Conference of European Association for Psychotherapy, Vilnius University, LPS, LPA, LSP
Vilnius
October 15-18, 2014
WEDNESDAY, October 15 th
13:00 – 15:00 Registration
15:00 – 15:30 Opening ceremony
15:30 – 16:15 C. Höschl and F. Spaniel (Czech Republic)
Art and Neuroscience
16:15 – 17:00 Prof. Gražina Gudaitė (Lithuania)
The Dynamics of Authority Images in Psychotherapy: from Helplessness towards
Experience of Authorship
17:00 – 17:30 Discussion
18:00 Get-together party
Cafeteria of Vilnius University
THURSDAY, October 16 th
Registration desk opens at 8:00
Theoretical Background
Chair:
9:00 – 9:40 Prof. Jerzy Aleksandrowicz (Poland)
Painful Relationships among Theories of Psychotherapy, Research and Practical
Experience
9:40 – 10:20 Prof. Bogdan de Barbaro (Poland)
Postmodern Dilemma: Psychotherapy as a Free Profession or as Part of Medicine
10:20 – 10:40 Coffee break
10:40 – 11:20 Dr. Levas Kovarskis (Finland)
The Place of Psychotherapy in Postmodernistic World
11:20 – 12:00 Prof.Marco Pagani (Italy)

Psychotherapies and Trauma: Past, Present and Future
12:00 – 13:00 Lunch
Professional Background
Chair:
13:00 – 13:45 Canon Adrian Rhodes (UK)
The Therapist as Sisyphus
13:45 – 14:30 Renee Oudijk (the Netherlands)
Competency of a European Psychotherapist
14:30 – 15:15 Caroline Saunders (UK)
How Has the Law Influenced the Quality of Mental Health Care in the UK
15:15 – 15:45 Coffee break
15:45 – 16:30 Prof. Fedor Vasiliuk (Russia)
Psychotherapeutic Facilitation of Creative Thinking
16:30 – 17:15 Prof. Alfred Pritz (Austria)
The Small but Important Difference between Psychotherapy and Scientifically
Based Psychotherapy
17:15 – 18:00 Discussion
FRIDAY, October 17 th
Registration desk opens at 8:00
Chair:
9:00 – 9:40
9:40 – 10:20
Prof. Rémy Aquarone (UK)
From PTSD to DID: A Structural Model of Dissociation
Prof. Ivan Urlić (Croatia)
The Psychotic Experiences Mirrored in the Psychotherapeutic Groups: the Mind and Brain in Discoordination
10:20 – 10:40 Coffee break
10:40 – 11:20 Prof. Jacek Bomba (Poland)
Does Art Heal?
11:20 – 12:00 Ruth Kimmins (UK)
Solutions in Multiple Contexts

12:00 – 13:00 Lunch
13:00 – 13:45 Peter Schulthess, Aureliano Crameri, Margit-Koemeda-Lutz, Agnes von Wyl, Volker
Tschuschke (Switzerland, Germany)
Therapy Outcomes in a Naturalistic Outpatient Study throughout Switzerland
13:45 – 14:30 Assoc. Prof. Gintaras Chomentauskas (Lithuania)
Psychological Wellness in the Context of Social Systems: What Statistics can
Contribute to Psychotherapy
14:30 – 15:15 Diana Ortega, Pr. V. Pomini (Switzerland)
What are the Benefits of Alliance-Focused Training for Young Psychotherapy
Trainees?
15:15 – 16:00 Prof. Eugenijus Laurinaitis (Lithuania)
How Practical a Science of Psychotherapy should be?
16:00 – 16:30 Coffee break
16:30 – 18:00 Fishbowl discussion“Research and Practice – Strangers or Lovers?”
Participants: prof. Ivan Urlič, prof. Alfred Pritz, prof. Bogdan de Barbaro, assoc. prof. Gintaras
Chomentauskas, dr. Matheus de Wolf, dr. Levas Kovarskis
Moderator: Assoc. prof. Eugenijus Laurinaitis
Hall A (238)
THURSDAY, October 16 th
Research in Practice
Chair:
13:00 – 13:45 Prof. Dr. Kenneth Evans (UK)
Relational Centered Research for Psychotherapists: Exploring Meanings and
Purpose
13:45 – 14:30 Prof. Snežana Milenkovič (Serbia)
Untouchable Psychotherapists: What could Research reveal about Them?
14:30 – 15:15 Dr. sci.med. Ljiljana Samardžič (Serbia)
Integrating Practice and Research – Early AlliancePrediction
15:15 – 15:45 Coffee break
15:45 – 16:30 Sally Osborne (UK)
Where Art and Science Meet; Nurse Prescribing and Therapy Working Together

16:30 – 17:15 Dr. Oleg Lapin (Lithuania)
Psychotherapy, Meditation, Constellation – All-in One
17:15 – 18:00 Discussion
FRIDAY, October 17 th
Chair:
13:00 – 13:45 Rémy Aquarone (UK?)
Structural Dissociation of the Personality
13:45 – 14:30 V.Keturakis, V.Girgždė (Lithuania)
From Inquiry to Psychotherapy. Studying Couples in Distress We get Findings. Do
Couples get Insights?
14:30 – 15:15 Buckland R., DesmierM. (UK)
The Provision of an Emotional Regulation STEPPS Group within a Community
Mental Health Service in the UK
15:15 – 16:00 Prof.Sergiej Igumnov (Belarus)
Psychotherapy of Patients with Oncology Diseases after Operation
16:00 – 16:30 Discussion
Hall B (239)
THURSDAY, October 16 th
Approaches
Chair:
13:00 – 13:45 Dr. Mattheus de Wolf (the Netherlands)
Psychoanalysis: Its Status and Future
13:45 – 14:30 Dr. Kristina Gintalaitė-Bieliauskienė (UK)
Mentalization Based Treatment for Borderline Personality Disorder: from Theory to Practice
14:30 – 15:15 Dr. Rytis Artūras Stelingis (Lithuania)
A Gestalt Approach to a Practitioner Research Model: Reflecting on 20 Years of
Experience
15:15 – 15:45 Coffee break

15:45 – 16:15 Giedre Akelytė (Lithuania)
Regulative Music Therapy
16:15 – 16:45 Jūratė Sučylaitė (Lithuania)
Literature Heals: Transpersonal Changes through Literature Reading, Writing and
Discussion
16:45 – 17:15 Viktorija Vaišvilaitė (Lithuania)
Group Psychotherapy for Patients with Panic Disorder: Search of the Better
Aproach
17:15 – 18:00 Discussion
FRIDAY, October 17 th
Chair:
13:00 – 13:45 Dr. Nunzia Tarantini (Italy)
Imagination: The Soul of Children Drawing
13:45 – 14:30 Prof. Joseph Knobel Freud (Spain)
(Title to be announced)
14:30 – 15:15 Agnieszka Widera Wysoczańska (Poland)
Healing Factors in the Course of Psychotherapy for People from Dysfunctional
Families – the Clients’ Perspective
15:15 – 16:00 Discussion
16:00 – 16:30 Coffee break
19:00 Gala Dinner
“Neringa” Restaurant
SATURDAY, October 18 th
Workshops (optional)*
9:00 – 12:30 No. 1 Dr. Mattheus de Wolf (the Netherlands)
Doses in Psychoanalytical Forms of Treatment: Difference between Psychoanalysis
Proper and Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy.
9:00 – 12:30 No. 2 Prof. Ivan Urlić (Croatia)
Group Psychotherapy with Psychotic Patients
+9:00 – 12:30 No. 3 Celia Scanlan (UK; Scotland)
Was Scotland‘s National Bard a Psychotherapist?

9:00 – 10:30 No. 4 Patrizia Moselli and Maria Luisa Manca (Italy)
The Evolution of Bioenergetic Analysis: by Expressive Therapy to Somatic
Relational Approach
11:00 – 12:30 No.5 Catherine Rhodes (UK)
Psychotherapist as Gardener: The metaphor of gardener as psychotherapist.
What do we do to help or hinder growth in our clients?
9:00 – 13:00 No.6 Nadija Corcos (UK)
Solution Focused Art Therapy Interventions for Reducing Arousal, Increasing
Resources and Externalising Harmful Experiences in Trauma Survivors.
14:00 – 15:00 Lunch
14:00 – 17:00 No.7 J. Cumming &G.Gowing (UK)
Dialectical Behaviour Therapy in Practice
14:00 – 17:00 No.8 Irena Bezič, Ph.D (Croatia)
Contact and Dialogical Approach
14:00 – 17:00 No.9 Rémy Aquarone (UK?)
Treatment of Structural Dissociation of the Personality
*Registration to workshops will be completed on 17 th of October.
Poster session
Tatiana Kartagina (Belarus)
Psychotherapist's Empathy - Technique, Science, Art
Albina Kepalaitė (Lithuania)
Psychodrama Possibilities: Dynamic of Social Interest
EdgarasDlugauskas, GuodaPaulikienė (Lithuania)
The First Woman of Oedipus or the Metamorphoses of the Sphinx in Art
Dr. Kristina Gintalaitė-Bieliauskienė, Dr. Laura Bennett, Dr. Robert Dixon (UK)
How to Find a Common Language for the Patients with the Diagnosis of Borderline Personality
Disorder Admitted to Psychiatric Intensive Care Unit?
Agnieszka Widera Wysoczańska (Poland)
Court Psychological Assessment of Sexually Abused Children and Their Families