Speakers
Prof. Walter Geke
MD Walter Gekle studied medicine at the University of Tübingen in (West-)Germany and, under the impression of the publications of Prof Luc Ciompi moved 1991 to Berne, Switzerland, where he completed the specialization as a psychiatrist in 1998, always with a special interest for people suffering from psychosis. In 1999 he spent 6 months in Melbourne / Australia working at the “Early Psychosis Prevention and Intervention Center EPPIC” , then led by Prof. Pat McGorry. Back in Switzerland he then held leading positions in different realms of psychiatry, eg crisis intervention (until 2006), hospital care and integrated socialpsychatric care for a sector of about 100 000 inhabitants (until 2010), deputy director of a psychiatric serviced integrated in a somatic hospital (until 2019) and since then works in the above mentioned positions.
Prof. Dainiu Puras
Dainius Pūras is professor of child and adolescent psychiatry and public mental health at Faculty of medicine, Vilnius university, Lithuania. He is also a consultant child and adolescent psychiatrist at the Child development center, Vilnius university hospital. Among positions he was holding, Dainius Pūras was President of Lithuanian Psychiatric Association, Dean of the Faculty of medicine, Vilnius university, Director of the Human rights monitoring institute. During the years 2007-2011 Dainius Pūras was a member of the UN Committee on the rights of the child. During the years 2014 – 2020 he was serving as a UN Special Rapporteur on the right to physical and mental health.
More information about his reports to the UN and other activities in the role of the UN Special rapporteur:
www.handover-dialogues.org/legacy
Prof. Françoise Davoine
· Agrégation de Lettres Classiques, Phd in Sociology
· Maître de Conférences (retired) at the EHESS, École des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, in Paris
· Member of the Ecole Freudienne untiil Lacan's death
· Member of the ISPS and ISPS-US
· Psychoanalyst, in Psychiatric publc hospitals and dispensaries during 30 years .Still in Private practice
· Weekly Seminar during 40 years at the EHESS, with Jean Max Gaudillière, on "Madness and the Social Link", until his death in 2015
· Erikson Scholar at the Austen Riggs Center, Massachusetts
· Gaetano Benedetti Award, ISPS-US 2023
· Honorary Lifetime Member of ISPS, Helsinki 2024.
· Conferences in Europe and America. Annual seminars in Mexico.
Prof. Jorge Tizón
Doctor of Medicine, Psychiatrist, Psychoanalyst.
