will introduce Human Birth Theory; Alice Dell’Erba will deepen the Methodology of psychotherapeutic praxis; Daniela Polese will discuss interpretation of dreams according to the Human Birth Theory as the main therapeutic instrument; and Martina Moneglia will submit a report about Group Psychotherapy.
References
Fagioli M. Death Instinct and Knowledge (1972), L’Asino d’ Oro Edizioni, Roma 2019
Polese D, Fagioli Mar, Virgili F, Fiori Nastro P. Something must happen before first breath. BMC Med Ethics. 2021 May 12;22(1):57. doi: 10.1186/s12910-021-00624-4.
Guerrero-Gomez A, Nöthen-Garunja I, Schredl M, Homberg A, Vulcan M, Brusić A, Bonizzi C, Iannaco C. Dreaming in Adolescents During the COVID-19 Health Crisis: Survey Among a Sample of European School Students. Front Psychol. 2021 Apr 20; 12:652627. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2021.652627.
Calesini I, Physiology of Human Birth and Mental Disease, in Psychology of Health. Biopsychosocial Approach, Edited by S. George Taukeni, IntechOpen, 2018. DOI:10.5772/intechopen.82216
Calesini I, Fagioli’s human birth theory and the possibility to cure mental illness. Int. J. Env. and Health. 2017; 8:185-192. DOI: 10.1504/IJENVH.2017.086188
Maccari S, Polese D, Reynaert ML, Amici T, Morley-Fletcher S, Fagioli F. Early-life experiences and the development of adult diseases with a focus on mental illness: The Human Birth Theory. Neuroscience. 2017 Feb 7; 342:232-251. doi: 10.1016/j.neuroscience.2016.05.042. Epub 2016 May 26.
Gatti MG, Becucci E, Fargnoli F, Fagioli M, Adèn U, Buonocore G, Functional maturation of neocortex: a base of viability. J. Maternal-Fetal and Neonatal Medicine. 2012; 25(S1):101-103. DOI: 10.3109/14767058.2012.664351
- La revanche de Freud- Psychothérapie réelle ou virtuelle ? – WPA Psychoanalysis in Psychiatry Section Symposium
Jusqu’à présent, Les nouvelles ‘’pratiques thérapeutiques avancées ‘’ de la psychiatrie contemporaine, renvoyait la psychanalyse au sous-sol de la psychologie. Mais récemment, de nombreuses évaluations empiriques des psychothérapies publiées dans de prestigieuses revues scientifiques ont montré et validé l’efficacité des psychothérapies psychanalytiques et de la psychanalyse dans le soin psychiatrique. Pourquoi un tel renversement ? est-ce ‘’ la Revanche de Freud ‘’ ? Parallèlement, Nous vivons un tournant décisif dans l’histoire de la psychiatrie. Pour la première fois, l’exercice de l’acte médical peut être envisagé en dehors du contexte clinique fondée sur une rencontre concrète, personnelle du patient avec son médecin. La télé-psychiatrie’’ à distance’’, les psychothérapies ‘’virtuelles’’, grâce aux nouvelles technologies du numérique sont déjà une réalité. Rejoignant la science-fiction, se profile déjà à l’horizon la progressive substitution du psychiatre lui-même par un robot issu de l’intelligence artificielle ce qui achèvera sa désincarnation. Psychanalyse et psychiatrie sont des disciplines de la proximité et non de la distanciation. La nouvelle virtualisation des relations humaines et particulièrement des relations soignantes va nous confronter à de nouvelles impasses subjectives. Il est, alors, plus que jamais nécessaire d’entamer une réflexion sur les dimensions psychiques du soin pour lesquelles la présence humaine et corporelle effective des partenaires de l’acte clinique est aussi fondamentale qu’indispensable.
Co-Presidents:
Michel Botbol (France)
Professeur emerite de psychiatrie de l’enfant et de l’adolescent; Secrétaire aux publications de la WPA; President emerite et consultant de la WPA PIP section; Paris France
Herve Granier (France)
Psychiatre Psychanalyste; Président de la section’’ Psychanalyse en Psychiatre’’ de la WPA;
Membre de l’Association Lacanienne international; Montpellier France
Intervenants:
Mario Eduardo Costa Pereira (Bresil)
Psychiatre Psychanalyste; Professeur de psychopathologie, Departement de psychiatrie- Faculté de medicine, Université de campinas, Sao Paulo, Bresil; Membre du comité executif de la WPA PIP section
Ecouter le sujet dans une pratique psychiatrique contemporaine. Quelle formation pour cette competence fondamentale?
Herve Granier (France)
Psychiatre Psychanalyste; Président de la section’’ Psychanalyse en Psychiatre’’ de la WPA;
Membre de l’Association Lacanienne international; Montpellier France
Nouvelle clinique de la désincarnation
Hachem Tyal (Maroc)
Psychiatre Psychanalyste; Directeur et fondateur de la clinique ‘’ la villa des Lilas’’ Casablanca; President de la MADP; President d’honneur d’ALFAPSY; Membre du commité executif de la WPA PIP section; Casablanca, Maroc
La dimension du ‘’sujet’’ peut elle continuer à exister quand il s’agit de sujet ‘’ virtuel’’ ?
Point de vue de l’approche psychodynamique.’’
Jalil Bennani (Maroc)
Psychiatre Psychanalyste; Président d’honneur d’Alfapsy et de la MADP; Directeur de recherche à l’université Sophia Antipolis (Nice); Rabat, Maroc
La psychothérapie à l’épreuve de l’écoute à distance.
- Combined psychotherapies for people living with HIV/AIDS: Navigating loss, uncertainty, and meaning
Co-chairs:
Paulo Marcelo Gondim Sales, MD, MS
Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Neurobiology
The University of Alabama at Birmingham, USA
Co-Chair, WPA Section on HIV Psychiatry
Guida da Ponte, MD, PhD
Centro Hospitalar Barreiro-Montijo, Portugal
Presenters:
The mysterious case of Ms. Townsend
Zviadi Aburjania, MD
Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Neurobiology
The University of Alabama at Birmingham, USA
Life, death, and religious coping on people living with HIV: Is there a role for CBT?
Paulo Marcelo Gondim Sales, MD, MS
Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Neurobiology
The University of Alabama at Birmingham, USA
Psychodynamic perspectives to address loss, fear of uncertainty, and stigma of people living with HIV
Alba Lara, MD
Department of Psychiatry
Columbia University, USA
Meaning Centered Psychotherapy in people living with HIV
Guida da Ponte, MD, PhD
Centro Hospitalar Barreiro-Montijo, Portugal
Successful therapy with People Living with HIV (PLWH) requires a complex bio-psycho-socio-cultural assessment that permeates substance abuse, intimate relationships, social support, work, spiritual life, and overall health. As HIV leads to a chronic infection that requires longstanding suppression with antiretroviral treatment, many patients suffer from an overwhelming fear of death, uncertainty, and endure societal stigma due to historical beliefs that only certain groups can be infected by HIV, or that PLWH became infected out of poor choices they made. In this symposium, presenters will discuss unique angles through which a trained psychotherapist can combine and integrate psychotherapy modalities to foster psychophysiological responses that enable post-traumatic growth, resilience, and an improved sense of self-efficacy for PLWH. Based on a case presented by Dr. Zviadi Aburjania, Dr. Paulo Sales will explore how the cognitive behavioral model can address spiritual domains of PLWH, including death anxiety, and religious struggle, while also fostering more psychophysiological forms of religious coping. Dr. Alba Lara will elaborate on psychodynamic perspectives that allow PLWH to face loss, and overcome identity conflicts, and uncertainty. More specifically, she will review the available literature on what illness is from a societal context, which may help PLWH understand and overcome stigma. Dr. Guida da Ponte will expand on unique approaches through which meaning-centered forms of psychotherapy can enhance healthier coping mechanisms in PLWH, as the will for meaning is a transversal capacity that all human beings share to experience suffering, depression, hopelessness, and despair.
References
van Luenen, S., Garnefski, N., Spinhoven, P., Spaan, P., Dusseldorp, E., & Kraaij, V. (2018). The Benefits of Psychosocial Interventions for Mental Health in People Living with HIV: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis. AIDS and Behavior, 22(1), 9–42. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10461-017-1757-y
Van Den Beldt, H. M., Ruble, A. E., Welton, R. S., & Crocker, E. M. (2021). Contemporary Supportive Therapy: A Review of History, Theory, and Evidence. Psychodynamic psychiatry, 49(4), 562–590. https://doi.org/10.1521/pdps.2021.49.4.562
- Psychotherapy Training for Psychiatric Trainees: Practical Recommendations for Impactful Change
Presenter 1 (Chair): Jiann Lin LOO, MD, MRCPsych, DrPsych
Wrexham Maelor Hospital, Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board, Wrexham, United Kingdom
The Google Cymru Peer Supervision in Psychotherapy (GC-PSP): Does it impact psychotherapy training in North Wales?
Presenter 2 (Co -Chair): Iizax Gisela RAMÍREZ-ESPINOSA, MD
Sociedad Mexicana de Neurología y Psiquiatría (Mexican Society of Neurology and Psychiatry), Mexico
Third-Wave Psychotherapy Strategies and Clinical Skills that could Help Psychiatry Residents in their Training.
Presenter 3: Muhammad Adib BAHAROM, MD, DrPsych
Department of Psychiatry and Mental Health, Selayang Hospital, Selangor, Malaysia.
Title: Learning How to do a Psychodynamic Formulation during Case-based Discussion among Psychiatric Trainees in Malaysia
Presenter 4: Imane SALIHI, MD
Psychiatric University Centre, Tarek Bnou Ziad, 20250, Casablanca, Morocco
Title: Psychotherapy Training Among Psychiatrists and Psychologists in Morocco
Given the burden of mental health morbidities, especially in the era of a pandemic, there is an increasing need for the provision of psychotherapy. This imperative underscores the importance of competency in psychotherapy for all mental health providers, especially future psychiatrists who are tasked with direct and collaborative care. Most psychiatric training programs have existing frameworks outlining the training and assessment of psychotherapy, although the delivery approach may differ based on the need of the population served and resource availability. The disruption caused by the COVID-19 pandemic has significantly changed the training of psychotherapy, integrating virtual learning models and advances in blended learning technology. Nevertheless, even virtual training may not be readily accessibile due to different challenges, such as availability of local faculty supervisors, which remains an irreplaceable part of training. In addition, the ability to translate and adapt psychotherapeutic practices designed elsewhere to local social-cultural settings is another challenge faced by trainees. However, just as the Chinese Proverb says, « a thousand miles begins with a single step », impactful change can occur because of careful crafted local initiatives. Symposium presenters from Europe, Asia, America, and Africa will share their innovative local efforts in improving psychotherapeutic training in their respective locality.
- History of Psychotherapy
Chair:
Norman Sartorius, M.D., Ph.D.
President of the Association for the Improvement of Mental Health Programs
Past President, World Psychiatric Association
Co-chair:
Driss Moussaoui, M.D.
President, International Federation for Psychotherapy
Past President, World Association for Social Psychiatry
Professor Emeritus, Faculty of Medicine, Casablanca, Morocco
Presenters:
Presenter 1: Driss Moussaoui, M.D.
President, International Federation for Psychotherapy
Past President, World Association for Social Psychiatry
Professor Emeritus, Faculty of Medicine, Casablanca, Morocco
Psychotherapy in the Arab-Muslim Civilization
Presenter 2: Ulrich Schnyder, M.D.
Past President, International Federation for Psychotherapy
History of the International Federation for Psychotherapy
Presenter 3: Franz Caspar, M.D.
Board Member, International Federation for Psychotherapy
Past President, International Federation for Psychotherapy
Aaron Beck, the Man, and his Achievements
Presenter 4: Jalil Bennani, M.D.
History of Psychoanalysis in Morocco.
- Clinical examples of psychodynamics used in everyday interactions – A symposium sponsored by the American Academy of Psychodynamic Psychiatry and Psychoanalysis
Co-Chair: Sherry Katz-Bearnot, M.D.
Columbia University (USA)
Co-Chair: Jennifer Downey, MD
Columbia University (USA)
Presenter 1: Erin Crocker, M.D.
University of Iowa (USA)
Presenter 2: Sherry Katz-Bearnot, M.D.
Columbia University (USA)
Presenter 3: Randon Welton, M.D.
Northeast Ohio Medical University (USA)
Presenter 4: Timothy Sullivan, M.D.
Northwell health/Staten Island University Medical Center (USA)
Abstract: Psychodynamic psychiatrists have a collection of teachable skills that allow clinicians to create a more comprehensive view of patients, thereby establishing a more durable, empathic connection. We will demonstrate how a particular focus on aspects of the patient’s history, including aspects that may be out of the patient’s current awareness, may be integrated with other relevant clinical data to provide a deeper understanding of the patient’s difficulties. We will demonstrate the utility of such insights in crafting solutions that are effective and acceptable to the patient, and lead to the patient feeling better understood and engaging more actively in the therapeutic process.
- Broaching the development of a curriculum to address racial, ethnic, and cultural factors for psychiatry trainees
Co-chairs:
Anne E. Ruble, M.D.
Associate Director for Residency Training
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Norma L. Day-Vines, Ph.D.
Associate Dean for Diversity and Faculty Development
Johns Hopkins University School of Education
Presenters:
Anne E. Ruble, M.D.
Associate Director for Residency Training
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Baltimore, Maryland
Norma L. Day-Vines, Ph.D.
Associate Dean for Diversity and Faculty Development
Johns Hopkins University School of Education
Baltimore, Maryland
Clio Franklin, M.D.
General Psychiatry Resident
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Baltimore, Maryland
Mary Beth Cogan, RN, MPH, ABD
Doctoral Candidate
Administrative Director
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Baltimore, Maryland
ABSTRACT:
Research indicates that a mental health provider’s consideration of racial and cultural factors in the experiences of minoritized clients enhances provider credibility, the depth of client disclosure, a willingness to return for follow-up sessions, and more favorable treatment outcomes (e.g., Knox, et al., 2003: Sue & Sundberg, 1996). Inattention to issues of race and ethnicity can perpetuate cultural bias by imposing a dominant cultural imperative on minority clients (Constantine & Sue, 2005; Helms & Cook, 1999). Research has shown that clinician behavior impacts cultural concealment or instances in which clients withhold intimate information about their social and cultural identities or about their encounters with oppression and marginalization results in less effective treatment outcomes, compared to those who were more forthcoming about their cultural values and viewpoints (Drinane, et al., 2018). A review of the literature showed that no currently existing psychotherapy curricula explicitly addresses the skills to broach racial, ethnic, and cultural issues or the nuance of intersectional dimensions of the patient’s experience.
Dr. Ruble will discuss the creation of a broaching curriculum designed to teach psychiatric residents the skills to have challenging conversations about race, ethnicity, and culture within the context of supportive psychotherapy. Participants will learn from Dr. Day-Vines about an empirically supported multidimensional model of broaching behaviors with corresponding case illustrations and videotaped demonstrations of skills used in the exploration of patients’ culture-specific concerns. Data from the mixed-method analysis of the program implementation will be presented by Ms. Cogan. Teacher/learner perspectives will be shared by Drs. Ruble and Franklin.
References:
- Constantine, M. G., & Sue, D.W. (2005). Strategies for Building Multicultural Competence.Hoboken, N.J: Wiley.
- Day‐Vines, N. L., Cluxton‐Keller, F., Agorsor, C., Gubara, S., & Otabil, N. A. A. (2020). The multidimensional model of broaching behavior. Journal of Counseling and Development, 98(1), 107-118. doi:10.1002/jcad.12304
- Day-Vines, N.L., Cluxton-Keller, F., Agorsor, C., & Gubara, S. (2021). Strategies for Broaching the Subjects of Race, Ethnicity and Culture. Journal of Counseling and Development, 99, 348-357
- Drinane, J.M., Owen, J., & Tao, K.W. (2018). Cultural concealment and therapy ouutcomes. Journal of Counseling Psychology, 65(2), 239-246.
- Helms, J. E., & Cook, D. A. (1999). Using race and culture in counseling and psychotherapy: Theory and process. Boston: Allyn & Bacon.
- Knox, S., Burkard, A.W., Suzuki, L.A., & Ponterotto, J.G. (2003). African American and European American therapists experiences of addressing race and cross-racial psychotherapy dyads. Journal of Counseling Psychology, 50, 466-481.
- Sue, D., & Sundberg, N. D. (1996). Research and research hypotheses about effectiveness in intercultural counseling. In P. B. Pedersen, J. G. Draguns, W. J. Lonner, & J. E. Trimble (Eds.), Counseling across cultures (4th ed., pp. 323–352). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
8. Dynamic Psychiatry and Mental Health– a World Association for Dynamic Psychiatry (WADP) sponsored symposium
Co-Chairs:
M. Ammon (Germany)
H. Tyal (Morocco)
M Ammon (Germany)
Dynamic Psychiatry and Mental Health
H. Tyal (Morocco)
TBD
M Schmolke (Germany)
Dynamic Psychiatry and Intersubjectivity
Sieglinde Bast (Germany)
General Psychosomatic Medicine or the Loss of the Core of Being
9. Verbal and nonverbal psychotherapy- Interorganizational Symposium sponsored by the WADP and WPA Psychoanalysis in Psychiatry Section
Co-chairs:
M Botbol (France)
H. Granier (France)
M. Ammon (Germany)
The Importance of Non-verbal Creative Dimensions in the Dynamic Psychiatry Treatment Concept
Gabriele von Bulow (Germany)
The Role of Language in Non-Verbal Psychotherapy Methods
M Botbol (France)
Individual Psychoanalytic Drama
H Granier (France)
Sublimation in Psychoanalysis
10. Wisdom Training and Wisdom Psychotherapy
Co-Chairs:
D. Jeste (USA)
M. Linden (Germnany)
Presenters:
Prof. Igor Grossmann, Ph.D.
Wisdom and Culture Laboratory, University of Waterloo,
Waterloo, Canada
Prof. Dilip Jeste. M.D.
Department of Psychiatry
University of California San Diego
Prof. Rasool Kord Noghabi
Department of Psychology, Bu-Ali Sina University,
Hamedan, Iran
Prof. Dr. Michael Linden
Charité University Medicine Berlin
Abstract:
Over the last fifty years psychological research has demonstrated that wisdom is important for mastery of life, is a resilience factor in coping with adversities, and is associated with well-being. Wisdom can also be enhanced, suggesting a role for wisdom training and wisdom psychotherapy in clinical psychology, psychiatry, psychotherapy, and overall mental healthcare. Still, basic and translational research in this field is missing. There are only a few scientifically elaborated approaches on how to improve wisdom in persons who are confronted with stressors and dilemmas in life and need to boost their wisdom capacities. This symposium brings together international researchers to discuss new, evidence-based approaches to foster wisdom. Scholars come from diverse backgrounds and focus on different applications and technical approaches. The question is what can be learned from basic research and how the presented concepts can be translated into psychotherapy.
References:
1. Grossmann, I., Dorfman, A., Oakes, H., Santos, H. C., Vohs, K. D., & Scholer, A. A. (2021). Training for wisdom: The distanced self-reflection diary method. Psychological Science, 32, 381–394
2. Lee EE, Bangen KJ, Avanzino JA, Chun Hou B, Ramsey M, Eglit G, Liu J, Tu XM, Paulus M, Jeste DV (2020) Outcomes of Randomized Clinical Trials of Interventions to Enhance Social, Emotional, and Spiritual Components of Wisdom a Systematic Review and Meta-analysis. JAMA Psychiatry, 77, 925-935. doi:10.1001/jamapsychiatry.2020.0821
3. Kurd Noqabi R, Asoodeh M (2021). The Effectiveness of Wisdom-Therapy on EFL Teachers’ Occupational Burnout. Iranian Journal of Learning and Memory, 4, 15-28
4. Arnold C, Linden M (2023) Wisdom Therapy in Overcoming Trauma and Burdens of Life. For publication in: Ferrari M, Munroe M (eds) Post-Traumatic Growth to Psychological Well-Being: Coping Wisely with Adversity. Springer New York