Scientific Programme

 

 

1^st DAY  THURSDAY  11^th NOVEMBER

 

 

9,00a.m.    Welcome Speech                 Opening Session

 

9,15a.m.    Introductive: held by the Coordinator of Brief Strategic and Systemic Therapy Word Network

 

            “Prevention and chronicalization of psychiatric and behavioural disorders: pilot study on the use of Brief Strategic Therapy as the reducer of complexity”; Prof. G. Nardone

 

            “Law 180: proposals to change the Law Basaglia”; On. C. Ciccioli

 

            The strategic volunteering “The partnership between Associazione Amici di Totò…a prescindere! Onlus and Associazione Nardone-Watzlawick Onlus”;     Dr. D. Famiglietti (President of Associazione Amici di Totò Onlus);     Sig.ra M.C. Nardone (Presidente Associazione Nardone-Watzlawick Onlus) 

 

 

10,15a.m.  Presentation: “Interactional Strategic Psychopathology: on alternative project to psychiatric nosography”;     Prof. J. J. Wittezaele

 

11,00a.m.        Coffee break

 

11,15a.m.   Presentation: “The Logic of Ambivalence both in pathology and therapy”;     Prof. G. Nardone

 

12,00a.m.    Presentation/Demo: “To discover and utilize subjectivity in human systems”;     Prof. M. Elkaim

 

1,15p.m.     Video: “Identify and rewake therapeutic resources: the creative therapist”;  Prof. B. Keeney

 

1,45.m.  Presentation /Demo: “Hypnotic diagnosis: identifying and utilizing the hypnotic indicators”;    Prof. C. Loriedo

 

2,45p.m.  Presentation /Demo: “Brief Family Therapy based on the collaborative strength of the families with self-harming and suicidal  adolescents”;   Prof. M. Selekman

 

3,45p.m. Coffee break

 

4,00p.m.  Presentation: “The technique of collage: couple diagnosis”;    Prof. R. De Bernart

 

4,45p.m. Presentation /Demo: “Advanced intervening-diagnosis: dancing between solutions and problems, between therapy and pathology”;  Prof G. Nardone

 

5,45p.m.  Selected Communications: presentation of single cases solved by innovative techniques.

 

 

 

 

 

 

2^nd DAY  FRIDAY  12^th NOVEMBER

 

10,00a.m.     Presentation /Demo: “The past, the present and the future of Brief Strategic and Systemic Therapy”;   Prof. H. Stierlin

 

10,00a.m.   Presentation /Demo: “The art of working with couples: strategic interventions informed by an assessment of specific client variables”; Dr. Barbara Anger-Diaz, Dr. Katharina Anger

 

10,45a.m.        Coffee break

 

11,00a.m.   Presentation /Demo: “Chronic Pain: activating internal images to interrupt problem-maintaining patterns”;      Dr. I. Hoffman

 

11,45a.m.   Presentation /Demo: “A systems approach for the assessment and treatment of Burn Out and Neurasthenia”;            Prof. S. Geyerhofer

 

12,30p.m.       Presentation:  “Brief strategic systemic couples’ and family therapy protocol”;    Dr. T.  Garcia

 

1,15p.m.        Presentation: “Interaction focused therapy”;   Prof. W. Ray

 

2,00p.m.      Presentation: “Imagination, play and possibilities: a collaborative strengths-based brief therapy approach with challenging children”; Prof. M. Selekman

 

3,00p.m.        Presentation /Workshop: “To render words magical. Observation, evaluation and utilization of non-verbal language in therapy”; Prof. G. Schmidt, Prof. G. Nardone

 

5,00p.m.         Coffee break

 

5,15p.m.         Presentation: “Brief Strategic Family Therapy ”; Dr. O. Hervis

 

6,15p.m.         Selected Communications: presentations of single cases solved by new techniques.

 

• “Two case studies: treating Bipolar II Disorder and a typical PSTD with Strategic Therapy”;   
      Dr. C. Hybarger
• “Direct strategic treatment with children”;     Dr. L. Velarde
• “Grief and loss: a strategic approach”;       Dr. S. De Antoniis; Dr. G. Mascolo
• “Indirect intervention in a presumed autistic child’s case”;   Dr. G. Aloe
• “The psychopathology of affections”;    Dr. E. Muriana, Dr. T. Verbitz

 

7,00p.m.         End of Session

 

 

 

 

3^rd DAY  SATURDAY  13^th NOVEMBER

 

9,00a.m.        Presentation: “Surviving the absurd”;    Prof G. Gulotta

 

9,45a.m.        Presentation: “Strategic dialogue and protocol for psychosomatic disorders”;   Dr. D. Birkas

 

10,30a.m.      Coffee break

 

10,45a.m.      Chorus Presentation:  Prof. G. Nardone e CTS Trainers Team

 

Specific solutions for specific types  of problems

20 years of therapeutic inventions and formulations on Centro di Terapia Strategica

 

Dr. G. Aloe, Dr. E. Balbi, Dr. A. Bartoletti, Dr. M. Bartoletti, Dr. M. Bolmida, Dr. F. Cagnoni, Dr. G. Castelnuovo, Dr. M. Chiodini, Dr. S. De Antoniis, Dr. O. Igochina, Dr. R. Milanese, Dr. P. Mordazzi, Dr. E. Muriana, Dr. C. Portelli, Dr. M. Rampin, Dr. B. Skorjanec, Dr. A. Vallarino, Dr. T. Verbitz

 

     Therapeutic stratagems for the various types of:

 

10,45a.m.  Panic attack disorder: when panic attacks occurs, when everything you do is suffering so as not to have more panic attacks;

 

11,00a.m. Panic attack disorder with somatic effects: burning and wetting;

 

11,15a.m. Patho-phobic disorder: when phobic fixation is a specific disease, when phobic fixation is generalized;

 

11,30a.m. Phobic disorders: when it is oriented to a specific condition or situation (for example the fear of being alone or going away alone);

 

11,45a.m. Dysmorphophobia;

 

12,00p.m.  Obsessive disorders: when obsession is the search to control that make you lose control; when obsessions are images which come to you over and over again;

 

12,15p.m.  Fear based obsessive-compulsive disorder: preventive-rational compulsions, propitiatory compulsions, repairing compulsion, generalised  compulsion;

 

12,30p.m.  Pleasure based obsessive-compulsive disorder: compulsive shopping, trichotillomania, self-injuring, compulsive skin picking;

 

12,45p.m.  Pathological doubting;

 

13,00p.m.  Paranoiac disorder: paranoia related to the past,  paranoia related to the present, paranoia related to the future,  paranoia with persecution mania;

 

13,15 p.m.  Post-traumatic disorder: when only the memory devastating effect occurs, when the post-traumatic disorder develops into another disorder which tends to conceal it (for example obsessive-compulsive disorder, eating disorder, panic attacks disorder);

 

13,30p.m.  Violence towards others: domestic violence, gang and herd effect, sexual abuse, bullyins, homicide;

 

13,45p.m.  Self harming: self- injuring, suicide and para-suicide;

 

14,00p.m.  Demo: “Alternative solutions: demonstration”;  Prof. G. Nardone

 

14,45p.m.  Sexual disorder: dyspareunia, erection deficit, anorgasmia, lack of desire, performance anxiety, perversions;

 

15,00p.m.  Anorexia: juvenile anorexia, chronic anorexia;

 

15,15p.m.  Bulimia: yo-yo when losing and gaining  weight continuously, artichoke when fat becomes a protection, boterians when fat is placid and nice, binge eating when prolonged abstinence is alternated by massive binges;

 

15,30p.m.  Vomiting: purging so as to remain underweight (anorexia nervosa), purging in search of  pleasure (bulimia nervosa), juvenile vomiting and chronic vomiting;

 

15,45p.m.  Depressive disorder: depression followinf a devastating event (grief, loss, failure); depressionout of  a dissatisfaction;

 

16,00p.m.  Relational disorders: variants in couple therapy, variants in indirect therapy, therapy with children and adolescents;

 

16,15p.m.  Internet addiction disorder: on-line compulsive shopping, on-line gambling, on-line trading, chat-mania, cybersexual addiction, overloading information;

 

16,30p.m.  Psychosis or presumed psychosis: managing delirium, managing isolation, managing histrionics;

 

16,45p.m.  Undirected therapies: strategic intervention with child via the family, strategic intervention on adolescent via his family, strategic intervention on reluctant patient via his family;

 

5,30p.m.   Selected Communications: Presentation of single cases solved by new techniques.

 

7,00p.m.  End of Session

 

 

 

4^th DAY  SUNDAY  14^th NOVEMBER

 

Unsuccessful management and dysfunctional organizations

 

9,00a.m.        Presentation: “Creating a more sustainable work and lifestyle. On the importance of personal growth in business organization”; Dr. M. Broecker

 

9,30a.m.       Presentation: “Strategic device for performance and health preservation in companies”;   Dr. T. Garcia

 

10,00a.m.      Presentation: “Being brief in business”;   Dr. Manuel Diaz

 

10,30a.m.      Presentation: “Ethical dismissal of employees”;  Dr. M. Lo Campo, Chief Business Integration Officer of Elica Group S.p.a.  

 

11,00a.m.      Awards: “Best Strategic Problem Solver of the year” & “Best Strategic Communicator of the year”; 

 

12,00p.m.      Presentation: “The different aspects of fear in managerial management”;  Dr. P. Sobral, General Director of Caso l.s.

 

12,30p.m.      Presentation: “How can head masters handle effectively the crisis in educational policies and system by applying strategic problem solving techniques”;    Dr. A. Artini, Head master  

 

13,00p.m.   Presentation: “Strategic problem solving to support leadership and individual team communication”;    Col. f. s.SM D. Roma, Italian Army General Staff

 

13,30p.m. Presentation: “Managerial choices and strategic problem solving: an individual’s professional experience of the Italian mail services”;     Dr. P. Marchese, Marketing Manager Poste Italiane s.p.a.   

Besides, they will speak:

 

- Dr. F. Carimati, Training Manager of Mediaset;

- Dr. S. Tani, Manager of Florence District;

- Dr. M. Soriani Bellavista, CEO of Creattività s.r.l.;

- Dr. R. Prato Previde, Managerial Consultant and Trainer;

- Dr. P. Mordazzi, Trainer and Researcher of Centro di Terapia Strategica;

- R. Milanese, Trainer and Researcher of Centro di Terapia Strategica;

- J.J. Wittezaele, Director of IGB Parigi e Liegi.

 

 

3,00p.m. Conclusive Workshop: “Creating out of nothing: developing creativity through Strategic Problem Solving”; Prof. G. Nardone

 

5,00p.m.    Conclusions

 

6,00p.m.     End of Session

 

 

• During the conference the restaurant of the venue will be open from 12pm to 2,30pm; it will offer la carte menu or menu with fixed prices;  basket packed lunch  9,00 euros; buffet lunch 18,00 euros.

 

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