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XXVVII Annual Course of Schizophrenia
“Empathy, attachment and therapeutic alliance in psychosis”
Madrid, 10-11 November, 2024



WORKSHOP 1
“Working with trauma and attachment in psychosis from the perspective of the EMDR”
Prof. Anabel González Vázquez
Psychiatrist. Coordinator of the trauma and dissociation program. Hospital Universitario de La Coruña.

WORKSHOP 2
“The personal care in mental health, a figure under construction”
Prof. Teresa Orihuela Villameriel
Psychologist Specialized in Clinical Psychology.
Prof. Loreto Cantero López
Management in Services and Quality. Director of the MainJobs Group Project. Valladolid.

“Empathy and Psychosis”
Prof. Manuel González de Chávez
Ex- President of the International Society for the Psychological and Social Approaches to Psychosis.

“The Ponzano Project: a day hospital experience for attachment-based bond focused psychotic disorders”
Prof. Diego Figuera Álvarez
Psychiatrist and psychotherapist. Director of the Ponzano Day Hospital of the Institute of Psychiatry and Mental Health of the Hospital Clínico San Carlos of Madrid.

“Psychotic anxiety and the therapeutic alliance”
Prof. Dag Söderström
Psychiatrist, Psychoanalyst IPA and Vice Chair ISPS. Lausanne. Switzerland.

“Disguised Recollections of Trauma Represented in Psychotic Symptoms: Implications for Psychotherapy”
Prof. Michael Garrett
Professor Emeritus of Clinical Psychiatry. Department of Psychiatry SUNY Downstate Medical Center. New York.

“How can research into attachment theory and psychosis inform psychological therapies?"
Prof. Katherine Berry
Professor in Clinical Psychology at the University of Manchester.

“Positive Psychotherapy for Psychosis: beneficial adjunct or toxic positivity?”
Prof. Mike Slade
Professor of Mental Health Recovery and Social Inclusion, University of Nottingham.

“The art of accompanying”
Prof. Fernando Colina
Ex-Head of the Psychiatry Department and Psychiatrist Emeritus of the Hospital Universitario Río Hortega. Valladolid.

FINAL COLLOQUIUM
With Michael Garrett, Dag Söderström, Katherine Berry, Mike Slade, Fernando Colina, Diego Figuera and Manuel González de Chávez.


XXVI COURSE OF SCHIZOPHRENIA
“Dissociation and integration in psychosis”
10th - 12th november, 2022


WORKSHOP 1
“Principles of a psychotherapy of psychosis: the word and the transference”
Prof. Dr. José María Álvarez
Coordinator of the Unit of Specialized Psychotherapy. Río Hortega Hospital. Valladolid.

WORKSHOP 2
“Introduction to Open Dialogue. Key elements”
Prof. Teresa Abad Sierra
Psicóloga. Centro de día y Equipo de Apoyo Sociocomunitario (EASC) San Blas, Madrid. Fundación Manantial.
Prof. Sara Toledano Márquez
Psicóloga, Directora Técnica. Fundación Manantial.

COURSE INAUGURATION

“THE FRAGMENTATION OF IDENTITY IN DISSOCIATION AND PSYCHOSIS”
Prof. Manuel González de Chávez
Ex- President of the International Society for the Psychological and Social Approaches to Psychosis.

“HALLUCINATIONS IN DISSOCIATION AND IN SCHIZOPHRENIA”
Prof. Anabel González Vázquez
Psychiatrist. Coordinator of the Trauma and Dissociation Program. Hospital Universitario of La Coruña.

“DIFFERENTIATING DISSOCIATIVE IDENTITY DISORDER FROM SCHIZOPHRENIA”

“INTEGRATION IN THE DISSOCIATED SELF- STATES MODEL / HEALING FRAGMENTATION IN THE THERAPEUTIC CONNECTION”
Prof. Dr. Elizabeth Howell
Faculty and Supervisor for the Trauma Program, Manhattan Institute for Psychoanalysis.

“CHILDHOOD TRAUMA AND DISSOCIATION IN SCHIZOPHRENIC DISORDER”

“DISSOCIATIVE PSYCHOSIS: RECONSIDERATION OF A NEGLECTED DIAGNOSTIC CATEGORY”
Prof. Dr. Vedat Sar
M.D Chair of Department of Psychiatry Koc University School of Medicine (KUSOM). Istanbul.

“COGNITIVE-BEHAVIOURAL PROCESSES IN THE DEVELOPMENT AND MAINTENANCE OF TRAUMA-RELATED PSYCHOSIS”

“CBT FOR TRAUMA-RELATED PSYCHOSIS”
Prof. Dr. Tony Morrison
Professor of Clinical Psychology at the University of Manchester.

“PSYCHOSIS, DISSOCIATION AND TRAUMA. CONCEPTUAL ASPECTS”

“PSYCHOTHERAPY OF PSYCHOSIS - A CASE PERSPECTIVE”
Prof. Dr. Markus Heinimaa
Clinical Lecturer. Department of Psychiatry University of Turku.

“PSYCHOSIS OR MAD REALITY? WORKING WITH PATIENTS WITH DISSOCIATIVE IDENTITY DISORDER”

“WHERE INTEGRATION CANNOT HAPPEN: WORKING WITH SPLIT VOICES”
Prof. Dra. Valerie Sinason
Founder Director of the Clinic for Dissociative Studies of London.

CLOSING COLLOQUIUM
Valerie Sinason, Elizabeth Howell, Vedat ?ar, Markus Heinimaa, Anabel González Vázquez.



XXV CURSO DE ESQUIZOFRENIA
Virtual Special Course 2021
"Helping people with psychotic experiences"
November, 25th and 26th, 2021


Inauguration
"Pioneers in the psychotherapy of schizophrenia"
Prof. Manuel González de Chávez
Former President of the International Society for the Psychological and Social Approaches to Psychosis.

"Cultivating the well-being of people with schizophrenia. Protocol of a third generation group intervention."
Prof. Dra. Carmen Valiente Ots
Professor at the Complutense University of Madrid. Assistance Director of the University Clinic of the UCM.

"Multifamily psychotherapy in incipient psychosis: an interdisciplinary and community approach"
Prof. Anna Sala Estrada
Clinical Psychologist. Psychosis Intervention Team (EIPP Baix Empordà). Institute of Health Care (IAS).

"Obstacles in team and institutional work with seriously ill patients"
Prof. Antonio Tari García
Psychiatrist, Coordinator of the Romareda Day Center of Sector III of SALUD (Zaragoza).
Prof. Federico Suárez Gayo
Psychologist. Member of the Management Team of the Training School of "Área 3. Association for the study of group, psychosocial and institutional issues", Madrid.

"Dissociative voices and parts, an approach based on trauma"
Prof. Dolores Mosquera
Director of the Institute for the Study of Trauma and Personality Disorders (INTRA-TP). A Coruña.

"Narrative therapies in the recovery of people with psychosis"
Prof.Mariano Hernández Monsalve
Supervisor of community mental health teams. Ex-president AEN-Profesionales de Salud Mental.


II VIRTUAL WORKSHOPS DAYS
May 20, 2021



Group psychotherapy for family members of patients with severe mental disorders: Acceptance therapy, commitment, communication training and mindfulness.
Prof. Gloria Mª Roldán Maldonado. Specialist in clinical psychology and coordinator of the Mental Health Day Hospital of the Hospital Universitario Virgen de las Nieves (SAS).


I VIRTUAL WORKSHOPS DAYS
November, 5, 12, 19 and 26, 2020



NOVEMBER 5, 2020
Workshop 1: A new group setting to treat psychosis from the model of the states of consciousness.
Prof. Adolfo García de Sola Márquez. Psychologist, Mental Health Therapeutic Community. South Health Management Area of Seville.

NOVEMBER 12, 2020
Workshop 2: Home hospitalization
Prof. Carmen Cañada. Psychiatrist and coordinator of the Home Hospitalization program at the Hospital Príncipe de Asturias in Alcalá de Henares (Madrid).

NOVEMBER 19, 2020
Workshop 3 | Research methodology in group psychotherapy in psychosis
Prof. Lina Tost, Head of the Psychiatry Service of the University Hospital of La Candelaria in Tenerife and Prof. Cecilio Sotomayor, psychiatrist and coordinator of the Assertive Community Team (ECA) of the University Hospital of La Candelaria in Tenerife.

NOVEMBER 26, 2020
Workshop 4. Multifamily therapies: A new psychoeducational and community proposal through interfamily therapy.
Prof. Javier Sempere. Director of the Interfamily Therapy Center of Elche, Alicante.



XXIV ANNUAL COURSE OF SCHIZOPHRENIA
“PSICOSIS, SUPERACIÓNY AYUDA MUTUA”
Madrid, 28th November - 30st December, 2019

WORKSHOP 1
“The practice of psychosocial rehabilitation in the current mental health care”

Prof. Francisco R. Pulido, Professor of Psychiatry University of La Laguna (Tenerife) and Prof. Ricardo Guinea, Former President of World Association for Psychosocial Rehabilitation.

WORKSHOP 2
“Early intervention in psychosis: a critical overview"

Prof. Vicente Ibáñez Rojo
Director of the Early Intervention Program in Psychosis of Almeria.

WORKSHOP 3
“Multifamily therapies: community intervention in psychosis through interfamilial therapy”

Prof. Javier Sempere
Director of Interfamily Therapy Center of Elche, Alicante.

WORKSHOP 4 "
Drama therapy in persons with severe mental disorder"

Prof. Pedro Miguel Martín Cuadrado
Responsible for the area of Drama Therapy of the Canary Island Association of Creative Therapies-ASCATEC.

“A CENTURY OF GROUP PSYCHOTHERAPY IN PSYCHOSIS”

Prof. Manuel González de Chávez, Ex- President of the International Society for the Psychological and Social Approaches to Psychosis.

HOW AND WHY GROUP THERAPY IN PSYCHOSIS IS USEFUL

Prof. Ignacio García Cabeza, Professor of Psychiatry. Complutense University of Madrid. Hospital Gregorio Marañon.

GROUP CBT FOR INDIVIDUALS WITH PSYCHOSIS: UNDERSTANDING ITS EFFECTIVENESS ON SYMPTOMS AND WORK OUTCOMES

WHAT ABOUT LOVE? GROUP INTERVENTION FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF ROMANTIC RELATIONSHIPS IN EARLY PSYCHOSIS

Prof. Tania Lecomte, Professor in the Department of Psychology, Université de Montréal, and Senior Researcher at the Research Center of the Mental Health University Institute of Montreal.

DEAR PSYCHOSIS, YOU’VE PULLED MY FAMILY CLOSER TOGETHER, THANKS. MULTI-FAMILY GROUP EXPERIENCES IN AN EARLY INTERVENTION IN PSYCHOSIS SERVICE

THERE IS NOTHING MORE TERRIBLE THAN A LACK OF RESPONSE. THE CHALLENGE FOR PRACTITIONERS AND SERVICES IMPLEMENTING OPEN DIALOGUE

Prof. Val Jackson, Systemic psychotherapist, Open Dialogue Trainer.

PEER SUPPORT INTERVENTIONS: WHERE WE STARTED AND WHERE WE ARE NOW

PARTNERING WITH PEOPLE WITH MENTAL ILLNESS TO ENHANCE RESEARCH AND PROGRAMS

Prof. Chyrell D. Bellamy,Associate Professor of Yale School of Medicine’s Department of Psychiatry, Program for Recovery and Community Health, Director of Peer Services/ Research.


USES AND ABUSES OF COMMUNITY MEETINGS ON PSYCHIATRIC WARDS

STAFF SUPPORT GROUPS: BENEFITS AND RISKS AND HOW TO MANAGE THEM

Prof. David Kennard, Clinical psychologist and Group analyst.Former Head of Psychological Therapy at The Retreat in York

THE PSYCHOTIC EXPERIENCES MIRRORED IN THE PSYCHOTHERAPEUTIC SETTINGS: THE MIND AND BRAIN IN DISCOORDINATION

THE PLACE OF SUPERVISION IN THE TREATMENT OF PATIENTS SUFFERING FROM PSYCHOSIS: A PSYCHODYNAMIC APPROACH

Prof. Ivan Urlić, Professor of Psychiatry and Psychological Medicine University of Split, Croatia, Group analyst.

CLOSING COLLOQUIUM

Ivan Urlić, David Kennard, Val Jackson, Tania Lecomte and Chyrell Bellamy

Note: All the workshops will be in Spanish. No simultaneous translation will be provided.



XXIII ANNUAL COURSE OF SCHIZOPHRENIA
“EMOTIONS AND RISKS IN PSYCHOSIS”
Madrid, 29th November - 1st December, 2018

Inauguración del curso: inauguration:

Dr. Mikel Munarriz. President of AEN
Dr. Carmen Cañada. President of Madrid Mental Health Association
Dr. Manuel González de Chávez. Course Organizer

WORKSHOP 1
“A new group framework to treat psychosis from the model of consciousness states”

Prof. Adolfo García de Sola Márquez. Psychologist. Therapeutic Community of Mental Health. South Health Management Area of Seville.

WORKSHOP 2
“Mental Health Street Team”

Prof. Elena Medina Téllez de Meneses and Prof. Rafael Fernández
García-Andrade, Psychiatrists.
Coordinators of the Mental Health Street Team (ECASAM), Program of “Psychiatric Care to Homeless Mental Health Patient of the Community of Madrid.

WORKSHOP 3
“Animal-assisted therapy in rehabilitation resources as support in the personal recovery process”

Prof. Mariola Vitutia. Psychologist and researcher. Work Rehabilitation Center of the Community of Madrid, Intress, Institute of social work and social services.
Prof. Ernesto Ares Sainz, Coordinator of the Assistance Services Department of the Fundación Canis Majoris, Expert in Animal-Assisted Interventions and Dog Trainer.

WORKSHOP 4 (English workshop)
“Telling the Untold Stories: A Relational Approach for Working with Anger and Rage”

Prof. Sue Parker Hall. Relational Certified Transactional Analyst (Psychotherapy). Cornwall, England.

Note: All the workshops, but Workshop 4, will be in Spanish.
No simultaneous translation will be provided.

COURSE INAUGURATION
“SHAME AND GUILT IN PSYCHOSIS”

Prof. Manuel González de Chávez, Ex-President of the International Society for the Psychological and Social Approaches to Psychosis

“VIOLENCE: FROM COLLECTIVE OR STRUCTURAL VIOLENCE TO THE STIGMA OF PSYCHOSIS”
Prof. Mariano Hernández Monsalve

”DIFFERENTIATING ANGER FROM RAGE: A THEORY AND A PSYCHOTHERAPEUTIC PROCESS”
“FINDING ORDER IN CHAOS AND CHAOS IN ORDER: WORKING WITH RAGE WITH BORDERLINE AND NARCISSISTIC PERSONALITY TRAITS”

Prof. Sue Parker Hall, Relational Certified Transactional Analyst (Psychotherapy). Cornwall, England

“ROUTINE ENQUIRY ABOUT ADVERSITY IN CHILDHOOD (REACH) – HOW ASKING THE RIGHT QUESTIONS CAN CHANGE THE WORLD”

“AN OUNCE OF PREVENTION IS BETTER THAT A POUND OF CURE” WHY MORE AND BETTER THERAPIES = TOO LITTLE TOO LATE”

Prof. Dr. Warren Larkin, Consultant Clinical Psychologist. Clinical Lead for the Department of Health Adverse Childhood Experiences Programme. Director at Warren Larkin Associates Ltd.

“ATTACHMENT AND PSYCHOSIS: AT RISK MENTAL STATES, FIRST EPISODE-PRESENTATION AND DEVELOPMENT. A PATHWAYS TO RISK RESILIENCE”

“EARLY INTERVENTION IN HIGH RISK AND FIRST EPISODE PSYCHOSIS – A RANDOMISED CASE SERIES OF PSYCHOLOGICAL INTERVENTIONS AND MOMENTARY ASSESSMENT AUGMENTATION”
Prof. Matthias Schwannauer, Head of Clinical Health Psychology University of Edinburgh

“SUICIDE RISK IN SCHIZOPHRENIA”

“SUBSTANCE ABUSE, SUICIDE RISK AND LONG-ACTING INJECTIONS IN SCHIZOPHRENIA”

Prof. Maurizio Pompili, Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Professor of Suicidology Faculty of Medicine and Psychology Sapienza University of Rome
           
“THE KEY ROLE OF EMOTIONS IN SCHIZOPHRENIA: FACTS AND GENERAL THERAPEUTIC CONSEQUENCES”

“SOTERIA BERNE.THREE DECADES OF EXPERIENCE WITH AN EMOTION-BASED UNDERSTANDING OF SCHIZOPHRENIA”

Prof. Luc Ciompi, EmeritusMedicalDirector of the Socio-psychiatric University Clinic in Berne/Switzerland and Co-chair of the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Berne

 




XXII ANNUAL COURSE OF SCHIZOPHRENIA
“HALLUCINATORY EXPERIENCES AND THERAPEUTIC POSSIBILITIES”
Madrid, 23rd - 25th November 2017


Inauguración del curso: inauguration:

Dr. Ricardo Guinea. President of the XIII WAPR World Congress
Dra. Eudoxia Gay. President of the Scientific Committee of the XXVII Congress of the AEN
Dr. Manuel González de Chávez. Course Organizer

WORKSHOP 1
“Home hospitalization in mental health: characteristics, essential components and results”

Prof. Ana Moreno Pérez. Psychiatrist. Hospital Príncipe of Asturias, Alcalá de Henares, Madrid.

WORKSHOP 2
“Seeing oneself on the screen. Cinema as a tool for therapeutic intervention in severe mental disease.”

Professors María Martín Martín-Blas, Psychiatrist. Hospital Infanta Sofía, Madrid, and Inés García del Castillo, Psychiatrist, HM Hospitals of Madrid.

WORKSHOP 3
“Therapy oriented towards increasing mentalization capacity for borderline patients”

Prof. Josefina Mas Hesse, Psychiatrist. Coordinator of the Day Hospital. Alcalá de Henares, Madrid.

WORKSHOP 4
“Key aspects of the evaluation and intervention in psychosis from
an evolutionary perspective “

Prof. Margarita Alcamí Pertejo, Psychiatrist, Child and Adolescent Unit, Psychiatry Service of the University Hospital La Paz, Madrid and Prof. Paloma Ortíz Soto, Psychiatrist, and Psychotherapist of children and adolescents. Center ADI, Madrid.

WORKSHOP 5 / ENGLISH WORKSHOP
“How to apply Hallucination Focused Integrative therapy: the best you can get”

Prof. Jack Jenner, Emeritus Professor in Community Psychiatry.
Former Head of the Outpatient Department of the Academic Hospital of Groningen, Netherlands
Note: Workshops 1 - 4 will be in Spanish. Workshop 5 will be in English
No simultaneous translation will be provided

Presentation of accreditation, documentation, book and
bibliographic dossier of the Course

COURSE INAUGURATION

DIFFERENT HALLUCINATORY EXPERIENCES, DIFFERENT OBJECTIVES AND THERAPEUTIC POSSIBILITIES”
Prof. Manuel González de Chávez Ex- President of the International Society for the Psychological and Social Approaches to Psychosis

“TREATING HALLUCINATIONS WITHOUT GIVING THEM GREATER IMPORTANCE: FROM THE SYMPTOM TO THE LIFE”
Prof. José Manuel García Montes. Professor of Area of Personality, Evaluation and
Psychological Treatments of the University of Almería.

”THE PERSONAL HISTORY OF THE VOICE HEARER AND THE VOICES AND RELATING
WITH VOICES. SYSTEMATIC ENQUIRY AND COMMUNICATING WITH VOICES”

“LEARNING TO COMMUNICATE ABOUT AND WITH VOICES INSTEAD OF PSYCHOEDUCATION. TEN YEARS EXPERIENCE WITH 'WORKING WITH VOICES' COURSES”
Prof. Dirk Corstens. Social Psychiatrist and Psychotherapist MET GGZ (Mental Health Organization), Roermond, Netherlands.

“ DON’T REACT – CHOOSE HOW TO RELATE TO DISTRESSINVGO ICES: AN INTRODUCTION TO RETLIANG THERAPY “
” SUSSEX VOICES CLINIC – INCREASING ACCESS TO EVIDENCE-BASED PSYCHOLOGICAL THERAPY FOR NHS PATIENTS DISTRESSED BY HEARING VOICES”

Prof. Mark Hayward. Director of Research at Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust. Honorary Senior Lecturer at the University of Sussex

“COGNITIVE THERAPY FOR REDUCING HARMFUL COMPLIANCE WITH DISTRESSING VOICES”
“TEAM BASED COGNITIVE THERAPY (TBCT) FOR PSYCHOLOGICAYL TLREATMENT RESISTANT PATIENTS WITH DISTRESSING VOICES AND BEHAVIORAL NEEDS”

Prof. Alan Meaden. Professor of Complex Care at Birmingham City University.
Consultant Clinical Psychologist for Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust.

“A MODEL OF PSYCHOTIC HALLUCINATION AND ITS THERAPY”
“A CASE OF PSYCHOANALYTICAL THERAPY OF HALLUCINATED PSYCHOTIC PATIENT”

Prof. Guy Gimenez. Professor of Clinical Psychopathology, Director of LPCLS Multidisciplinary Research Laboratory of Aix-Marseille University

“ HALLUCINATION FOCUSED INTEGRATIVE THERAPY FOR SUICIDAL PERSONS”
“ HALLUCINATION FOCUSED INTEGRATIVE THERAPY FOR TRAUMATISED PATIENTS”

Prof. Jack Jenner. Emeritus Professor in Community Psychiatry.
Former Head of the Outpatient Department of the Academic Hospital of Groningen, Netherlands.

CLOSING COLLOQUIUM
Jack Jenner, Alan Meaden , Mark Hayward
Dirk Corstens and Guy Gimenez


XXI ANNUAL COURSE OF SCHIZOPHRENIA
“FRAGILITY, ADVERSITY AND NEW THERAPIES IN PSYCHOSIS”
Madrid, December 1st - 3rd, 2016


Course inauguration:

Dr. Jhon Read. Professor of Clinical Psychology at the University of East London, UK.
Dr. Marino Pérez Álvarez. Professor of University in the Department of Psychology of the University of Oviedo
Dr. Manuel González de Chávez. Course Organizer

WORKSHOP 1.
"A mental health therapeutic community as a recovery space. The role of a middle and long stay unit in a public community network"
Professor Margarita Laviana Cuetos, clinical psychologist. Coordinator of the Therapeutic Communities of Mental Health I and II, and the Community Intensive Treatment Team of Hospital Virgen del Rocío, Seville.

WORKSHOP 2.
"The application of shared decision making (SDM) in patients with severe mental disorder: DECIDE study"

Professors José María Villagrán Moreno, Coordinator of the Psychiatric Hospitalization Unit of the Clinical Management Unit of Mental Health of the Hospital of Jerez de la Frontera, Cádiz, and José I. Pérez Revuelta, psychiatrist and investigator of the Foundation for Management of Biomedical Research of Cádiz.

WORKSHOP 3.
"Photographic image as a psychotherapeutic intervention technique" for borderline patients”

Professors Asís González Ayerbe, photographer and graphic designer. Director of the editorial “Los Duelistas”. Director of the editorial “Los Duelistas”, and Javier Gutiérrez Igarza psychologist and group analyst, in the Therapeutic Community Hogar Izarra, Bilbao.

WORKSHOP 4.
"Work with families in the improvement of the evolution of the schizophrenia (Julian Leff method)"

Professor Manuel Girón, psychiatrist of the multidisciplinary team in the Mental Health Center of Ciutat Jardí (Alicante)

"SYMBIOSIS, FRAGILITY, AND PSYCHOSIS?"
Prof. Manuel González de Chávez. Ex- President of the International Society for the Psychological and Social Approaches to Psychosis

"ATTACHMENT AND PSYCHOSIS. VULNERABILITY AND EMOTION-FOCUSED PSYCHOTHERAPY"
Prof. Diego Figuera Alvarez. Director of the Psychotherapy Teaching Unit and of the Ponzano Day Hospital, Hospital Clínico San Carlos, Madrid.

"ATTACHMENT AND PSYCHOSIS. VULNERABILITY AND EMOTION-FOCUSED PSYCHOTHERAPY"
Prof. Diego Figuera Alvarez. Director of the Psychotherapy Teaching Unit and of the Ponzano Day Hospital, Hospital Clínico San Carlos, Madrid.

"DISORDERED SELVES OR PERSONS WITH SCHIZOPHRENIA?"

"WHAT IS WRONG WITH THE CONCEPT OF  PSYCHOSIS? DIFFERENTIAL PHENOMENOLOGY OF SCHIZOPHRENIC AND MELANCHOLIC DELUSIONS"
Prof. Giovanni Stanghellini. Professor of Dynamic Psychology and Psychopathology at "G. d'Annunzio" University (Chieti, Italy)  

"THE SOCIAL CAUSES OF MADNESS: A RESEARCH UPDATE"

"THE ROLE OF BIO-GENETIC CAUSAL BELIEFS IN MAINTAINING PREJUDICE   AGAINST PEOPLE DIAGNOSED 'SCHIZOPHRENIC"

Prof. John Read. Professor of Clinical Psychology at the University of East London, UK.

"TRAUMATIC VULNERABILITY AS AN INDICATOR OF A GOOD RESPONSE TO CBT IN PATIENTS WITH SCHIZOPHRENIA SPECTRUM DISORDER WHO REFUSE ANTIPSYCHOTIC  MEDICATION"

"TREATING CLIENTS WITH TRAUMATIC PSYCHOSIS WITH METHOD OF LEVELS THERAPY BASED ON  PERCEPTUAL CONTROL THEORY"
Prof. Douglas Turkington. Professor of Psychosocial Psychiatry at Newcastle University, UK. 
                      

"EXPLORING THE MANIFESTATION AND FUNCTION OF EMOTIONAL DIFFICULTIES FOLLOWING PSYCHOSIS "

"INNOVATIONS IN PSYCHOLOGICAL THERAPIES FOR EMOTIONAL DIFFICULTIES FOLLOWING PSYCHOSIS" 
Prof. Ross White. Senior Lecturer in Clinical Psychology at the University of Glasgow

"MINDFULNESS, ACCEPTANCE AND VALUES: PROCESSES OF CHANGE IN ACCEPTANCE AND COMMITMENT THERAPY FOR PSYCHOSIS"

"ACCEPTANCE AND COMMITMENT THERAPY GROUPS FOR PEOPLE RECOVERING FROM PSYCHOSIS"
Prof. Eric Morris. Director of the Psychology Clinic, La Trobe University,  Melbourne, Australia.

CLOSING COLLOQUIUM
John Read, Douglas Turkington,  Ross White and Eric Morris




XX ANNUAL COURSE OF SCHIZOPHRENIA
"IMAGINATION, REGRESION AND RECOVERY IN PSYCHOSIS"
Madrid, November 26th - 28th, 2015


Inauguration

Dr. Mikel Munarriz, President of Spanish Association of Neuropsychiatry
Dr. Mariano Hernández Monsalve, Psychiatrist and psychotherapist. Ex- President of Spanish Association of Neuropsychiatry.
Dr. Manuel González de Chávez. Course Organizer.

WORKSHOP 1.
"Psychotherapeutic interventions that promote metacognition and social cognition in psychosis"

Professor Guillermo Lahera Forteza. Psychiatrist, Professor of Psychiatry and Medical Psychology. School of Medicine. University of Alcalá.

WORKSHOP 2.
"Application of multifamilial group in an early psychosis program"
Professors Mónica Montoro Lus.
Psychiatrist, psychotherapist, Coordinator of the Early Psychosis Program of the Sants Mental Health Center at the Hospital Sant Pere Claver Foundation of Barcelona and Juan Manuel Blanqué López, Psychiatrist, ex–Coordinator of the Early Psychosis Program of the Sants Mental Health Center at the Hospital Sant Pere Claver Foundation of Barcelona.

WORKSHOP  3.
"Group psychotherapy for family members of patients with Severe Mental Disorders: Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Training in Communication and Mindfulness"

Professor Gloria Mª Roldán Maldonado. Clinical Psychologist. Coordinator of the Mental Health Day Hospital Licinio de la Fuente. University Hospital Virgen de las Nieves of Granada (SAS). 

WORKSHOP 4.
"Methodology of research in group psychotherapy in psychosis" 

Professors Lina Tost Pardell. Psychiatrist at the University Hospital La Candelaria in Tenerife and Coordinator of the Mental Health Unit of Ofra andCecilio Hdez. A. de Sotomayor, psychiatrist and Coordinator of the Assertive Community Team (ACT) of Tenerife (SCS). 

IMAGINATION AND REGRESSION IN PSYCHOSIS
Prof. Manuel González de Chávez. Ex- President of the International Society for the Psychological and Social Approaches to Psychosis

"RECOVERY PERSPECTIVE: NEW THERAPEUTIC FRAMEWORKS AND NEW SERVICES"
Prof. Mariano Hernández Monsalve. Psychiatrist and psychotherapist. Ex- President of Spanish Association of Neuropsychiatry. Spain.
         
"THE PERSON WITH SCHIZOPHRENIA"
"HELPING THE PERSON WITH SCHIZOPHRENIA"

Prof. John Strauss is Emeritus Professor of Psychiatry at the Yale University School of Medicine. USA.

"BRINGING PSYCHOSIS IN FROM THE COLD. SEEING ANOMALOUS EXPERIENCING IN THE WIDER HUMAN CONTEXT".
"WHAT IS REAL AND WHAT IS NOT". A THERAPEUTIC APPROACH TO PSYCHOSIS THAT TAKES EXPERIENCE SERIOUSLY AND UNDERMINES STIGMA".

Prof. Isabel Clarke, Consultant Clinical Psychologist, Southern Health NHS Trust and Secretary of the Spiritual Crisis Network, United Kingdom.

"THE SOCIAL NATURE OF RECOVERY BETWEEN SUBJECTIVITY AND INSTITUTIONS" 
"A CRITICAL APPROACH TO INTEGRATED COMMUNITY CARE OF PEOPLE WITH PSYCHOSIS - THE EXPERIENCE IN TRIESTE"

Prof. Roberto Mezzina, Psychiatrist, Director of the Department of Mental Health in Trieste, Italy.

"METACOGNITIVE DEFICITS IN ADULTS WITH PSYCHOTIC DISORDERS, ASSOCIATIONS WITH OUTCOME" 

"METACOGNITIVE DEFICITS IN ADULTS WITH PSYCHOTIC DISORDERS, IMPLICATIONS FOR TREATMENT"

Prof. Paul H. Lysaker, Professor of Clinical Psychology in the Department of Psychiatry in the Indiana University School of Medicine. USA.

"WHAT WE HAVE LEARNED ABOUT RECOVERY FROM PSYCHOSIS"
"WHAT WE HAVE LEARNED ABOUT PROMOTING RECOVERY FROM PSYCHOSIS"

Prof. Larry Davidson, Professor of Psychology and Director of the Program for Recovery and Community Health at the School of Medicine and Institution for Social and Policy Studies of Yale University. USA.

CLOSING COLLOQUIUM
John Strauss, Larry Davidson, Paul Lysaker, Isabel Clarke and Roberto Mezzina.

XIX ANNUAL COURSE OF SCHIZOPHRENIA
"INTUITIONS, DELUSIONS AND THERAPIES"
Madrid, November 20th - 22th, 2014


Inauguration

Dr. Victor Aparacio Basauri. Chief of the Psychiatry Service. Asturias.
Dr. Ignacio García Cabeza. Coordinator ISPS Spain.
Dr. Manuel González de Chávez. Course Organizer.

WORKSHOP 1.
"Family intervention in persons diagnosed of schizophrenia in a mental health network"

Professors: Ernesto Baena Ruiz. Clinical Psychologist. Coordinator of Psychosocial Rehabilitation Center of the Canary Islands and Rafael Touriño González. Psychiatrist. Director of the Psychosocial Rehabilitation Island Plan of the Canary Islands.

WORKSHOP 2.
"Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) applied to psychotic symptoms"

Professors: Dr. Marino Pérez Álvarez, Head Professor of the University in the Psychology Department of the University of  Oviedo and Dr. José M. García Montes, Staff  Professor of the University in the Psychology Department of the University of Almería.

WORKSHOP  3.
"Internet as a tool to share and construct views around psychosis:  Tearing down walls and Psychophotos"

Professors; Esther Sanz,  Clinical Psychologist of the Outpatient Area of  Mental Health of  Tenerife and Oscar Martinez  Azumendi, Chief of the Bizkaia Mental Health Network Service of  Inland Region of  Osakidetza.

WORKSHOP 4.
"Emotional reality of the persons with psychotic conditions" 

Professor Henry Zvi Lothane, Department of  Psychiatry. Icahn  School of Medicine. Mount Sinai Hospital, New York.

               
"INTUITIONS AND DELUSIONS"                           
Prof. Manuel González de Chávez                    
Ex- President of the International Society for the Psychological and Social Approaches to Psychosis

"NORMALIZED INSANITY"
Prof. José María Álvarez
Tutor-coordinator of clinical psychology of the Hospital Universitario Río Hortega de Valladolid

"COGNITIVE AND EMOTIONAL PROCESSES IN DELUSIONS: RECENT RESEARCH EVIDENCE"

"PSYCHOLOGICAL TREATMENTS FOR PARANOIA AND DELUSIONS: NEW DEVELOPMENTS" 
Prof.  Philippa Garety 
Professor of Clinical Psychology. Institute of Psychiatry, King's College. London.

"PSYCHOTIC LIKE EXPERIENCES IN CHILDREN AND YOUNG ADULTS- NEW INTERVENTIONS" 

"CARING FOR CARERS OF THOSE WITH PSYCHOSIS"
Prof. Elizabeth Kuipers 
Professor of Clinical Psychology. Institute of Psychiatry, King's College. London.
                                                  
"SOCIAL COGNITION AND SCHIZOPHRENIA"

"SOCIAL  COGNITION AND  INTERACTION  TRAININGFOR PSYCHOSIS"
Prof. Dennis R. Combs 
Director of Psychotic Disorders Research Laboratory. Department of  Psychology.Univesity of Texas at Tyler.         

"THE LESSONS OF SCHREBER ABOUT THE PSYCHOSOCIAL APPROACH TO THE TREATMENT OF PSYCHOSIS".

"THE EMOTIONAL BODY OF DRAMATOLOGY"
Profesor Henry Zvi Lothane,
Department  of  Psychiatry. Icahn School of Medicine. Mount Sinai Hospital, New York.

"RATIONAL-EMOTIVE AND COGNITIVE-BEHAVIORAL THERAPY FOR PSYCHOTIC SYMPTOMS (E.G., DELUSION); AN EVIDENCE-BASED APPROACH"
                     
     
"VIRTUAL REALITY ASSESSMENT AND THERAPY IN THE STUDY OF PSYCHOTIC SYMPTOMS (I.E., DELUSION); IMPLICATION FOR CLINICAL RESEARCH AND CLINICAL PRACTICE" 
Prof. Daniel David
Professor of Clinical Cognitive Science at the Babeş-Bolyai University. Romanía.

CLOSING COLLOQUIUM    
Philippa Garety, Elizabeth Kuipers, Henry Zvi Lothane, Daniel David y Dennis R. Combs.


XVIII ANNUAL COURSE OF SCHIZOPHRENIA
"INNER DIALOGUE, HALLUCINATIONS AND THERAPEUTIC STRATEGIES"
Madrid, November 28th - 30th, 2013

Inauguration
Prof. Marius Romme 
Former Professor in Psychiatry at the University of Maastricht.
Founder of the Hearing Voices Movement. The Netherlands.
Prof. Sandra Escher 
Honorary Research Fellow at the Birmingham City University in Birmingham. United Kingdom.
Professor Manuel González de Chavez. Ex-President de la International Society for the Psychological and Social Approaches to Psychoses

WORKSHOP 1
"Impact of psychotic disorder: mourning and recovery"
Professors Antonio Tarí García, sychiatrist. 
Group Therapist. Coordinator of Day Center Romareda (Aragón) and Mercedes Chico del Río, Clinical Psychologist. Coordinator of the Psychosocial Rehabilitation Center of the Hospital Fuente Bermeja, Psychiatry Service. Burgos.

WORKSHOP 2
"Group interventions to increase flexibility in hospital care: how to favor the return to the community"
Professors Cristina Gisbert Aguilar, Psychiatrist. Chief of Hospital Rehabilitation Department. Subacute Unit: IAS. Girona and Susana Romero Palomino, Clinical Psychologist. Hospital Rehabilitation Department. Subacute Unit. IAS (Health Care Institute). Girona

WORKSHOP 3
"Voice hearing and meaning structure: why self-help groups are healing. Inspiration to launch the Spanish Hearing Voices Network"
Professor Olga Runciman, Psychologist of Copenhagen University, registered psychiatric nurse and voice hearer. She is a campaigner, writer and chair of the Danish Hearing Voices Network.

WORKSHOP 4
"Art therapy for recovery of persons with psychosis: "Once upon a time there was a person who felt..."
Professor Rosa Cubillo López, Head Professor of the University School of the Didactics Department of Musical, Plastic and Corporal Expression of the University of La Laguna, and director of the art therapy workshop for the recovery of persons with persistent and severe mental disorders, of the Canary Island Association of Creative Therapies (AsCaTeC).

"INNER DIALOGUE AND HALLUCINATIONS"
Prof. Manuel González de Chávez
Ex-President de la International Society for the Psychological and Social Approaches to Psychosis.

"THE MEDICALIZATION OF HALLUCINATIONS" 
Prof. Rafael Huertas
Professor of Investigation, Institute of History – Center of Human and Social Sciences. CSIC. Madrid.

"A DIALOGUE WITH THE PAST: WHAT CAN HISTORY TELL US ABOUT AUDITORY VERBAL HALLUCINATIONS ('HEARING VOICES')".
Prof. Dr. Simon McCarthy-Jones
Research Fellow at Macquarie University in Sydney. Australia

"THE VOICES WITHIN: CONTEMPORARY RESEARCH INTO INNER DIALOGUE AND AUDITORY VERBAL HALLUCINATIONS ('HEARING VOICES')"
Prof. Dr. Simon McCarthy-Jones 
Research Fellow at Macquarie University in Sydney. Australia


"PREVALENCE, COURSE AND TREATMENT OF HALLUCINATIONS IN MIDDLE AND LATE CHILDHOOD" 
Prof. Jack Jenner 
Adult, Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist, Psychotherapist and Hypnotherapist. Haren. The Nethelands.

"TRAUMA AND DISSOCIATION: MAKING SENSE OF PSYCHOSIS". 
Prof. Alison Brabban 
Honorary Clinical Senior Lecturer at Durham University. United Kingdom 

"VOICES AND SPIRITUALITY"

Prof. John Watkins 
Mental Health Counselor. Melbourne, Australia

"HALLUCINATIONS-FOCUSED INTEGRATIVE THERAPY, AN ENDURABLE (COST) EFFECTIVE TREATMENT FOR HALLUCINATIONS IRRESPECTIVE THEIR AXIS I DSM-IV-TR DIAGNOSIS".
Prof. Jack Jenner 
Adult, Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist, Psychotherapist and Hypnotherapist. Haren.The Netherlands


"A COGNITIVE BEHAVIOURAL APPROACH TO INNER DIALOGUE AND VOICES"

Prof. Alison Brabban 
Honorary Clinical Senior Lecturer at Durham University. United Kingdom.

"USING MEDICATION WISELY"
Prof. John Watkins 
Mental Health Counselor. Melbourne , Australia. 

"THE POWER WITHIN THE EXPERIENCE OF VOICE HEARERS". 
Prof. Sandra Escher 
Honorary Research Fellow at the Birmingham City University in Birmingham. United Kingdom.

"LINKS BETWEEN VOICE CHARACTERISTICS AND THE PROBLEMS OF THE VOICE HEARER". 
Prof. Marius Romme 
Former Professor in Psychiatry at the University of Maastricht.
Founder of the Hearing Voices Movement. The Netherlands.

CLOSING COLLOQUIUM ON SCHIZOPHRENIA
Marius Romme, Sandra Escher, Jack Jenner, John Watkins, Alison Brabban and Simon McCarthy-Jones.

XVII ANNUAL COURSE OF SCHIZOPHRENIA
"BIOGRAPHY, FAMILY, NARRATIVES AND PSYCHOTHERAPY FOR PSYCHOSIS"
Madrid, November 29th – December 1st, 2012

1. Inauguration of the course :
Dr. Brian Martindale, President of the International Society for the Psychological and Social Approaches to Psychoses.
Dr. Eudoxia Gay, President of the AEN
Dr. Manuel González de Chávez, Organizer of the Course

WORKSHOP 1
”Intervention with almost impossible patients: a transition program between the short hospitalization unit and the mental health center”

Professors Montserrat Caballero González, 
Psychiatrist and Juan José Belloso Ropero, Clinical Psychologist. Program of Out-patient Care for Severe Mental Disorder of the Psychiatry Service of the University Hospital 12 de Octubre de Madrid. 

WORKSHOP 2
“Motivational interview techniques in the management of psychotic disorders”

Professor José Juan Rodríguez Solano. Psychiatrist. Chief of Mental Health Service of Puente de Vallecas of the Hospital Virgen de la Torre of Madrid.

WORKSHOP 3 
“The organization of group psychotherapy spaces in the public services: a place for psychosis”

Professors Felipe Vallejo Jiménez, Clinical Psychologist. Psychotherapist. Coordinator of the Community Mental Health Unit Macarena Norte of Seville andLola Lorenzo López, Clinical Psychologist. Psychotherapist. Day Hospital of the University Hospital of Valme of Seville.

WORKSHOP 4

Rehabilitation of parental roles in women with severe mental disorder

Professor Margarita Rullas Trincado. Director of the Psychosocial Rehabilitation Center San Fernando de Henares, Madrid.

WORKSHOP 5
“Humour therapeutic application in persons with severe mental disorder”

Professors Mercedes Chico del Río. Clinical Psychologist. Coordinator of the Psychosocial Rehabilitation Center of the Hospital Fuente Bermeja, Psychiatry Service. Burgos and Alicia Martín Jurado Clinical Psychologist. Psychiatric Rehabilitation Unit of the Health Care Complex of Palencia.


INAUGURATION OF THE COURSE

“BIOGRAPHY AND PSYCHOTHERAPY OF PSYCHOSIS"

Prof. Manuel González de Chávez. Ex-President de la International Society for the Psychological and Social Approaches to
Psychoses.

“THE IDENTITY NARRATIVE OF THE PSYCHOTIC, BETWEEN ORGANIZATION AND FAMILIAL MYTHOLOGY” 
Prof. Juan Luis Linares. Staff Professor of Psychiatry of the Universidad Autónoma of Barcelona. Director of the Psychotherapy Unit and of the School of Family Therapy of the Hospital de San Pablo. Barcelona 

“THE NEED-ADAPTED-TREATMENT AS A COMPREHENSIVE AREAL
APPROACH IN THE TREATMENT OF SEVERE MENTAL HEALTH
CRISES AND INCREASING SOCIAL CAPITAL”

Prof. Jukka Aaltonen. University Professor of Family Therapy, Emeritus. University of Jyväskylä, Finland.

“IN SEARCH OF LOST TIME - FINDING TIME AGAIN: PSYCHOTIC
PATIENTS’ TRANSACTIONAL PAST, DEVELOPMENTAL PREMORBID
ACHIEVEMENTS AND TREATMENT PROCESS IN A ULTIPROFESSIONAL TEAM”

Prof. Jukka Aaltonen. University Professor of Family Therapy, Emeritus. University of Jyväskylä, Finland.

“UTILIZING PSYCHOTIC NARRATIVES IN THE FAMILY THERAPY OF
SCHIZOPHRENIA”

Prof. James Marley. Associate Professor and Director of the PhD Program at Loyola University Chicago School of Social Work.

“ENGAGING FAMILIES IN THE TREATMENT OF SCHIZOPHRENIA: A
NARRATIVE THERAPY MODEL”

Prof. James Marley. Associate Professor and Director of the PhD Program at Loyola University Chicago School of Social Work.

"PSYCHOSES: DEVELOPMENT OF MULTI-FAMILY THERAPY"

Prof. Heiner Schuff. Consultant Psychiatrist in Psychotherapy. Marlborough Family Service. London.

"PSYCHOSES: EXPERIENCE WITH RUNNING MULTI-FAMILY THERAPY GROUPS"
Prof. Heiner Schuff. Consultant Psychiatrist in Psychotherapy. Marlborough Family Service. London.

“NARRATIVE COGNITIVE BEHAVIOUR THERAPY UNDERSTANDING
OF DELUSIONS: THE TRANSFORMATION OF MEANING OVER TIME” 

Prof. John Rhodes. Consultant Clinical Psychologist in the NHS (Brent, CNWL), Honorary Lecturer at University College London.

“NARRATIVE COGNITIVE BEHAVIOUR THERAPY, DELUSIONS, AND
CHANGE”

Prof. John Rhodes. Consultant Clinical Psychologist in the NHS (Brent, CNWL), Honorary Lecturer at University College London. 


XVI ANNUAL COURSE OF SCHIZOPHRENIA
“Plural identity, dissociation, psychoses”
Madrid, November 24 to 26, 2011

1. Inauguration of the course :
Prof. Mari Fe Bravo Ortiz, Psichiatrist and Psychologist. Chief of the Psychiatrist Service of the Hospital La Paz de Madrid, Professor of Psychiatry at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (UAM)
Dr. Iván de la Mata Ruiz, President of the Asociación Madrileña de Salud Mental
Dr.Manuel González de Chávez, Organizer of the Course

WORKSHOP Nº. 1 (Spanish)
”Psychotherapy and rehabilitation in the recovery of the patients.”

Professors Mariano Hern·ndez Monsalve, psychiatrist and psychotherapist, Chief of the Mental Health Services of Tetuan of Madrid and Pilar Nieto,psychiatrist and psychotherapist of the Mental Health Services of Tetuan of Madrid.

WORKSHOP Nº. 2 
(Spanish)
“Family therapy of psychoses: between detriangulation and reconfirmation”

Professor Juan Luis Linares. Director of the Psychotherapy Unit and of the School of Family Psychotherapy of the Hospital de San Pablo of Barcelona. Staff Professor of Psychiatry of the University of Barcelona.

WORKSHOP Nº. 3 (Spanish)
“Group Psychotherapy in a Day Center for Psychotic Patients”

Professors Maria Cañete, psychiatrist and psychotherapist and group analyst, District Tower Hamlets, and Arturo Ezquerro, psychiatrist and psychotherapists and group analysis, District of Brent, London.

WORKSHOP Nº. 4 (Spanish)
“From disconnection to movement: dance movement therapy for persons with psychotic disorder.”

Professors Elena Cristóbal, Coordinator of the Dance Movement Workshop of Tenerife and Judith Nierga, Master in Dance Movement Therapy of the Day Hospital of Salt. Gerona.

WORKSHOP Nº. 5 (Spanish)
“Integrating intervention to improve treatment compliance in persons with psychotic disorders.”

Professors Elena Cristóbal, Coordinator of the Dance Movement Workshop of Tenerife and Judith Nierga, Master in Dance Movement Therapy of the Day Hospital of Salt. Gerona.

WORKSHOP Nº. 6 (English)
“Training in the Structured Clinical Interview for DSM-IV and Proposed DSM-V Dissociative Disorders (SCID-D): Assessment, Diagnosis, and Therapy.”

Professor Marlene Steinberg, Director, Psychogical Stress & Trauma Recovery Program. Naples, Florida.


INAUGURATION OF THE COURSE
“PLURAL IDENTITY AND PSYCHOSIS”

Prof. Manuel González de Chávez. Chief of Psychiatric Service I. General University Hospital Gregorio Marañón. Madrid.

“HYSTERICAL PSYCHOSIS”
Prof. Tiburcio Angosto. Chief of the Psychiatric Hospitalization Unit of the Complejo Hospitalario Universitario of Vigo.

“DISTINGUISHING BETWEEN PSYCHOTIC AND DISSOCIATIVE DISORDERS: THE SCID-D ASSESSMENT”

Prof. Marlene Steinberg. Director, Psychological Stress and Trauma Recovery Program of Naples, Florida.

“DISTINGUISHING DISSOCIATIVE MARKERS WITHIN APPARENTLY PSYCHOTIC SYMPTOM”

Prof. Marlene Steinberg. Director, Psychological Stress and Trauma Recovery Program of Naples, Florida.

“TRAUMA, DISSOCIATION AND PSYCHOSIS”

Prof. Colin A. Ross. The Colin A.Ross Institute for Psychological Trauma, Richardson, USA.

“CHILDHOOD TRAUMA AND PSYCHOSIS - THEORETICAL AND CLINICAL IMPLICATIONS”

Prof. John Read. Professor of Clinical Psychology. University of Auckland, New Zealand.

“TIME TO ABANDON THE 'SCHIZOPHRENIA CONSTRUCT? - RELIABILITY AND VALIDITY”
Prof. John Read. Professor of Clinical Psychology. University of Auckland, New Zealand.

“SCHIZOPHRENIA, TRAUMA, DISSOCIATION AND SCIENTIFIC REVOLUTIONS”
Prof. Andrew Moskowitz, Professor of Clinical Psychology,Aarhus University, Denmark.

“THE THEORY OF STRUCTURAL DISSOCIATION OF THE PERSONALITY AS A MODEL FOR UNDERSTANDING DISSOCIATIVE PSYCHOSIS”
Prof. Onno van der Hart. Honorary Professor of Psychopathology of Chronic Traumatization, Utrecht University, The Netherlands.

“FORMS OF DISSOCIATIVE PSYCHOSIS: CHARACTERISTICS AND TREATMENT”
Prof. Onno van der Hart. Honorary Professor of Psychopathology of Chronic Traumatization, Utrecht University, The Netherlands.

“AUDITORY HALLUCINATIONS: PSYCHOTIC SYMPTOM OR DISSOCIATIVE EXPERIENCE?”
Prof. Andrew Moskowitz. Professor of Clinical Psychology. Aarhus University. Denmark.

“TALKING TO THE VOICES: A PSYCHOTHERAPY APPROACH TO PSYCHOSIS”
Prof.Colin A. Ross. The Colin A.Ross Institute for Psychological Trauma, Richardson, USA.

“CLOSING COLLOQUIUM ON SCHIZOPHRENIA”
With A. Moskowitz, J. Read, C. Ross, O van der Hart and M. Steinberg


XV ANNUAL COURSE OF SCHIZOPHRENIA
“Crises, emotions and psychoses”
Madrid, November 25 to 27, 2010

1. Inauguration of the course:
Mr. José Mª Sánchez Monge. President of the FEAFES
Miss. Ana Gumiel. President of the FEMASAN
Dr.Manuel González de Chávez
Organizer of the Course

WORKSHOP Nº. 1
”Group intervention adapted to the needs of psychotic patients”

Professor Ignacio Garcia Cabeza, Psychiatrist, Associate Prof. of Psychiatry. Complutense University. Psychiatry Service I. Hospital Gregorio Marañón. Madrid. Spain.

WORKSHOP Nº. 2
“Sports and recovery in persons with psychotic disorders”

Professor Ovidio Fernández Alonso. Psychiatrist-Coordinator of the UCR SERRALTA (GESMA). Majorca and Professor Andrés López Pardo. Psychiatrist. Technician of the Andalusian Public Foundation for Social Integration of Persons with Mental Illness (FAISEM).

WORKSHOP Nº. 3 “Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy in persons with delusions and verbal hallucination”

Professor Carlos Cuevas Yust, PhD in Psychology, and Professor Salvador Perona Garcelán Associate Professor of the University of Seville. Mental Health Rehabilitation Unit “Virgen del Rocío.” University Hospitals “Virgen del Rocío” (Seville).

WORKSHOP Nº. 4 “Dancing with the families: Psychotherapy approach of the family in the Day Hospital for psychotic disorders”
Professor Diego Figuera Álvarez, Psychiatrist and Psychotherapist andProfessor Cristina Diez-Alegría Gálvez, PhD in Psychology and specialist in Clinical Psychology. Day Hospital in Ponzano, of the Psychiatry Institute of Mental Health of the Hospital Clínico San Carlos of Madrid.


INAUGURATION OF THE COURSE
“CRISES, EMOTIONS AND PSYCHOSES”

Prof. Manuel González de Chávez. Chief of Psychiatric Service I. General University Hospital Gregorio Marañón. Madrid.

“IYOU WILL KNOW THEM BY THEIR EPISODES”

Prof. Fernando Colina Pérez. Psychiatrist. Head of Psychiatry Service. Hospital Universitario Río Hortega.Valladolid.

“RECOVERY AFTER PSYCHOSIS: AN ATTACHMENT BASED UNDERSTANDING OF AFFECT REGULATION AND EMOTIONAL RECOVERY”
Prof. Andrew Gumley Chair of Psychological Therapy. University of Glasgow.

“TELLING STORIES: NARRATIVE COHERENCE AND PSYCHOLOGICAL THERAPY FOR RECOVERY AFTER PSYCHOSIS”
Prof. Andrew Gumley Chair of Psychological Therapy. University of Glasgow.

“ART PSYCHOTHERAPY AND PSYCHOSIS: CONNECTING, CREATING, COMMUNICATING”
Prof. Sheila Grandison-Barendt. Head of Arts Therapy Services, East London NHS Foundation Trust, London.

“EXPANDING THE FRAME: ENHANCING ART THERAPY RESOURCES IN RECOVERY STRATEGIES FOR PSYCHOSIS”

Prof. Sheila Grandison-Barendt. Head of Arts Therapy Services, East London NHS Foundation Trust, London.

“POST-KRAEPELINIAN APPROACH TO EXPLAINING PSYCHOSIS”
Prof. Richard Bentall. Chair in Clinical Psychology. University of Bangor in Wales.

“THE PSYCHOLOGY OF PARANOID DELUSIONS”
Prof. Richard Bentall. Chair in Clinical Psychology. University of Bangor in Wales.

“UNBEARABLE AFFECT IN THE PSYCHOTHERAPY OF PSYCHOSIS”

Prof. David Garfield. Professor of Psychiatry, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, The Chicago Medical School.

“SELF PSYCHOLOGY IN THE TREATMENT OF PSYCHOSIS”

Prof. David Garfield. Professor of Psychiatry, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, The Chicago Medical School.

“EMOTIONS AND SCHIZOPHRENIA - AN UNDERESTIMATED DIMENSION”

Prof. Luc Ciompi. Emeritus and Doctor Honoris Causa of Laussanne University, Switzerland.

“THE IMPACT OF THE EMOTIONAL ATMOSPHERE IN THE TREATMENT OF SCHIZOPHRENIA”

Prof. Luc Ciompi. Emeritus and Doctor Honoris Causa of Laussanne University, Switzerland.

“CLOSING COLLOQUIUM ON SCHIZOPHRENIA”
With L. Ciompi, R. Bentall, D. Garfield, S. Grandison and A. Gumley

XIV ANNUAL COURSE OF SCHIZOPHRENIA
“Psychosis and comunication and change”
Madrid, November 26 to 28, 2009

1. Inauguration of the course :
Dra. Mari Fé Bravo, President of the AEN
Dr.Pedro Cuadrado, President of the AMS
Dr.Manuel González de Chávez, Organizer of the Course

WORKSHOP Nº. 1
”Group psychotherapy for bipolar and affective disorders”

Professors Andrés Fernández -Cuevas, (Psychiatrist), Isabel Rodríguez Gorostiza (Psychiatrist) and Esther González Palomar (Nurse and Social Worker)
Psychiatric Service I. General University Hospital Gregorio Marañón. Madrid. Spain.

WORKSHOP Nº. 2
“Cognitive Psychotherapy in Early Psychosis”

Professor Oscar Vallina , Coordinator of the Psychosis Prevention Program of the Health Care Area of Torrelavega. Cantabrian Health Service. Spain.

WORKSHOP Nº. 3 “Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy in persons with delusions and verbal hallucinations”
Professors Carlos Cuevas Yust (Doctor in Psychology), and Salvador Perona Garcelán (Associate Professor of the University of Seville). Mental Health Rehabilitation Unit “Virgen del Rocío.”University Hospital “Virgen del Rocío” (Seville). Andalusian Health Service. Spain.

INAUGURATION OF THE COURSE
“SELF-DISCLOSURE IN THE PSYCHOTIC PATIENT”

Prof. Manuel González de Chávez. Chief of Psychiatric Service I. General University Hospital Gregorio Marañón. Madrid.

“INVISIBLE MENTAL PATIENTS?: CARE FOR HOMELESS MENTAL PATIENTS IN MADRID”

Prof . María Isabel Vázquez Souza. Coordinator of the Psychiatric Care Program for homeless mental patients in Madrid.

“SUBSTANCE USE AND PSYCHOSIS: MOTIVATIONAL ISSUES”
Prof.Christine Barrowclough. Professor of Clinical Psychology.
University of Manchester.

“INTEGRATING MOTIVATIONAL INTERVIEWING WITH COGNITIVE BEHAVIOUR THERAPY FOR PEOPLE WITH PSYCHOSIS AND SUBSTANCE MISUSE”

Prof. Christine Barrowclough. Professor of Clinical Psychology.
University of Manchester.

“DIFFICULT PATIENTS AND COUNTERTRANSFERENCE IN PSYCHIATRY”

Prof R. D. Hinshelwood, Professor in the Centre for Psychoanalytic Studies, University of Essex, UK

VIDEO CONFERENCE - COLLOQUIUM FROM PALO ALTO

With Prof. Irvin D. Yalom. Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry of Stanford University on his works and last book ”Staring at the sun: overcoming the terror of death”.

“OPEN DIALOGUES FOR ORGANIZING THE TREATMENT OF PSYCHOSIS: LESS HOSPITALIZATION AND MEDICATION - MORE RESOURCES FOR FAMILIES AND PATIENTS”
Prof. Jaakko Seikkula, Professor of Psychotherapy Department of Psychology, University of Jyväskylä, Finland.

“GENERATING DIALOGUE IN OPEN FAMILY MEETINGS: HOW TO LEARN THE SKILL OF RESPONDING IN THE PRESENT MOMENT”
Prof. Jaakko Seikkula, Professor of Psychotherapy Department of Psychology, University of Jyväskylä, Finland.

“PERSON-BASED COGNITIVE THERAPY FOR DISTRESSING PSYCHOSIS”

Prof. Paul Chadwick. King's College. London. United Kingdom

“MINDFULNESS GROUPS FOR DISSTRESING PSYCHOSIS”
Prof. Paul Chadwick. King's College. London. United Kingdom

“CLOSING COLLOQUIUM ON SCHIZOPHRENIA”
R. D. Hinshelwood, Jaakko Seikkula, and Paul Chadwick


XIII ANNUAL COURSE OF SCHIZOPHRENIA
“Psychosis: culture, psychotherapy and social integration”
Madrid, October 9 to 11, 2008

1. Inauguration of the course:
Dr. Dolores Crespo Hervás. Jefa de los Servicios de Salud Mental de la comunidad de Madrid
Dr. Antonio Barba.
 Servicio de Psiquiatría I Hospital Gregorio Marañon. Madrid..
Dr. D. Manuel González de Chávez.
 Jefe del Servicio de Psiquiatría I. Hospital General Universitario Gregorio Marañón. Madrid

WORKSHOPS

WORKSHOP NO. 1.
”Group psychotherapy for psychotic patients”

Dr. Manuel González de Chávez
. Chief of Psychiatric Service I. Hospital General Universitario Gregorio Marañón. Madrid
Dr. D. Ignacio García Cabeza. Psychiatrist of Psychiatric Service I Hospital General Universitario Gregorio Marañón. Madrid

WORKSHOP NO. 2.
”Psychodrama in the treatment of psychoses”

Prof. Rosa Rey Pousada.
 Clinical Psychologist of the Day Hospital of Psychiatry of the Centro Hospitalario Universitario Juan Canalejo-Marítimo de Oza of La Coruña.

WORKSHOP NO. 3.
”The program of individualized support for employment as a strategy of work integration"

Prof. Francisco Rodriguez Pulido.
 Staff Prof. of Psychiatry Universidad de La Laguna.
Prof. Elena Tallo Aldana. Psychologist of the Team of Individualized Support for Employment (EAIE). Insular Plan of Psychosocial Rehabilitation. Tenerife

CONFERENCES:

”ANTHROPOLOGY AND PSYCHIATRY. THE CRITICAL INTERFACE ” 
Prof. Janis H. Jenkins. Anthropology and Psychiatry Departments. University of California-San Diego, USA

“CULTURE , SUBJECTIVITY AND PSYCHOPHARMACOLOGY: ETHNOGRAPHIC STUDIES FROM NORTH AMERICA”
Prof . Janis H. Jenkins. Anthropology and Psychiatry Departments. University of California -San Diego , USA

“RULES OF ENGAGEMENT: COERCION AND CONTAINMENT AS THERAPEUTICS OF DIFFERENCE?

Prof. Sue E. Estroff, Department of Social Medicine Medical School. University of North Carolina. Chapel Hill. USA.

“SUBJECTIVITIES AS RESISTANCE: PERSON, CULTURE, PSYCHOSIS AND STIGMA”

Prof. Sue E. Estroff, Department of Social Medicine Medical School. University of North Carolina. Chapel Hill.USA

“COPING WITH SCHIZOPHRENIA. A PERSONAL ACCOUNT”
Prof. Helm Stierlin. Director of the Department of Psychoanalytic Research and Family Therapy. University of Heidelberg. Germany

“COPING WITH MANIC DEPRESSIVE PSYCHOSES. A PERSONAL ACCOUNT”

Prof. Helm Stierlin. Director of the Department of Psychoanalytic Research and Family Therapy. University of Heidelberg. Germany

“GROUP TREATMENT OF PSYCHOTIC PATIENTS AND THE THERAPIST'S ROLE”
Prof. Ivan Urlic. Professor of Psychiatry and Medical Psychology Medical School. University of Split. Croatia

“GROUP SUPERVISION OF GROUP PSYCHOTHERAPY WITH PSYCHOTIC PATIENTS. AND TRANSCULTURAL ASPECTS.”
Prof. Ivan Urlic. Professor of Psychiatry and Medical Psychology. Medical School.University of Split. Croatia.

“RECOVERY FROM SCHIZOPHRENIA: FOSTERING PROGNOSTIC OPTIMISM”
Prof. Dr .Richard Warner. Director de “Colorado Recovery”. Professor of Psychiatry of the University of Colorado

“SUCCESSFUL REHABILITATION MODELS IN PSYCHOSIS”.
Prof. Dr .Richard Warner. Director de “Colorado Recovery”. Professor of Psychiatry of the University of Colorado

“PSYCHOTHERAPY OF SCHIZOPHRENIC PSYCHOSES 2008: LOOKING BACKWARDS AND FORWARDS”.
Prof. Dr Yrjö Alanen. Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry. Univ.Turku. Finland.

DISCUSSION BASED ON THE BOOK "PSYCHOTHERAPEUTIC APPROACHES TO SCHIZOPHRENIC PSYCHOSES: PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE”, EDITED BY Y.O. ALANEN, A-L.S. SILVER AND M.GONZÁLEZ DE CHÁVEZ. “
Prof. Dr Yrjö Alanen. Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry. Univ.Turku. Finland.

XII ANNUAL COURSE OF SCHIZOPHRENIA
“Psychosis and therapeutic relationships”
Madrid, November 22 to 24, 2007

1. Inauguration of the course:
Dr. J.A. Espino Granados. Ministerio de Sanidad.
Dr. J.J. Melendo Granados.
 Consejería de Sanidad de la Comunidad de Madrid.
Dr. D. Manuel González de Chávez.
 Chief of Psychiatric Service I. Hospital General. Univ. “Gregorio Marañón”. Madrid.

WORKSHOPS


WORKSHOP NO. 1.
"Group psychotherapy for psychotic patients"

Dr. Manuel González de Chávez. Chief of Psychiatric Service I. Hospital General. Univ. “Gregorio Marañón”. Madrid.
Dr. Ignacio García Cabeza. Psychiatrist of Psychiatric Service I Hospital General. Univ. “Gregorio Marañón”. Madrid.

WORKSHOP NO. 2.
"Initiating a community with assertive treatment team"

Dr. Juan José Martínez Jambrina. Clinical Chief of the Community Assertive Treatment Team. Coordinator of the Mental Health Service of Avilés. Asturias.
Dr. Enrique Peñuelas Carnicero. Chief of Mental Health Service. Asturias.

CONFERENCES:

"THERAPEUTIC RELATIONSHIPS IN PSYCHOSES"
Dr. Manuel González de Chávez. Chief of Psychiatric Service I. Hospital General. Univ. “Gregorio Marañón”. Madrid.

"ART THERAPY OR ACCOMPANIMENT IN THE TRANSFORMATION THROUGH CREATION OF IMAGES"
Mrs. Rosa Cubillo López. Prof. of Didactics of Plastic Expression. School of Fine Arts. University of La Laguna, Tenerife.

"AVILES MODEL FOR THE ESTABLISHMENT OF COMMUNITY ASSERTIVE TREATMENT"
Dr. Juan José Martínez Jambrina. Clinical Chief of the Community Assertive Treatment Team. Coordinator of Mental Health Service of Avilés. Asturias.

"SCHIZOPHRENIA, SOCIAL SERVICES AND COMMUNITY CARE"

Dr. Abelardo Rodríguez González. Technical Coordinator of the Social Care Plan to persons with mental disease. Council of Family and Social Services of the Madrid Community.

"MUSIC THERAPY IN PSYCHIATRY: DEFINITION AND
SUMMARY OF RESEARCH EVIDENCE"

Prof. Dr. Christian Gold.

"MECHANISMS OF CHANGE: WHAT IS IT THAT WORKS IN MUSIC THERAPY?"
Prof. Dr. Christian Gold

"PSYCHOTHERAPY WITH SCHIZOPHRENIC PATIENTS AT
CHESTNUT LODGE HOSPITAL"

Prof. Dr. Christopher Keats

"PSYCHOTHERAPY WITH SCHIZOPHRENIC PATIENTS IN PRIVATE PRACTICE"
Prof. Dr. Christopher Keats

"FAMILY THERAPY AND THE NEED ADAPTED APPROACH"
Prof. Dr. Klaus Lehtinen.

"CREATION OF A SHARED UNDERSTANDING"
Prof. Dr. Klaus Lehtinen.

"SUBJECTIVE AND OBJECTIVE ASPECTS OF PSYCHOSES"
Prof. Dr. Johan Cullberg.

"INTEGRATIVE TREATMENTS OF ACUTE PSYCHOSES"
Prof. Dr. Johan Cullberg.

COLLOQUIUM ON SCHIZOPHRENIA
Professors Johan Cullberg, Klaus Lehtinen, Christopher Keats y Christian Gold.

15th International Congress for the psychotherapy
of the schizophrenia and other psychoses
Madrid, June 12-16, 2006

Principal sessions of the 15th ISPS Congress:

* 50th ISPS Anniversary
* 12 Special Lectures:

1. Towards an integrated psychiatry: Theoretical and clinical considerations on psychosis. Yrjö Alanen
2. Soteria Berne - 22 years of experience with an innovative milieu-therapeutic approach to acute schizophrenia. Luc Ciompi
3. Pathways to recovery and the "Beautiful Mind" of John Nash. Murray Jackson
4. The person in/behind the diagnosis. Lars Thogaard
5. Finding my voice. Patte Randal
6. A 40 year journey through the mental health system. David Johnson / Christine Castles
7. The many faces of resilience. Courtenay Harding
8. The Schizophrenias: A Translational-Integrative Model. Brian Koehler
9. The Stress-Vulnerability Model Revisited: Strengthening its Usefulness for Service Users and Families. Malcolm Stewart
10. The Shattered self in psychosis. Andrew Lotterman
11. From being a disorder to dealing with life: an experiential exploration of the association between trauma and psychosis. Wilma Boevink
12. International schizophrenia research and the concept of patient-centredness - an analysis over two decades. Timothy Calton


* 9 Special Workshops

1. Family functioning and family interventions in the prevention of onset of psychosis in schizophrenia and major mood disorders. William McFarlane
2. The Finnish need adaptated treatment of psychoses. Demonstration of the practices. Klaus Lehtinen
3. Manic-depressive psychosis-pshychogenesis from hospital to out-patient. Brian Martindale
4. Making sense of voices. Marius Romme
5. Experiences from the Swedish "Parachute Project" for first episode psychoses. Johan Cullberg.
6. Applying cognitive therapy to subtypes of delusional disorder. Kieron O'Connor
7. Understanding the whole context, a systemic view of psychosis. Susan Mitchell
8. HIT, an integrative treatment of vocal hallucinations.The program and its cost-effectiveness. Jack Jenner
9. Working with the families of people with schizophrenia. Julian Leff

* 3 Debates


1. The concept of schizophrenia in 2006 -for consignment to psychiatric history, or retention and modification? Brian Martindale and Courtenay Harding.
2. The families and people with mental illness associations movement role in the desing of mental health policies. Francisco Morata.
3. Compulsory community care and adherence to treatment. F. Torres-González, Luis Barrios and Nels Langsten



* 34 Symposiums
* 20 Workshops
36 Oral Sessions
* 120 posters

XI ANNUAL COURSE OF SCHIZOPHRENIA
"IDENTITY, SUBJECTIVITY AND
PSCYHOTIC EXPERIENCES"

Madrid, December 2 and 3, 2005

Participations:

Inauguration of the course:
Dr. Paloma Soria Valle.
 Consejera técnica de la Oficina de Planificación Sanitaria y Calidad.
Dr. Francisco Ferré Navarrete. Chief of the Madrid Mental Health Service.
Dr. Manuel González de Chávez. Chief of the Psychiatry Service I. General Univ. Hospital "Gregorio Marañón"

Participations:

"PSYCHOTIC EXPERIENCE: IDENTITY CRISIS AND INSIGHT CRISIS"
Dr. Manuel González de Chávez
Chief of the Psychiatry Service I. General Univ. Hospital "Gregorio Marañón"

"IDENTITY AND DELUSION"
Dr. Antonio Díez Patricio
Associate Prof. of Psychiatry of the Medicine School. University of Córdoba.
Coordinator of the Mental Health Center "Cordoba-Centro". Córdoba

"CORPORALITY AND PSYCHOTIC EXPERIENCE"
Dr. Rogelio Luque
Staff Professor of Psychiatry. University of Córdoba.
Psychiatry Unit. General University Hospital "Reina Sofia". Córdoba.

"CERTAINTY AS EXPERIENCE AND AS AXIOM"
Dr. Jose María Álvarez
Psychoanalyst. Doctor in Psychology
Clinical Psychologist of the Mental Health Services of Valladolid.

"THE SCHIZOPHRENIAS: A TRANSLATIONAL PERSPECTIVE-FROM DNA TO PERSON"
Prof. Dr. Brian Koehler.

"SCHIZOPRHENIAS: PHENOMENOLOGICAL AND PSYCHOANALYTIC
APPROACHES"

Prof. Dr. Brian Koehler

"INSIGHT IN PSYCHOSIS: PROBLEMS FACING EMPIRICAL RESEARCH"
Prof. Dr. Ivana Markova

"THE STRUCTURE OF INSIGHT: IMPLICATIONS FOR EMPIRICAL RESEARCH" 
Prof. Dr. Ivana Markova

"MAKING SENSE OF THE VOICES: RELATIONSHIPS OF PSYCHOTIC EXPERIENCE BESIDES THE ILLNESS RELATION" 
Professors Dr. Marius Romme and Dr. Sandra Escher

"TRAUMA AND PSYCHOSES, IN THE CATEGORY OF SCHIZOPHRENIA".
Professors Dr. Marius Romme and Dr. Sandra Escher

"SUBJECTIVITY AND PSYCHOSIS"
Prof. Dr. John Strauss

"A PSYCHIATRY THAT IS BOTH HUMAN AND SCIENCE"
Prof. Dr. John Strauss

"COLLOQUIUM ON SCHIZOPHRENIA"

CLOSING CEREMONY AND PRESENTATION OF DIPLOMAS

X ANNUAL COURSE OF SCHIZOPHRENIAS
“Psychotherapies and early interventions in schizophrenia”
Madrid, November 26 and 27, 2004


Inaguration:

Mr. Enrique Terol- General Assistant Manager - Agencia de Calidad del SNS
Mr. José Julián Díaz Melguizo - General Assistant Manager - Servicio Madrileño de la Salud
Dr. Manuel González de Chávez - Chief of the Psychiatry I Service. Hospital General Universitario “Gregorio Marañón”

 

Participations:

 “Importance of group psychotherapy from the prist psychotic episode”

Dr. Manuel González de Chávez – Chief of the Psychiatry Service I. Hospital General Universitario “Gregorio Marañon”

“A prospective study of group therapy in the evolution of the first psychotic episodes”

Dr. Ignacio García Cabeza – Psychiatrist. Psychiatry Service I. Hospital General Universitario “Gregorio Marañón”.

“The process in intervention programs aimed at schizophrenic patient’s relatives: What is the active ingredient?"

Prof. Dr. Manuel Gómez Beneyto – Chair of Psychiatry. University of Valencia.

“Early intervention is psychosis: experience of Torrelavega”

Dr. Oscar Vallina – Psychologist. Mental Health Care Unit of Torrelavega. Cantabria.

“Treat or not treat what we understand as premorbid in schizophrenic psychosis”

Dr. Alfonso Chinchilla Moreno – Professor and Chief of Section. Hospital “Ramón y Cajal” Madrid. University of Alcalá de Henares.

“Early intervention in first episode psicosis. Rationale structure and results from the Scandinavian TIPS-Project”

Prof. Dr. Jan Olav Johannessen

“Mental Health literacy and early detection strategies for untreated first-episode psychosis”

Prof. Dr. Jan Olav Johannessen

“The Danish national schizophrenia project: a prospective, comparative, longitudinal treatment study of first episode psychosis”

Prof. Bent Rosenbaum

“Speech, thoughts and thinking in the psychotherapy with persons with schizophrenia: some semiotic reflections”

Prof. Bent Rosenbaum

“Developing an asian model of an early psychosis intervention program (EPIP): service description and initiatives in Singapore”

Prof. Dr. Lyn Chua

“An innovate psychotherapy approach emphasizing the importance of culture for patients with first-episode psychosis”

Prof. Dr. Lyn Chua

LOREN R. MOSHER IN MEMORIAM

2003 IX ANNUAL COURSE OF SCHIZOPHRENIAS
Combined Phsychotherapies in
schizophrenia and other psychoses
Madrid, November 28 and 29, 2003

Participations :

Inauguration of the course
Dr. D. Francisco de Paula Rodríguez Perera – Manager Hospital General Universitario ?Gregorio Marañón”
Dra. Dª Rosa Ramos Pérez – Medical Assistant Manager – Hospital General Universitario “Gregorio Marañón”
Dr. D. José Jaime Melendo – Director of the Mental Health Programs – Consejería de Sanidad de la Comunidad de Madrid.
Combined therapies: Do we mix, confuse, decontructed or combine them?
Dr. Jorge Tizón – Director of the Health Care Unit of Sant Martí. Barcelona
"Combined therapies in schizophrenia”
Dr. Manuel González de Chávez – Chief of the Psychiatry I Service. Hospital General Universitario “Gregorio Marañón”
"Combined therapies in bipolar disorders”
Dr. Andrés Fernández-Cuevas – Psychiatrist. Psychiatry I Service. Hospital General Universitario “Gregorio Marañón”.
"Psycodrama and Schizophrenia”
Dr. Marisol Filgueira Bouza – Psychologist. Psychiatry Unit. Hospital Marítimo de Oza. La Coruña
Formal psychodrama: What is practical is the theory”
Dr. Rosa Rey Pousada – Psychologist. Day Hospital of La Coruña
"Group Psychotherapy in the development of community mental health care services for schizophrenic patients in Israel. Study based on 25 years of experience”
Prof. Dr. Shalom Litman
"Continuity and closeness between the hospital and community in the treatment of schizophrenia”
Prof. Dr. Shalom Litman
"Multifamily psychoanalysis in schizophrenia and other psychoses”
Prof. Dr. Jorge García Badaracco
"Theory of becoming ill and curing in psychiatry”
Prof. Dr. Jorge García Badaracco
"Dinamyc and biologic aspects of psychosis. An integrating view”

Prof. Dr. Johan Cullberg
“Five years of the “Parachute Project” in Sweden. A controlled study of treatment adapted to the needs in first psychotic episodes
Prof. Dr. Johan Cullberg
"We should abandon the obstacles for the integrating approach of schizophrenic psychosis”
Prof. Dr. Yrjö Alanen
"Developing integrated psychotherapeutic treatment for schizophrenic psychosis”
Prof. Dr. Yrjö Alanen
Colloquy on schizophrenia”
with Professors Yrjö Alanen and Johan Cullberg

2002 VIII Annual Course on Schizophrenia
"Recovery in Schizophrenia"
Madrid, November 29 and 30, 2002

Participations:
Inauguration of the Course
Dr. Francisco de Paula Rodriguez Perera - Manager H.G.U. "Gregorio Marañón"
Dr. José Antonio Serra Rexach - Assistant Director. H.G.U. "Gregorio Marañón"
Dr. Francisco Ferre Navarrete - Head of the Mental Health Department. Madrid Community
"Evolution of schizophrenia treatment"

Prof. Dr. Carmen Leal - Head Professor of Psychiatry of the University of Valencia
"Study of the degradation of psychosis through multidimensional symptoms models" 
Dr. José María Villagrán Moreno - Coordinator of the Psychiatric Hospitalization Unit. Hospital Jerez de la Frontera. Andalucia Health Service. Cadiz
"Recovery from the crisis"
Dr. Manuel González de Chávez - Head of the Psychiatry I Service Hospital General Universitario "Gregorio Marañón"
"The step by step model: Social Integration of the person with serious schizophrenia"
Prof. Dr. Francisco Torres González - Staff Professor of Psychiatry. University of Granada
"Recovery of schizophrenia in Spain"
Dr. Ignacio García Cabeza - Psychiatric Hospital of Madrid
Dr. Nieves González Suárez - Psychiatric Hospital of Madrid
Dr. Paz García Benito - Mental Health Center in Colmenar Viejo. Madrid
"Recovery in Finland and other Scandinavian Countries"
Dr. Outi Kalla - Prof. Faculty of Psychology. University of Jyvaskla. Finland
"Schizophrenia: a view from Colombia"
Dr. Juán Carlos De Rojas - Prof. of Psychiatry. Universidad Libre. Calí. Colombia
"Remission vs recovery in schizophrenia"
Prof. Dr. Courtenay Harding
"Key questions for reevaluating who seem to be stagnant in recovery"
Prof. Dr. Courtenay Harding
"The importance of the emotional factors in schizophrenia according to the concept of affectology"
Prof. Dr. Luc Ciompi
"Soteria-Berna: a therapeutic application of the concept of affectology"
Prof. Dr. Luc Ciompi
"Discussion on schizophrenia"
Professors Luc Ciompi and Courtenay Harding

2001 VII Annual Course on Schizophrenia
"Psychotherapy and psychoeducation in schizophrenia
and other psychosis"
Madrid, November 23 and 24, 2001

 Inauguration of the Course
Dr. Javier Hernández Pascual - General Director of Health of the Madrid Community
Dr. Alfredo Macho Fernández - Manager of H.G.U. "Gregorio Marañón"
Dr. Gerardo Riquelme Arias - Health Care Director. H.G.U. "Gregorio Marañón"
"Psychotherapy in schizophrenia"
Dr. Manuel González de Chávez - Head of the Psychiatry I Service. H.G.U. "Gregorio Marañón"
"Psychoeducative groups in psychotic patients"
Dr. Iñaki Eguiluz - Staff Professor of Psychiatry. University of Basque Country. Hospital de Cruces. Barakaldo
"Rehabilitation of the program of the Vallecas district. Psychoeducation and quality of life in schizophrenia"
Ana García Olmos - Psychologist of the Mental Health Center (MHS) of Vallecas
María Mellizo Cuadrado - Registered Nurse of the MHS of Vallecas
"Psychoeducative treatment in bipolar patients focused on anxiety responses and evaluating/confronting stress"
Dr. Olga Torralba Sánchez -Psychologist. Research Grant. H.G.U. "Gregorio Marañón"
Dr. Isabel Rodríguez Gorostiza - Section Head of Psychiatry. H.G.U. "Gregorio Marañón"
"Group psychotherapy in bipolar out-patients"
Dr. Andrés Fernández Cuevas -Psychiatrist. H.G.U. "Gregorio Marañón"
"Comprehension and psychoanalytic approach in psychosis"
Dr. Enrique Rivas Padilla - Head of the Mental Health Service. Hortaleza. Madrid
" Interpretation, signaling and confrontation. Analysis of the link in schizophrenia"
Dr. Nicolás Caparrós - Imago. Clínica Psicoanalitic. Madríd
"The education of the delusion"
Dr. Fernando Colina - Psychiatrist. Mental Health Service.
Valladolid
"Combining concepts and intuitions: a psycho-biologic and educational approach of schizophrenia treatment in a mental health unit of the United Kingdom"
Prof. Dr.Diana C. LeFrevre and Prof. Dr. Malcolm Pines
"New lights on "mirroring" from the psychology of development, neuropsychology and psychotherapy"
Prof. Dr. Malcolm Pines
"Familial psychoeducation and multifamilial groups: a treatment of choice in schizophrenia"
Prof. Dr. William Mc.Farlane
"Early intervention in psychotics disorders: the family as a therapeutic resource.
Prof. Dr. William Mc.Farlane
"Discussion on schizophrenia"

Professors Malcolm Pines, William Mc.Farlane and Dianna C. LeFevre

2000 VI Annual Course on Schizophrenia
"The onset of schizophrenia"
Madrid, November 24 and 25, 2000

 Inauguration of the course
Dr. Javier Hernández Pascual - General Director of Health of the Madrid Community (MC)
Dr. Alfredo Macho Fernández - Manager of H.G.U. "Gregorio Marañón"
Dr. Ricardo Riquelme Arias - Health Care Director. H.G.U. "Gregorio Marañón"
"Premorbid personality in the schizophrenic patient"
Dr. José Juán Rodriguez Solano - Head of the Mental Health Center of Colmenar Viejo. Madrid
"Symbiosis and vulnerability in schizophrenia"
Dr. Juan Carlos Fraile - Psychologist. H.G.U. "Gregorio Marañón"
Dr. Beatriz Lara - Psychiatrist. H.G.U. "Gregorio Marañón"
"Psychosocial vulnerability in psychosis disorders"
Dr. Juan Antonio Hormaechea Beldarrain - Psychiatrist. H.G.U.
"Gregorio Marañón"
"Stress factors involved in schizophrenia"
Dr. Pilar García Pelayo - Psychiatrist. H.G.U. "Gregorio Marañón"
"Pre-psychotic period and prodromic symptoms in psychosis"
Dr. Eva Rivas Cambronero - Psychiatrist H.G.U. "Gregorio Marañón"
"The untreated period of the first psychotic episodes. A comparative study in Spain and in Finland"
Dr. Outi Kalla - Research grant recipient. H.G.U. "Gregorio Marañón"
Dr. Ignacio Garcia Cabeza - Psychiatric Hospital of Canto Blanco. Madrid
"Evaluation and early intervention in psychosis. Study in the Basque Country"
Prof. Miguel Gutiérrez Fraile - Staff Prof. of Psychiatry. Head of Psychiatry Service at Hospital Cruces . Vizcaya
"The first episode of the schizophrenia: psychopathologic aspects and predictors of the clinical course"
Prof. Dr. José Luís Vázquez-Barquero - Head Prof. of Psychiatric. University of Cantabria
"Detection and management of the onset of psychosis: the pre-psychotic phase and early detection"
Prof. Dr. Patrick Mc.Gorry.
"The integrated Finland model for the early treatment of schizophrenia and similar psychoses. From the vertical to the horizontal experience "
Prof. Dr. Jukka Aaltonen
"The global approach of a municipal service for the treatment of psychoses by multiprofessional therapeutical meetings" 
Prof. Jukka Aaltonen
"Detection and management of the first psychotic episode and the critical period"
Prof. Dr. Patric Mc. Gorry
"Discussion on schizophrenia"
with Prof. Patrick Mc. Gorry and Prof. Jukka Aaltonen

1999 V Annual Course on Schizophrenia
Psychotherapeutic and psychosocial interventions in schizophrenia"
Madrid, November 26 and 27, 1999

 Inauguration of Course
Dr. Antonio Barba Ruiz de Gauna - General Director of Health in the Madrid Community
Dr. Alfredo Macho Fernández - Manager H.G.U. "Gregorio Marañón"
Dr. Blanca Reneses - Head of Mental Heart Service of the Madrid Community
"The therapeutic relationship with the schizophrenic patient"
Dr. Manuel González de Chávez - Head of the Psychiatry I Service. H.G.U. "Gregorio Marañón"
"Psychoanalytical approach to the relationship with the psychotic patient"
Dr. Jaime Melendo Granados - Head of the Mental Health Service of Tetuan. Madrid
"Family and integral treatment in schizophrenia"
Dr. Luis Cabrero Ávila - Coordinator of the Family Therapy Unit of the Hospital Clinic of Barcelona
"Psychotherapy in institutional environment with schizophrenic patients: the recovery of the psychic capacity" 
Dr. Maria Isaura Manso Neto - Psychiatry and Group Analyst
Day Hospital. University Hospital of Santa María of Lisbon.
"Basis and needs of the psychosocial interventions in schizophrenia"
Dr. José García González. - Psychiatry Health Service. Hospital General of Asturias. Oviedo
"Social integration programs with schizophrenic patients"
Dr. Ladislao Lara Palma - Manager of the Andalucian Foundation for the Social Integration of Mental Patient 
"Work integration programs in schizophrenic patients"
Dr. Marcelino Lopéz Alvárez - Director of the Mental Health Program of the Andalucian Health Service
"Early interventions in schizophrenia. Myth or reality?"
Prof. Dr. Max Birchwood
"Randomized investigation of the hospital and community care in patients with serious mental disorders"
Prof. Dr. Wayne S. Fenton
" Cognitive therapy of the psychotic symptoms"
Prof. Dr. Max Birchwood
"Evolution and perspectives of the individual psychotherapy of schizophrenia"
Prof. Dr. Wayne S. Fenton
" Discussion on schizophrenia"
with professors Max Birchwood and Wayne S. Fenton

1998 IV Annual Course on Schizophrenia.
"Schizophrenia and subjective experiences"
Madrid November 27 and 28, 1998

 Inauguration of Course
Dr. Antonio Barba Ruiz de Gauna - General Director of Public Health Care of the Madrid Community
Dr. Alfredo Macho Fernández - Manager H.G.U. "Gregorio Marañón"
Dr. Blanca Reneses - Head of the Mental Health Services of Madrid Community
"Instruments for research of insight in schizophrenia"
Dr. Marta Sanz Amador - Psychiatrist. Hospital de Cantoblanco. Madrid
"Self-concept and self-esteem of the schizophrenia patient"
Prof. Dr. Demetrio Barcia Salorio - Head Professor of Psychiatry. University of Murcia
" Self-deception and Schizophrenia"
Dr. Manuel González de Chávez - Head of Psychiatry I Service
H.G.U. "Gregorio Marañón
"Predictive factors of compliance of schizophrenia treatment"
Dr. Emilio Sánchez Díaz - Resident in Psychiatry. H.G.U. "Gregorio Marañón"
Dr. Ignacio García Cabezas Psychiatrist - Research Grant. H.G.U. "Gregorio Marañón"
"Subjective experiences and functional psychoses: clinical and nosologic aspects"
Dr. Victor Peralta - Head of the Psychiatry Service - Hospital Virgen del Camino. Pamplona
"The subjective experience of the defect"
Dr. Manuel Camacho - Head of the Service and Staff Prof. of Psychiatry. Macarena. Seville
"Depressive experiences in the schizophrenic patient"
Dr. Marta Gutierrez - Resident in Psychiatry H.G.U. "Gregorio Marañón"
"Suicide, hopelessness and schizophrenia"
Dr. Ramón Gracia - Staff Prof. of Psychiatry. Univ. La Laguna. Tenerife
"Auditory hallucinations : from phenomenology to neuroimaging"
Prof. Anthony S. David
"Confronting possibilities in the schizophrenic patient"
Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Böker
"The problem of disease awareness in schizophrenia"
Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Böker
"Insight and schizophrenia"
Prof. Anthony S. David
"Discussion on schizophrenia"
with professors Wolgang Böker and Anthony S. David

1997 III Annual Course on Schizophrenia.
"Family and Group Psychotherapy in Schizophrenia".
Madrid November 28 and 29, 1997

 Inauguration of the course
Dr. Alfredo Macho Fernández - Manager of H.G.U. "Gregorio Marañón"
Dr. Blanca Reneses - Head of the Mental Health Service of the Madrid Community
Dr. Manuel González de Chávez - Head of Service, Psychiatry I. H.G.U. "Gregorio Marañón"
"Why use group psychotherapy in schizophrenia?"
Dr. Manuel González de Chávez - Head of Service, Psychiatry I. H.G.U. ."Gregorio Marañón"
"Group therapeutic factors in schizophrenia"
Dr. Mauricio Ducajú - Psychiatrist. H.G. U. "Gregorio Marañón"
Dr. Dolores Rico Bodi - Psychiatrist. Hospital Sant Joan de Déu.
Barcelona
"Analysis of two groups for hospitalized patients: schizophrenia and affective disorders"
Dr. Juan Carlos Fraile - Psychologist. Section Head. H.G.U. "Gregorio Marañón"
Dr. Isabel Rodríguez Gorostiza - Psychiatrist. Section Head. H.G.U. "Gregorio Marañón"
"Analysis of two groups for schizophrenic patients: hospitalized and out-patients"
Dr. Ignacio García Cabeza - Resident in Psychiatry. H.G.U. "Gregorio Marañón"
"Analysis of two groups for out-patients: Schizophrenia and neurotic disorders"
Dr. Enrique González Duro - Psychiatrist. H.G.U. "Gregorio Marañón"
Dr. Alfonso García Ordás - Director of the Psychiatric Hospital of Merida
"Role of family approaches of psychoeducative character in the treatment of schizophrenia"
Dr. Maribel Montero - Staff Prof. of Psychiatry. University of Valencia
"Family Psychoeducative in schizophrenia: a limited intervention"
Dr. Fco. Javier Sanz Fuentenebro - Psychiatrist. Hospital "Doce de Octubre" Madrid
"Evolution of Schizophrenia: psychoeducation and associated factors"
Dr. Víctor Aparicio - Psychiatrist. Mental Health Services of Asturias
Dr. Ana Esther Sánchez - Head of Service. Health Care Area of Mieres. Asturias
"The integrated model adapted to needs and therapeutic process" 
Prof. Dr. Klaus Lehtinen
" Experience of a psychosis team"
Prof. Dr. Viljo Räkköläinen
"Family therapy as part of the integrated treatment of the first episodes of schizophrenic psychosis"
Prof. Dr. Viljo Räkköläinen
"Combined psychoeducation and systemic familial therapy adapted to need"
Prof. Dr. Klaus Lehtinen.
"Discussion on schizophrenia"
with the professors V. Räkköläinen and K. Lhtinen

1996 II Annual Course on Schizophrenia
Clinical Investigation in Schizophrenia
Madrid, November 3 and 4, 1996

 Inauguration of course
Dr. Alfredo Macho Fernández - Manager of the H.G.U. "Gregorio Marañón"
Dr. Blanca Reneses - Head of the Mental Health Service of the Madrid Community
Dr. Manuel González de Chávez - Head of the Psychiatry I Service. H.G.U. "Gregorio Marañón"
"Reflections based on Symptoms" 
Prof. Dr. Antonio Colodrón Alvárez - Psychiatrist. Madrid.
"Investigations on premorbid personality and premorbid adjustment in schizophrenic patients"
Dr. José Juán Rodríguez Solano - Psychiatrist. Mental Health Center of Colmenar Viejo. Madrid
"Investigations on insight in schizophrenic patients"

Dr. Manuel González de Chávez - Head of the Psychiatry I Service. H.G.U. "Gregorio Marañón". Associate professor of Psychiatry of the University Complutense of Madrid
"Investigations on the subjective response to neuroleptics"
Dr. Ignacio García Cabeza and Marta Sanz Amador - Resident in Psychiatry. H.G.U. "Gregorio Marañón". Madrid
"Dimensional clinical models in schizophrenia"
Dr. Victor Peralta - Associate Professor of Psychiatry. Hospital Virgen del Camino. Pamplona
"Cognitive dysfunction in schizophrenic dimensions"
Dr. Manuel Cuesta - Associate Professor of Psychiatry. Hospital Virgen del Camino. Pamplona
"Assessment of the needs of the schizophrenics"
Prof. Dr. Francisco Torres - Staff Prof. of Psychiatry. University of Granada
"Violence in the schizophrenic patient"
Dr. Celso Arango - Resident in Psychiatry. H.G.U. "Gregorio Marañón"
Dr. Alfredo Caulked Barba - Associate Prof. of Psychiatry University Complutense of Madrid
"The new psychopathology of schizophrenia"
Prof. Dr. William T. Carpenter Jr.
"Innovations in the treatment of schizophrenia"
Prof. Dr. William T. Carpenter Jr.
"Discussion on schizophrenia"
Prof. Dr. William T. Carpenter Jr.

1995 I Annual Course on Schizophrenia
"Therapeutics Programs in Schizophrenia"
Madrid, November 3 and 4, 1995

"Combined therapies and therapeutic process"
Dr. Alfonso Garcia-Ordás - Director of Psychiatric Hospital of Merida
"Assessment and evolution of the patients in psychotherapeutic programs"
Dr. Manuel González de Chávez - Head of the Psychiatry I Service H.G.U. "Gregorio Marañón"
"Continuity of care in the schizophrenic patient"

Dr. Tiburcio Angosto Saura - Head of the Psychiatry Service of the Psychiatric Hospital of "Rebullon" of Vigo
"Rehabilitation in schizophrenia treatment"
Dr. Margarita Laviana Cuetos - Health Care Director of Hospital "Miraflores" of Seville
"Rehabilitation of the chronic mental patient: day center and mini-residencies"
Dr. José- María Fernández Chavero - Director of the Madrid Area 1 Psychosocial Rehabilitation Center
"Therapeutic programs adapted to the needs of the schizophrenic patients"
Prof. Y. Alanen - Emeritus Professor of the University of Turku. (Finland)
"National program for the development of investigation, treatment and rehabilitation of schizophrenia in Finland"
Prof. Y. Alanen - Emeritus professor of the University of Turku (Finland)
"Discussion on schizophrenia"

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