Main event of the decade

Профессиональная ПсихотераПевтическая Газета  иЮль–2013 

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The First United Eurasian Congress for Psychotherapy (XIX Congress of the European 

Association for Psychotherapy and VII Pan Asian Congress for Psychotherapy) 

«Psychotherapy Without Borders: Past, Present and Future»

July 5-7, 2013, Moscow, Russia

CONgrEss PrOgrAM. MAIN PrOJECT

KEyNOTE PrEsENTATIONs ON JULy 5, 6, 7

JULY 5, 10.00 – 17.45

HALL «SURIKOV-VASNETSOV»

10.00. Opening ceremony 

10.20. Greetings

11.20. Keynote presentations

12.50. Announcements by the Organising Committee of the Congress

13.00.  Awarding of European and World certificates of Psychotherapy. 

Collective photoshooting

14.00. Keynote presentations

16.00. Coffee break

16.20. Keynote presentations 

17.45. Closing of the plenary meeting

PsyCHOTHErAPy As A sCIENCE

Alfred Pritz – professor, one of the founders and rector of the Sigmund Freud 

University, president of the World Council for Psychotherapy, general secretary 

of the European Association for Psychotherapy. Austria, Vienna.

After 200 years of research psychotherapy is moving towards beeing a 

social science. The character of this science is basically hermeneutik, it is a 

form of guided text interpretation.

The understanding of the other needs a reflexive position of the 

psychotherapist. Psychotherapy as a science is the science of subjectivity.

PsyCHOTHErAPy IN NEOTErIC TIMEs

Viktor Makarov – President of the All-Russian Professional Psychotherapeutic 

League, Vice-President of the World Council for Psychotherapy, Vice-President of the 

Asian Federation for Psychotherapy, Head of the Chair of Psychotherapy and sexology, 

Russian Medical Academy of Postgraduate Education, Professor. Russia, Moscow.

New, bio-psycho-socio-spiritual paradigm of psychotherapy, new 

possibilities within the framework of this four-part paradigm, is viewed. 

Psychotherapy in traditional, modern and neoteric society is discussed; 

originality of psychotherapy of an individual, family, group and society 

as a whole is emphasized. Views of the author on the peculiarity of 

psychotherapy in modern times are given.

DANCINg ON THE EDgE OF TIME

Adrian rhodes – President of the European Association for Psychotherapy, 

Psychoanalytic Psychotherapist, works as a psychotherapist in private practice 

and in the National Health Service. Great Britain, Manchester.

Religion/spirituality and psychotherapy look beyond the ‘now’ of 

experience. From different philosophical perspectives, they consider that 

we, living ‘on the surface’, are in reality connected to things more profound, 

meaningful and enriching that we often perceive. They share, the importance 

of looking to the past (to tradition or personal/familial history) for indications 

of meaningfulness. And both have mystery at their heart – the mystery of 

unconscious processes or the mystery of the divine. 

However, individuals – and humanity as a whole – are living now, in 

this moment, in the experience of life today. And both psychotherapy and 

religion/spirituality are there to serve them in the ‘now’.

Perspectives in theology – particularly process theology in its different 

forms – speak the human/divine interface, in which humanity is in a shared, 

unfolding experience with the divine. As human beings dance on the forward 

edge of time, both the unconscious and the divine, create and re-create in 

that process. And religion/spirituality and psychotherapy listen to the music 

against which we dance.

PsyCHOTHErAPEUTIC PArADIgM OF MENTAL ECOLOgy 

AND MENTAL MEDICINE

Pavel sidorov – Academician RAMS, Honored Science Worker RF, Director of 

Institute of Mental Medicine Northern Research Center NWB RAMS, Arkhangelsk, 

Russia.

In the article, efficiency of the synergetic approach to development of 

mental ecology and mental medicine has been grounded on the conceptual-

methodological level. It has been shown that quality of life and a health level 

are 20% predetermined by the mentality factor. There has been proposed 

the «Index of personality mental ecology» allowing to take qualitative 

and quantitative measurements of its biopsychosocial and spiritual-moral 

potential and to assess and predict a destiny course. There have been 

systematized the issues of the crisis in psychiatry and the significance of 

antipsychiatry for a startup of the contemporary Era of Psychotherapy 

that has made a revolutionary breakthrough to the prenosological field 

of public health and public conscience and changed radically the focus of 

the Ψ-mission of the state and the society from mental illnesses to mental 

health. That has provided dynamic development of the whole complex of 

neurosciences, forced establishment of social psychiatry and narcology and 

lead to birth of mental ecology and mental medicine. Separation of mental 

medicine as a unified theory of mental health promotion and treatment of 

mental illnesses has been grounded.

MODErN PrOFEssIONAL PsyCHOTHErAPy: BAsIC 

INTEgrATION VECTOr

Alexander Katkov – MD, professor, vice-president of PPL, psychotherapist of 

the European and world registration. Kazakhstan, Almaty.

In the differentiated analysis of centripetal tendencies in a psychotherapy 

the following main vectors of integration are allocated: the historical – with an 

original and cultural and historical context of development of a profession; the 

extra disciplinary – with system of codified knowledge and a modern course 

of science; the interdisciplinary – with «maternal» disciplines – psychology, 

medicine, pedagogic; the intra disciplinary – between the differentiated 

directions and psychotherapy modalities; the coherent – with adjacent 

developing practicing. Depth of study of these vectors from a position of 

philosophical, methodological, technological justification finally defines 

success of integrative movement in a modern professional psychotherapy.

THE WAy OF PsyCHOTHErAPIsT IN XXI CENTUry

Eugenijus Laurinaitis – MD, PhD, Assoc. Prof., Vilnius University, President-

elect of EAP, President, Lithuanian Psychotherapeutic Society. Vilnius, Lithuania.

Contemporary world of medicine, business and services is constantly 

influencing and pressing psychotherapy and psychotherapists, and this 

changes somehow romantic view of our work and life dramatically. From 

insurance companies there is a growing demand for evidence-based practice, 

from research – a more scientific clarity and uniformity of our work, from 

governments and ministries – stricter regulated practice rules and constant 

demand for cheaper services. At the same time patients are coming with 

more complex and diverse problems or disorders, asking very often for a 

“quick fix”. Very many of them are “well-informed” about our theories, work, 

and personalities from an all-mighty internet. Despite that many patients 

are waiting for real human experience of trust, understanding, sharing, 

emotional and spiritual support – all what happens in secure, calm place 

without a time pressure. In this place a lot of empathizing must happen 

between both participants of this unique encounter and all the conditions 

described before may ruin this attempt. 

What can be done for the sake of patients and therapists? What is the 

role of our professional community? How can we help each other? These 

and other question will be discussed, and possible answers may arise in 

common discussion.

sCIENTIFIC sPIrITUALITy: FUTUrE OF MAKINg

Pandya Chinmay – BSc, MBBS, PGDipl, MRCPsych (London), MD; pro vice 

chancellor of the Dev Sanskriti University (P.O. Shanti Kunj), director of the school 

for yoga and health, head of the international festival for yoga, culture and 

spirituality. Haridwar, India.

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