THIRD WORLD CONFERENCE

2-3-4-5 June 2022 Arezzo
Auditorium Business and Convention Center

Best practice: the evolutionary adaptations of the therapeutic technique fitting to the evolution of psychopathologies

For the first time, a truly global conference will be held because it will take place in presence in Italy and with direct connections with congress halls at our official offices, to which other halls organized by institutes connected with the CTS in the world will be added.

The congress will be translated into different languages simultaneously by the heads of the worldwide offices of the Strategic Therapy Center

In the event that the regulations in force prevent it from taking place in person, the entire congress will be held online

Official Locations

French: Gregoire Vitrie

Spain: Maria Matin de Pozuelo

Russia: Elena Pervisheva

Perù: Ricardo de la Cruz

Mexico: Liliana Velarde

Bolivia: Norman Romei

Colombia: Maria Andrea Hernandez

Costa Rica: Gabriella D'Arsiè

England: Padraic Gibson

Belgium: IGB Institute

Usa: Cristian Moretto and Flavia Liguori

Chile: Evelyn Leighton

Paraguay: Leticia Diaz

The conference

Il Third World Conference of the Brief Strategic and Systemic Therapy World Network (BSST) it is designed as a sort of sequence of specialized refresher seminars: the therapeutic strategies and tricks that have been developed in recent years to maintain the high efficacy and efficiency of the approach to the observed evolutions in psychopathological dynamics will be proposed.

It is important to consider that mental and behavioral disorders have evolved over time, this has made it necessary to readjust therapeutic techniques, even well-known disorders in the strategic tradition over time have highlighted developments and changes, which have required variations and readjustments of strategies of intervention.

To this we must add that in recent times new clinical problems have emerged in relation to the great changes in communication, relationships and lifestyles. All this has made it essential to develop new expedients and therapeutic maneuvers. Even therapy responds to the laws of evolution, if it does not adapt sooner or later it succumbs to reality.

By virtue of all this, Brief Strategic Psychotherapy satisfies the fundamental criteria of a scientific discipline: efficacy, efficiency, replicability, transmissibility and predictivity, demonstrating in the facts as well as in its epistemology to possess rigor and at the same time be driven by creativity and inventiveness never dissociated. with proven empirical efficacy.

Speakers

The most important exponents of the Brief Strategic and Systemic Psychotherapy model

Location

Arezzo Business and Convention Center Auditorium
2-3-4-5 Giugno 2022

Program

A full immersion in the world of psychology, psychotherapy and performance science

How to register

Choose your mode of participation by purchasing online

Attend the 3rd BSST World Conference

2-3-4-5 June 2022 at the Auditorium Centro Affari e Convegni in Arezzo

Speakers

George Nardone

Psychotherapist and university teacher

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Jean Jacques Wittezael

Psychotherapist and teacher

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Stefan Geyerhofer

Psychotherapist and university teacher

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Gregory Vitry

Sociologist and teacher

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Claudette Portelli

Psychotherapist and teacher

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Joan Celia

Psychotherapist and university teacher

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Psychologist-Psychotherapist, PhD. She is a researcher at the University of Foggia. Head of the Psychological Counseling Service (SCP) of the University of Foggia. She is a member of the International Psychosocial Genomic Team with which she carries out innovative perspectives of research and clinical intervention in the field of Psychosocial and Cultural Genomics. She co-founder of the School of Specialization in Integrated Strategic Psychotherapy (SCUPSIS) in Rome of which she is currently director as well as teacher, therapist and supervisor. Founder and President of the Italian Society of Integrated and Strategic Psychotherapy - SIPIS; Member of the American Psychological Association (APA). You have given invited lectures at important conferences such as: 12th International Ericksonian Congress in Phoenix, 2011; “The Evolution of Psychotherapy Conference”, Milton Erickson Foundation Editor, Anaheim, USA, in 2013; World Congress of Brief Strategic and Systemic Therapy World Network 2015; XIII European Society of Clinical Hypnosis CONGRESS HYPNOSIS AND RESILIENCE 2015; 20th World Congress Hypnosis 2015, Paris; In 2017 she together with dr. Cozzolino, as a couple, were chosen by the official magazine of the Milton Erickson Foundation as protagonists of the column "The Power of Two”For the contribution they have made to the advancement and evolution of clinical hypnosis and strategic psychotherapy. Award winner in 2015 Distinguished Investigator Achievement Award awarded by the Psychosocial Genomics Research Institute, California Central Coast, for research, training and clinical work in the field of the innovative approach of Psychosocial and Cultural Genomics. She directs the scientific journal "Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy Today" she has been a consultant for the journal D-Donna, La Repubblica, L'Espresso group. Author of several volumes including, in 2014, "The strategic-integrated group: theories, methods and tools for effective management", in 2016, "The integrated strategic model: the evolution of the short-term clinical intervention", and in 2021 "Handbook of therapeutic strategies, exercises and prescriptions to dissolve psychological knots in a short time" all published by Franco Angeli of Milan.

Stephen Pallanti

Psychiatrist and university professor

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Prof. Stefano Pallanti is Professor of Psychiatry at Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Visiting Professor at Imperial College, London, Faculty of Harvard University and Massachusetts General Hospital Psychiatry Academy, Faculty of Training School at Cambridge University Clair College, and is Director of the 'Institute of Neuroscience.

From 2007 to 2008 he held the position of Founder and Director of the Strategic Center of Excellence for OCD, Impulsive and Behavioral Addiction at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York.

From 2018 to 2019 he was Professor of Psychiatry at Stanford University, CA, where he founded the Precision Psychiatry Program for Adult ADHD and served as a faculty advisor on Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation.

From 2013 to 2014 he was Professor of Psychiatry at UC Davis, CA, and there he started the telemedicine service.

Prof. Stefano Pallanti is NIMH grant co-PI on the study of Theta Burst Stimulation on Gambling.

He is Board member of the European Commission, consensus initiatives on Depression and its treatment (EU PEARL) and is an Expert on Anxiety of the World Health Organization.

For the European College of Neuropsychopharmacoloty (ECNP), Prof. Pallanti is a member of the Educational Committee, Scientific Board, and is Chair of the Neuromodulation Network.

He was a member of the Executive Committee from 2016 to 2019.

He is Advisory Council member of the International Center for Autism Research and Education, international fellow and Advisory Board of the American Psychiatric Association for the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, the DSM-IV and for the Obsessive Compulsive Disorder Spectrum Workgroup for the DSM5. She is a member of the board of directors of the International College for Obsessive-Compulsive Spectrum Disorders (ICOCS), a member of the PANDAS Physicians Network, and is of the International Neuroethics Society.

He is founder and member of the Clinical TMS Society and is the member of the New York Society of Psychiatry.

He is editor of the Archive of Behavioral Addiction and is Deputy Editor and columnist of CNS Spectrums. He has published over 400 peer reviewed papers, 13 books, 4 psychiatry textbooks and his H-Index is 60 as of April 2022.

Jeffrey B. Jackson

Psychotherapist and university teacher

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Jade Pietrabissa

Psychotherapist and university teacher

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Ferdinand Wolf

Psychologist and teacher

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Elisa Balbi

Psychotherapist and teacher

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Camillo Loriedo

Psychiatrist and university professor

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Padraic Gibson

Psychologist and teacher

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Gianluca Castelnuovo

Psychotherapist and university teacher

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Michael Hoyt with F. Cannistrà

Psychologist and psychotherapist

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Robert Milanese

Psychologist and psychotherapist

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Roberta Milanese is a psychologist, psychotherapist and researcher associated with the Strategic Therapy Center. of Arezzo. For more than twenty-five years you have collaborated with Giorgio Nardone and contributed to the evolution of the Brief Strategic Therapy Model in the clinical, business and performance science fields. You are a teacher of the School of Specialization in Brief Strategic Psychotherapy (Arezzo and Florence offices) and of the specialization masters in Italy and abroad, both in the clinical (doctors, psychologists, psychiatrists and psychotherapists) and organizational (managers, entrepreneurs) fields. .

Didactic coordinator and teacher of Giorgio Nardone's “1st and 2nd level Master in Communication, Problem Solving, Performance Science and Strategic Coaching”. Professor of the second level University Master in Clinical Health Psychology and of the School of Specialization in Clinical Psychology of the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart (UNICATT) of Milan,

In addition to numerous articles in scientific journals, he has published eleven books on the strategic approach, translated into various languages. These include: The deceptive fear of not being up to par. Strategies for recognizing one's worth; The wounded mind. Go through the pain to overcome it (with Giorgio Nardone and Federica Cagnoni), The strategic change (with Giorgio Nardone); Psychopills. For an ethical and strategic use of drugs (with Alberto Caputo), The touch, the remedy, the word. Doctor-patient communication as a therapeutic tool (with Simona Milanese); Change the past. Overcoming trauma with strategic therapy (with Federica Cagnoni). She also collaborated in the drafting of the first International Dictionary of Psychotherapy as head of the steering committee, of the items of the strategic paradigm and author of numerous items of the same. For years she has been invited as a speaker to participate in national and international psychotherapy congresses in Europe, the United States and Latin America.

Program

June 2 2022
June 3 2022
June 4 2022
June 5 2022

13:30/14:30

Conference registration

14:30/15:00

20 years of BSST narrated by the three creators

Stefan Geyerhofer - Jean Jacques Wittezaele - Giorgio Nardone

15:00/17:15

Dialogue between mind, brain, logic and therapeutic languages

Giorgio Nardone - Stefano Pallanti - Jean Jacques Wittezaele

Epistemology, neuroscience and Brief Strategic Therapy

17:15/17:45

Interaction with the audience

17:45/19:30

Getting the numbers to talk: Research methodologies to increase therapeutic efficacy.

Giorgio Nardone - Jeffrey B. Jackson - Padraic Gibson - Stefan Geyerhofer - Gianluca Castelnuovo - Gregoire Vitry

Empirical research for the development of therapeutic techniques
Empirical research on the language of therapy
Research methodology for the validation of results: evidence based research and longitudinal empirical research in the field
Proposals for other investigation methods

19:30/20:00

Interaction with the audience

09:30/11:45

A good start is half the battle: Advanced techniques for the first session

Giorgio Nardone - Michael Hoyt with F. Cannistrà - Ferdinand Wolf with Andrea Leonardi

Evolution of the Miracle Demand and Other Solution-Focused Therapy Techniques
Evolution of the Single Session Therapy technique
Evolution of the technique of strategic dialogue and hypnotherapy without trance

11:45/12:15

Interaction with the audience

12:15/13:15

Demonstration with Giorgio Nardone

George Nardone

13:15/14:30

Lunch break

14:30/16:30

The most love how feared pathologies: the evolved treatment of eating disorders

Giorgio Nardone - Gianluca Castelnuovo - Jeffrey B. Jackson - Elisa Valteroni

Juvenile anorexia
Adult anorexia
binge eating
voting
Bulimia
Uncontrolled feeding

16:30/17:00

Interaction with the audience

17:00/19:00

The pursuit of missed pleasure: The advanced treatment of sexual disorders and more

Giorgio Nardone - Stefan Geyerhofer - Jean Jacques Wittezaele - Elisa Balbi

anorgasmia
Inability to erect
Premature ejaculation
Phobia of female and male penetration
Compulsive cyber sex
Hyper sexual transgression and forms of violence

19:00/19:30

Interaction with the audience

09:30/11:45

Art and technology of psychotherapy: The advanced treatment of phobic-obsessive disorders, specific phobias and phobic obsessions

Giorgio Nardone - Jean Jacques Wittezaele - Roberta Milanese

Panic attacks
Pathophobia
Hypochondria
Monophobias
Phobic fixations
Agoraphobia vs claustrophobia
Projective phobias

11:45/12:15

Interaction with the audience

12:15/13:15

Demonstration with Giorgio Nardone

George Nardone

13:15/14:30

Lunch break

14:30/16:00

Art and technology of therapy: The advanced treatment of obsessive-compulsive disorder and its variants

Giorgio Nardone - Padraic Gibson - Claudette Portelli - Jeff Jackson

Obsession with recheck
Compulsion to sanitation
Hoarding and holding mania
Propitiatory rituals
Compulsions based on pleasure
Preventive Compulsivity

16:00/19:00

Long-term short-term psychotherapy

Giorgio Nardone - Camillo Loriedo - Stefano Pallanti - Jean Jacques Wittezaele - Giovanna Celia

The evolution of the treatment of borderline personality disorders and major depression, chronic diseases

19:00/19:30

Interaction with the audience

09:00/11:00

Post-congress workshop with Giorgio Nardone - Beyond oneself: art and science of Performance

George Nardone

In the mind of the performer

11:00/11:15

Pause

11:15/12:15

Perceptual-cognitive styles and performance

George Nardone

12:15/13:30

Lunch break

13:30/14:30

Change while remaining yourself: create strategic flexibility

George Nardone

14:30/15:30

The performative trance: Learning to enter the state of grace

George Nardone

15:30/16:30

Invent and act: Suggestive rituality

George Nardone

16:30/16:45

Pause

16:45/18:00

Demonstration with volunteers and interaction with the public

George Nardone

Live participation prices

* MAX NUMBER OF SEATS

450€

300€

Online participation prices

300€

200€

250€

Location

FAQ

How can I sign up?

To register for the Conference just fill out the online form that you find in the "Attend the conference"Of this site. You will be able to pay comfortably with your credit or debit card even if you do not have a PayPal account.

Who is participation open to?

Graduates in psychology and medicine, psychologists and doctors can participate in the event.

Where and when does the 3rd World Congress take place?

The 3rd World Conference of the BSST World Network will be held from 2 to 5 June at the Auditorium Centro Affari e Convegni in Arezzo and online.

Can I participate in a single day?

Yes, it is possible to register only for the single day of Sunday 5th June. During the registration phase you can choose whether to participate in all 4 days of the Conference or on a single day on Sunday.

Can I sign up even if I don't have a Paypal account?

Yes sure. Once the procedure for entering personal data has been completed, you will be redirected to the Paypal site. Just click on the "Pay with a card" button and you can make the purchase by entering your card details in the appropriate text field.

Can I pay by bank transfer?

No, payment can be made by card through the online registration form.

Can I have an invoice?

Yes sure. You can indicate the header of the invoice in the registration field of the form at the time of purchase. When you receive the payment confirmation email, you will find the invoice in "xml" format attached.

Is the release of the certificate of participation expected?

Yes, the Strategic Therapy Center, at the end of the event, will issue the certificate of participation in the Third World Conference of the Brief Strategic and Systemic Therapy World Network.

What if I have an unforeseen event and cannot participate?

The participant can request a refund within 15 days from the date scheduled for the Conference. After this date it will no longer be possible to request refunds.

I don't speak Italian will there be a translation?

Yes, thanks to the managers of the Strategic Therapy Center offices around the world, the consecutive translation of the Congress will be carried out for online participants.

The BSST profile

Our story

The Brief Strategic and Systemic Therapy World Network was founded by the 700 participants present at the 1st European Conference (held in Arezzo in November 2003) which, gathered for 4 days, analyzed the evolutions of mental health problems, comparing the models that practice psychotherapy, together with the research activity, had developed in the last decades in parallel in Europe and in the rest of the world.

Thanks to that comparison, it was clearly highlighted how some European researchers had perfected Advanced treatment protocols for specific pathologies, as well as the wording of Communication techniques that have extraordinarily increased the effectiveness and efficiency of treatments, both in the clinical setting and in organizational contexts.

The pragmatic application of the strategic and systemic approach to human interactions has revealed that it is one of the most effective operational models for solving interactive and psychopathological problems without any use of drugs.

Realizing the scientific relevance and importance that all this could mean, they decided to create a network called "Network of Brief Strategic and Systemic Therapy", involving the most illustrious exponents with the task of expanding research at an international level and comparing the Models in different cultures and social contexts, facilitate publications, organize meetings in order to create an elites of professionals with the aim of promoting the development and dissemination of knowledge derived from the evolution of Brief Strategic and Systemic Therapy.
On that occasion, Prof. Giorgio Nardone, Director of the Strategic Therapy Center in Arezzo, was unanimously elected Coordinator of the Network.

Mission

Helping people, families and all those extended human systems (organizations, associations, groups) that are confronted with suffering and / or difficulties that limit their possibilities
Organize at least every 3 years an international conference for the presentation of the most advanced researches both in the field of communication and therapy of mental and behavioral disorders
Offer the members of the Network the most recent acquisitions concerning the main issues of brief therapy, advanced research, in order to identify ever shorter and more effective treatments
Identify communication and problem solving models that quickly trigger the necessary change within organizational systems.

Accomplished results

We have created an international network present in 32 countries which includes professionals from public and private bodies, research and training institutes.
The recognition of the ONLINE published journal "Brief Strategic and Systemic Therapy European Review" (ISSN 1826-3992) freely disseminated all over the world, to disseminate the most significant contributions of scholars and researchers by stimulating as much as possible the interactions between training, practice, theory and research

Affiliation

All participants in the International Congress will automatically have the right to become associates of the Brief Strategic and Systemic Therapy World Network, at no cost.

This is to avoid, unlike other international scientific associations, the establishment of any type of speculative lobby or closed circle for adepts only, but to create a space for exchange and constant evolution of the technique in the field of psychotherapy.

Scientific Committee

Paul WatzlawickHonorary President - 25/07/1921 - 31/03/2007
George NardoneBBST World Network Coordinator
Elkaim Mony07/11/1941 - 20/11/2020
William Gulotta
Camillo Loriedo
Enrique Molinari
Enrico Pio Ricci Bitti
Alessandro Salvini
Saulo Sirigatti04/07/1933 - 17/08/2021
Teresa Garcia13/01/1958 - 31/01/2019
Stefan Geyerhofer
Wendel Ray
Jean Jacques Wittezael
Gianfranco Cecchin22/08/1932 - 02/02/2004
Andrew Leonardi

Contact us

Strategic Therapy Center

Research, Training and Psychotherapy Institute

THIRD WORLD CONFERENCE

2-3-4-5 June 2022 ArezzoAuditorium Business and Convention Center

In the event that the regulations in force prevent it from taking place in person, the entire congress will be held online

Official Locations

The conference

Speakers

Location

Program

How to register

Attend the 3rd BSST World Conference

Speakers

George Nardone

Jean Jacques Wittezael

Stefan Geyerhofer

Gregory Vitry

Claudette Portelli

Joan Celia

Stephen Pallanti

Jeffrey B. Jackson

Jade Pietrabissa

Ferdinand Wolf

Elisa Balbi

Camillo Loriedo

Padraic Gibson

Gianluca Castelnuovo

Michael Hoyt with F. Cannistrà

Robert Milanese

Program

Conference registration

20 years of BSST narrated by the three creators

Dialogue between mind, brain, logic and therapeutic languages

Interaction with the audience

Getting the numbers to talk: Research methodologies to increase therapeutic efficacy.

Interaction with the audience

A good start is half the battle: Advanced techniques for the first session

Interaction with the audience

Demonstration with Giorgio Nardone

Lunch break

The most love how feared pathologies: the evolved treatment of eating disorders

Interaction with the audience

The pursuit of missed pleasure: The advanced treatment of sexual disorders and more

Interaction with the audience

Art and technology of psychotherapy: The advanced treatment of phobic-obsessive disorders, specific phobias and phobic obsessions

Interaction with the audience

Demonstration with Giorgio Nardone

Lunch break

Art and technology of therapy: The advanced treatment of obsessive-compulsive disorder and its variants

Long-term short-term psychotherapy

Interaction with the audience

Post-congress workshop with Giorgio Nardone - Beyond oneself: art and science of Performance

Pause

Perceptual-cognitive styles and performance

Lunch break

Change while remaining yourself: create strategic flexibility

The performative trance: Learning to enter the state of grace

Invent and act: Suggestive rituality

Pause

Demonstration with volunteers and interaction with the public

Live participation prices * MAX NUMBER OF SEATS

Standard

Students and Affiliates

Online participation prices

Standard

Students and Affiliates

South America and Russia

Sunday 5 June

Location

FAQ

How can I sign up?

Who is participation open to?

Where and when does the 3rd World Congress take place?

Can I participate in a single day?

Can I sign up even if I don't have a Paypal account?

Can I pay by bank transfer?

Can I have an invoice?

Is the release of the certificate of participation expected?

What if I have an unforeseen event and cannot participate?

I don't speak Italian will there be a translation?

The BSST profile

Our story

2-3-4-5 June 2022 Arezzo
Auditorium Business and Convention Center

Live participation prices

* MAX NUMBER OF SEATS