Andrew Samuels is acknowledged internationally as one of the leading commentators on politics from a psychological point of view. He works as a political adviser to leaders, parties and activist groups. He is Professor of Analytical Psychology at the University of Essex and holds honorary professorships at New York, London and Roehampton Universities. Clinically, he seeks to integrate Jungian and post-Jungian, humanistic, and relational psychoanalytic approaches. He is the Chair of the United Kingdom Council for Psychotherapy. His books have been translated into 19 languages and include Jung and the Post-Jungians (198), The Father (1986), A Critical Dictionary of Jungian Analysis (1986), The Plural Psyche (1989), Psychopathology (1989), The Political Psyche (1993), and the award-winning Politics on the Couch (2001).

His presentation during the Conference:

• Lecture: Imagine - Politics! Transforming Aggressive Conflict in Political and Personal Contexts

Professor Maria C. Gilbert is a UKCP registered Integrative Psychotherapist, a Registered Clinical Psychologist and a BACP accredited supervisor, who also holds the ECP. She is currently joint head of department with Vanja Orlans of the Integrative Department, programme leader of the MSc in Integrative Psychotherapy and a joint programme leader of the MA/MSc in Coaching Psychology, at Metanoia Institute in West London. She is a visiting professor at Middlesex University in the United Kingdom. She has co-authored a book on supervision with Ken Evans entitled “Psychotherapy Supervision” (2000) and a manual entitled “On being a supervisee : creating learning partnerships” (2005)with Michael Carroll.

Lecutre: Supervision as a reflective process : integration in practice

Prof. PhDr. Stanislav Kratochvíl, CSc. Chief clinical psychologist, Psychiatric Hospital in Kroměříž, and Professor Emeritus of  clinical psychology, Palacky University  in Olomouc, Czech Republic.  Author of 10 Czech books, reflecting his professional experience, six of which have been translated to  Polish:  Podstawy psychoterapii, Terapia malzenska, Leczenie zaburzen seksualnych,  Hipnoza, podejscie experimentalne, Hipnoza kliniczna, Zagadnienia grupowej terapii nerwic. Honourary member  of Polish Psychiatric Society and Polish Therapeutic Society (English: Foundations of psychotherapy, Marital therapy, Therapy of sexual dysfunctions, Hypnosis, experimental approach, Clinical hypnosis, Group psychotherapy of neuroses).

Paul L. Wachtel, Ph.D. is CUNY Distinguished Professor in the doctoral program in clinical psychology at City College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. He did his undergraduate studies at Columbia, received his doctorate in clinical psychology at Yale, and is a graduate of the postdoctoral program in psychoanalysis and psychotherapy at New York University, where he is also a faculty member. Dr. Wachtel has lectured and given workshops throughout the world on psychotherapy, personality theory, and the applications of psychological theory and research to the major social issues of our time. He has been a leading voice for integrative thinking in the human sciences and was a cofounder of the Society for the Exploration of Psychotherapy Integration. Among his books are Action and Insight; The Poverty of Affluence; Family Dynamics in Individual Psychotherapy (with Ellen F. Wachtel); Therapeutic Communication; Psychoanalysis, Behavior Therapy, and the Relational World; and Race in the Mind of America: Breaking the Vicious Circles Between Blacks and Whites. His most recent book is Relational Theory and the Practice of Psychotherapy.

His presentations during the Conference:

• Lecture: Psychotherapy Integration and Evidence-Based Practice: Confusions in Theory, Practice, and Research
• Workshop: A Relational Perspective on Psychotherapy Integration: Implications for Practice and Video Demonstration

Michael Randolph is an integrative psychotherapist who works mainly in France, but also in the UK, Poland, Romania and Slovenia. He is Secretary General of the French Union of Psychotherapists and Psychoanalysts, SNPPsy. He is also board member of the European Association of Integrative Psychotherapists, EAIP, and chair of its membership committee.

Profesor MD Phd. Bogdan de Barbaro, psychiatrist, psychotherapist, head of the Family Therapy Depratment of Collegium Medicum of Jagiellonian Univerystity, certified psychotherapy supervisor of the Polish Psychiatric Association, corresponding member of American Psychiatric Association, in 1988 – 1989 worked under the supervision of prof. Lyman Wynne w Rochester Psychiatric Center and was trained at the University of Rochester, Department of Psychiatry. Member of Editorial Advisory Board of „Psychiatry. Interpersonal and Biological Processes”. Auhtor and co-author of papers on psychotherapy, therapy of schizophrenia, family therapy. Professional interests: constructionistic family therapy, postmodernism in psychotherapy, postpsychiatry.

Eugenijus Laurinaitis is the associate professor of the Vilnius University, the department of psychiatry. He graduated medical studies at the Vilnius University and completed Phd degree in Leningrad Bekhterev’s Research Institute of Psychiatry and Neurology.

In his research work he is interested in Epidemiology of the neurotic and personality disorders; Intensive psychotherapy in day-care setting; Group psychotherapy; Psychosomatic disorders and relationships. One of his fields of work are courses for students on Doctor patient communication skills, Psychosomatics, Psychotherapy, Psychoanalysis. In postgraduate training his teaching activities encompass Psychodynamic individual psychotherapy; Psychodynamic group psychotherapy, Group Analysis.

His main publications are: Group Analysis – In: Group Psychotherapy in Lithuania; Therapist’s Role in Group Analysis – In: Book of Abstracts of Annual Conference of Lithuanian Psychiatric Association; Psychotherapy and Democracy: a Complicated Interplay. Keynote lecture, 3rd World Congress of Psychotherapy of WCP; Neurotic Disorders; Psychotherapy – Chapters in: Psychiatry. A Handbook; Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy (co-author with L.Andrikienė and R. Milašiūnas);Psychoterapy (co-editor and co-author).

Houria Ahcene Djaballah, Phd, psychologist. She is a lecturer and researcher at the university in Alger. During the 1995 – 2005 was the head of Algerian Society of Development and Psychotherapy.  Has played a major role in developing systemic family therapy in Algeria. She actively participates in organizations working on women rights protection and  children abuse prevention.

Miroslaw Bilski - Piotrowski, MD, CCFP, FRCPC (Psychiatry), faculty, Department of Psychiatry, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada.

Completed Academy of Medicine in Warsaw (currently Warsaw Medical University) in 1980. Trained in several methods of psychotherapy during psychiatry residency and fellowship program in psychotherapy.

His interest has been in working with patients with broad spectrum disorders applying the standard Davanloo’s Intensive Short-term Dynamic Psychotherapy. His understanding of theoretical and technical principles of this unique technique have been enhanced through annual participation in the audiovisual immersion courses of Davanloo’s metapsychology of the unconscious in Montreal since 2001.  Since 2006 has been directly trained under Dr. H. Davanloo’s supervision.

Has presented numerous lectures and clinical cases at academic and  psychotherapy rounds for the department of psychiatry.

Participated in research in collaboration with Dr. Allan Abbass (ISTDP researcher and therapist) on patients with somatization disorders (migraines headaches).

Continue to provide consultations and treatments including psychotherapy (ISTDP) to patients with a broad spectrum of disorders (anxiety, depression complicated by characterological changes).

Michael J. Lambert, PhD is a Professor and holds the Susa young Gates University Professorship at Brigham Young University, teaching in the Clinical Psychology Program. He has been in private practice as a psychotherapist throughout his career. His teaching includes classes in psychotherapy, psychotherapy supervision, and clinical research methods. His research spans 35 years and has emphasized psychotherapy outcome, process, and the measurement of change.  He has edited, authored, or co-authored 9 academic research-based books, and 40 book chapters, while publishing over 150 scientific articles on treatment outcome.  He has given over 200 presentations across the world, many of them invited addresses.

Jan Czesław Czabała, profesor of clinical psychology. Head of the Departament of Psychology and Mental Heath Promotion, Institute of Psychiatry and Neurology. Director of the Institute of Applied Psychology, Academy of Special Education. Involved in psychotherapy research of 40 years. Member of the research projects funded by the European Commission. Author of “Czynniki leczące w psychoterapii” (Therapeutic factors in psychotherapy) and over 100 publications on psychotherapy and mental health promotion.

Former president of the Scientific Psychotherapy Section of the Polish Psychiatric Association and Former Deputy Director for Research of the Institute of Psychiatry and Neurology. Fellow of the Fulbright Scholarship. Former editor of “Psychoterapia”, Member of the editorial boards of “Psychiatria Polska”, „Postępy Psychiatrii i Neurologii”, „Alkoholizm i Narkomania”, „Lęk i Depresja”, "International Journal of Psychology", “System Familie", “International Journal of Group Psychotherapy”.