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Previous Courses

XXVIII ANNUAL SCHIZOPHRENIA COURSE
Psychosis: Reality and Virtualities

November 14 and 15, 2024

Workshop 1: “Psychotic experiences, psychoactive substance use, trauma and psychotherapy”

Prof. Pedro Cuadrado Callejo
Psychiatrist at the Care Center for Victims of Abuse and Torture-SIRA. Madrid.

Workshop 2: “Creation and development of a therapeutic group for people with psychotic disorders in the community context”

Prof. Manuel González Molinier
Psychiatrist and coordinator of the Community Mental Health Unit of Fuengirola-Mijas (Málaga).

“Old and new chronicity: Aurora Rodríguez, Aby Warburg, Julio Puente”

Prof. Guillermo Rendueles
Private psychiatrist.

“Advances and developments in AVATAR therapy for auditory hallucinations”

Prof. Thomas Craig
Emeritus Professor of Social Psychiatry, King’s College London, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience. London.

“Working with people who hear voices using compassionate approaches”

Prof. Jacqui Dillon
President, ISPS, UK.

“Delusions, ideologies and madness of crowds”

Prof. Richard Bentall
Professor of Clinical Psychology at the University of Sheffield. United Kingdom.

“A possible place for those who have no place. Opportunities and dilemmas in the treatment of psychosis in the community mental health center”

Prof. Antonio Ceverino
Psychiatrist at the Hortaleza Mental Health Center, Ramón y Cajal Hospital, Madrid.

“Treatment without medication for people with psychosis: patient experiences and healthcare staff perspectives in a setting with new treatment policies in Norway”

Dra. Christine Ødegaard
Department of Global Health and Community Medicine, University of Bergen, Haukeland University Hospital, Division of Psychiatry, Bergen, Norway.

Closing Colloquium

Moderator Mariano Hernández Monsalve.
With Richard Bentall, Thomas Craig, Christine Ødegaard, Guillermo Rendueles and Antonio Ceverino.


XXVII ANNUAL SCHIZOPHRENIA COURSE
“Empathy, attachment and therapeutic alliance in psychosis”

November 10 and 11, 2023

Workshop 1: “Working with trauma and attachment in psychosis from the EMDR perspective”

Prof. Anabel González Vázquez
Psychiatrist, Coordinator of the Trauma and Dissociation Program. University Hospital of La Coruña.

Workshop 2: “Personal assistance in mental health, a figure under construction”

Prof. Teresa Orihuela Villameriel
Specialist Clinical Psychologist. Psychiatric Day Hospital. Psychiatry Service, University Healthcare Complex of Palencia. SACYL.

Prof. Loreto Cantero López
Services and Quality Manager. Director of the MainJobs Group Project. Valladolid.

“Empathy and Psychosis”

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

“The Ponzano Project: a day hospital experience for psychotic disorders based on attachment and focused on bonds”

Prof.  Diego Figuera Álvarez
Psychiatrist and psychotherapist. Director of the Ponzano Day Hospital of the Institute of Psychiatry and Mental Health at Hospital Clínico San Carlos in Madrid.

“Psychotic anxiety and therapeutic alliance”

Prof. Dag Söderström
Psychiatrist, psychoanalyst accredited by the IPA and Vice-President of the ISPS. Lausanne. Switzerland.

“Disguised memories of trauma represented in psychotic symptoms: implications for psychotherapy”

Prof. Michael Garrett
Emeritus Professor of Clinical Psychiatry. Department of Psychiatry, SUNY Downstate Medical Center. New York.

“How can research on attachment theory and psychosis shape psychological therapies?”

Prof. Katherine Berry
Professor of Clinical Psychology, University of Manchester. United Kingdom.

“Positive psychotherapy for psychosis: beneficial useful complement or toxic positivity?”

Prof. Mike Slade
Department of Global Health and Community Medicine, University of Bergen, Haukeland University Hospital, Division of Psychiatry, Bergen, Norway.

“The art of accompaniment”

Prof. Fernando Colina
Former Head of the Psychiatry Service and Emeritus Psychiatrist at the Río Hortega University Hospital.

Closing Colloquium

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


XXVI SCHIZOPHRENIA COURSE
“Dissociation and integration in psychosis”

November 10 and 12, 2022

Workshop 1: “Principles of a psychotherapy of psychoses: the word and transference”

Prof. Dr. José María Álvarez
Coordinator of the Specialized Psychotherapy Unit. Río Hortega University Hospital. Valladolid.

Workshop 2: “Introduction to Open Dialogue. Key elements”

Prof. Teresa Abad Sierra
Psychologist. Day Center and Socio-Community Support Team (EASC) San Blas, Madrid. Fundación Manantial.

Prof. Sara Toledano Márquez
Psychologist, Technical Director. Fundación Manantial.

“Empathy and Psychosis”

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

Opening

“THE FRAGMENTATION OF IDENTITY IN DISSOCIATION AND PSYCHOSIS”

Prof.  Manuel González de Chávez
Former 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. University Hospital of La Coruña.

“DIFFERENTIATION BETWEEN DISSOCIATIVE IDENTITY DISORDER AND SCHIZOPHRENIA”

“INTEGRATION IN THE MODEL OF DISSOCIATED STATES OF THE SELF. HEALING FRAGMENTATION IN THE THERAPEUTIC CONNECTION”

Prof. Dr. Elizabeth Howell
Professor and Supervisor of the Trauma Program at the 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
Director of the Department of Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine, Koc University (KUSOM). Istanbul.

Prof. Dr. Tony Morrison
Professor of Clinical Psychology at the University of Manchester.

“PSYCHOSIS, DISSOCIATION AND TRAUMA. CONCEPTUAL ASPECTS”

“THE PSYCHOTHERAPY OF PSYCHOSES – A CASE PERSPECTIVE”

Prof. Dr. Markus Heinimaa
Clinical Professor of the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Turku.

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

“WHEN INTEGRATION CANNOT OCCUR: WORKING WITH SPLIT VOICES”

Prof. Dra. Valerie Sinason
Founding Director of the London Clinic for the Study of Dissociative Disorders.

Closing Colloquium

With Valerie Sinason, Elizabeth Howell, Vedat ?ar, Markus Heinimaa and Anabel González Vázquez


XXV SCHIZOPHRENIA COURSE
“Helping people with psychotic experiences”

Special Virtual Course 2021

November 25 and 26, 2021

Opening

“Pioneers of 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. Clinical Director of the UCM University Clinic.

“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 teamwork and institutional work with severely ill patients”

Prof.  Antonio Tari García
Psychiatrist, Coordinator of the Romareda Day Center of Sector III of SALUD (Zaragoza).

“Voices and dissociative parts, a trauma-based approach”

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.

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. Former President AEN-Mental Health Professionals.


II VIRTUAL WORKSHOPS DAY

May 20, 2021

Group psychotherapy for family members of patients with severe mental disorders: Acceptance and commitment therapy, communication training and mindfulness

Prof. Gloria Mª Roldán Maldonado
Specialist in clinical psychology and coordinator of the Mental Health Day Hospital at the Virgen de las Nieves University Hospital (SAS).


I VIRTUAL WORKSHOPS DAY

November 5, 12, 19 and 26, 2020

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

Workshop 1: A new group framework for treating psychosis from the model of states of consciousness

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

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

Workshop 2: Home hospitalization

Prof. Carmen Cañada
Psychiatrist and coordinator of the Home Hospitalization program at the Príncipe de Asturias Hospital 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 at the University Hospital of La Candelaria in Tenerife.

Prof. Cecilio Sotomayor
Psychiatrist and coordinator of the Assertive Community Team (ECA) at 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 Centre de Terapia Interfamiliar of Elche, Alicante.


XXV ANNUAL SCHIZOPHRENIA COURSE
“Psychosis, recovery and mutual aid”

Madrid, November 28 – 30, 2019

Course opening

Ivan Urlić
Professor of Psychiatry and Medical Psychology and Group Analyst. Faculty of Medicine, University of Split, Croatia.
Manuel González Molinier
 ISPS, España.
Manuel González de Chávez
Former President of the International Society for the Psychological and Social Approaches to Psychosis.

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

Prof. Francisco Rodríguez Pulido
Associate Professor of Psychiatry, University of La Laguna, Tenerife.

Prof. Ricardo Guinea
Former President of the World Association for Psychosocial Rehabilitation.

WORKSHOP 2: “Early intervention in psychosis: a critical perspective”

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

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

Prof.  Javier Sempere
Director of the Centre de Terapia Interfamiliar of Elche, Alicante.

WORKSHOP 4: “Dramatherapy in people with severe mental disorder”

Prof. Pedro Miguel Martín Cuadrado
Head of the Dramatherapy area of the Canarian Association of Creative Therapies ASCATEC.

“A CENTURY OF GROUP PSYCHOTHERAPY IN PSYCHOSES”

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

“HOW AND WHY GROUP THERAPY IS USEFUL IN PSYCHOSIS”

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

“GROUP COGNITIVE BEHAVIORAL THERAPY FOR PATIENTS WITH PSYCHOSIS: EXPLANATION OF ITS EFFICACY ON SYMPTOMS AND WORK OUTCOMES”

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

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

Prof. Tania Lecomte
Professor of the Department of Psychology, University of Montreal

“DEAR PSYCHOSIS, YOU HAVE BROUGHT MY FAMILY CLOSER TOGETHER, THANK YOU. MULTIFAMILY GROUP EXPERIENCES IN AN EARLY INTERVENTION PSYCHOSIS SERVICE”

“THERE IS NOTHING MORE TERRIBLE THAN THE LACK OF RESPONSE. THE CHALLENGE FOR PROFESSIONALS AND SERVICES APPLYING OPEN DIALOGUE”

Prof. Val Jackson
Systemic psychotherapist and trainer in “Open Dialogue”.

“PEER SUPPORT INTERVENTIONS: WHERE WE HAVE STARTED AND WHERE WE ARE NOW”

“COLLABORATING WITH PATIENTS WITH MENTAL ILLNESS TO IMPROVE RESEARCH AND PROGRAMS”

Prof. Chyrell D. Bellamy
Associate of the Department of Psychiatry, Yale University School of Medicine, Director of Peer Support 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 Director of psychotherapy at “The Retreat” in York.

“PSYCHOTIC EXPERIENCES REFLECTED IN PSYCHOTHERAPEUTIC CONTEXTS: THE MIND AND BRAIN OUT OF COORDINATION”

“THE PLACE OF SUPERVISION IN THE TREATMENT OF PATIENTS SUFFERING FROM PSYCHOSIS: A PSYCHOTHERAPEUTIC APPROACH”

Prof. Dr. Ivan Urlić
Professor of Psychiatry and Medical Psychology and Group Analyst. Faculty of Medicine, University of Split, Croatia.

Closing Colloquium

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


XXIII ANNUAL SCHIZOPHRENIA COURSE
“EMOTIONS AND RISKS IN PSYCHOSIS”

Madrid, November 29 – December 1, 2018

Course opening

Dra. Carmen Cañada Gallego
President of the AMSM, Madrid Mental Health Association, to be enrolled in the Course.
Mikel Munarriz 
President of the AEN
Dr. Manuel González de Chávez
Course Organizer.

WORKSHOP 1: “A new group framework for treating psychosis from the model of states of consciousness”

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

WORKSHOP 2: “Mental Health Street Team”

Profesores Elena Medina Téllez de Meneses y Rafael Fernández García-Andrade
Psychiatrists. Coordinators of the Mental Health Street Team (ECASAM) of the “Psychiatric Care Program for Homeless Mentally Ill” of the Community of Madrid.

WORKSHOP 4: WORKSHOP IN ENGLISH
“Narrating the untold stories: A relational method for working with anger and rage”

Prof.  Sue Parker Hall
Certified relational transactional analyst (psychotherapy). Cornwall, England.

“SHAME AND GUILT IN PSYCHOSIS”

Prof.  Manuel González de Chávez 
Former 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 

“DIFFERENTIATION BETWEEN ANGER AND RAGE: THEORY AND PSYCHOTHERAPEUTIC PROCESS”

“HOW TO FIND ORDER IN CHAOS AND CHAOS IN ORDER: WORKING WITH ANGER IN BORDERLINE AND NARCISSISTIC PERSONALITY TRAITS”

Prof. Sue Parker Hall
Certified relational transactional analyst (psychotherapy). Cornwall, England.

“SYSTEMATIC ASSESSMENT OF ADVERSITY DURING CHILDHOOD (ROUTINE ENQUIRY ABOUT ADVERSITY IN CHILDHOOD; REACH): HOW ASKING THE RIGHT QUESTIONS CAN CHANGE THE WORLD”

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

Prof. Dr. Warren Larkin
Clinical Director of the adverse childhood experiences health program, and Director of Warren Larkin Associates Ltd.

“ATTACHMENT AND PSYCHOSIS: AT-RISK MENTAL STATES, MANIFESTATION OF A FIRST EPISODE AND DEVELOPMENTAL PATHWAY TO RISK AND RESILIENCE”

“EARLY INTERVENTION IN HIGH-RISK PATIENTS AND A FIRST EPISODE OF PSYCHOSIS: RANDOMIZED CASE SERIES OF PSYCHOLOGICAL INTERVENTIONS AND MOMENTARY ASSESSMENT ENHANCEMENT”

Prof. Matthias Schwannauer 
Director of Clinical Psychology and Health Psychology, University of Edinburgh.

“SUICIDE RISK IN SCHIZOPHRENIA”

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

Prof. Maurizio Pompili
Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Suicidology. Faculty of Medicine and Psychology. Sapienza University of Rome.

“THE FUNDAMENTAL ROLE OF EMOTIONS IN SCHIZOPHRENIA: THE FACTS AND THEIR GENERAL THERAPEUTIC CONSEQUENCES”

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

Prof. Dr. Luc Ciompi
Social Psychiatry of Berne and Co-director of the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Berne.

Closing Colloquium

With Luc Ciompi, Sue Parker Hall, Warren Larkin, Matthias Schwannauer and Maurizio Pompili


XXII ANNUAL SCHIZOPHRENIA COURSE
“HALLUCINATORY EXPERIENCES AND THERAPEUTIC POSSIBILITIES”

Madrid, November 23-25, 2017

Course opening

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

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

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

WORKSHOP 2: “Looking at oneself on screen. Cinema as a tool for therapeutic intervention in severe mental illness”

Prof. María Martín Martín-Blas
Psychiatrist, Hospital Infanta Sofía, Madrid and Inés García del Castillo, Psychiatrist, HM Hospitales de Madrid.

WORKSHOP 3: “Therapy oriented towards increasing the capacity to mentalize for borderline patients”

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

WORKSHOP 4: “Key aspects for the assessment and intervention in psychosis from a developmental perspective”

Prof. Margarita Alcamí Pertejo
Psychiatrist, Child and Adolescent Unit, Psychiatry Service of La Paz Hospital, Madrid and Paloma Ortiz Soto, Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist and Psychotherapist, ADI Center, Madrid.

WORKSHOP 5: WORKSHOP IN ENGLISH
“How to apply integrative therapy focused on hallucinations. The best that can be obtained”

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

Note: All workshops, except Workshop 5, will be in Spanish without simultaneous translation

Course opening

“DIFFERENT HALLUCINATORY EXPERIENCES AND DIFFERENT THERAPEUTIC OBJECTIVES AND POSSIBILITIES”

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

“TREATING HALLUCINATIONS WITHOUT GIVING THEM TOO MUCH IMPORTANCE: FROM SYMPTOM TO LIFE”

Prof. José Manuel García Montes
Professor in the area of Personality, Assessment and Psychological Treatments at the University of Almería.

“THE PERSONAL HISTORY OF PEOPLE WHO HEAR VOICES, THE VOICES AND THE RELATIONSHIP WITH THE VOICES. SYSTEMATIC EXPLORATION AND COMMUNICATION WITH THE VOICES”

“HOW TO LEARN TO COMMUNICATE ABOUT VOICES AND WITH VOICES, INSTEAD OF PSYCHOEDUCATION. 10 YEARS OF 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 DISTRESSING VOICES. INTRODUCTION TO RELATIONAL THERAPY”

“SUSSEX VOICES CLINIC: HOW TO IMPROVE ACCESS TO EVIDENCE-BASED PSYCHOLOGICAL THERAPIES FOR NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE PATIENTS WHO SUFFER FROM HEARING VOICES”

Prof. Mark Hayward
Research Director at the Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust, Emeritus Professor at the University of Sussex.

“COGNITIVE THERAPY TO REDUCE HARMFUL COMPLIANCE WITH DISTRESSING VOICES” and “TEAM-BASED COGNITIVE THERAPY (TBCT) FOR TREATMENT-RESISTANT PATIENTS WITH BEHAVIORAL NEEDS AND DISTRESSING VOICES”

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

“MODEL OF PSYCHOTIC HALLUCINATIONS AND THEIR TREATMENT” and “A CASE OF PSYCHOANALYTIC THERAPY OF A PSYCHOTIC PATIENT WITH HALLUCINATIONS”

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

“INTEGRATIVE TREATMENT FOCUSED ON HALLUCINATIONS IN PEOPLE WITH SUICIDAL TENDENCIES” and “INTEGRATIVE TREATMENT FOCUSED ON HALLUCINATIONS IN TRAUMATIZED PATIENTS”

Closing Colloquium

With Profesores Jack Jenner, Alan Meaden, Mark Hayward, Dirk Corstens and Guy Giménez


XXI ANNUAL SCHIZOPHRENIA COURSE
“Fragility, adversity and new therapies in psychosis”

Madrid, December 1 – 3, 2016

Course opening

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

WORKSHOP 1: “A Mental Health Therapeutic Community as a space for recovery. The role of a medium and long-stay Unit in a public community network”

Prof. Margarita Laviana Cuetos
Coordinator of the Mental Health Therapeutic Communities I and II, and of the Intensive Community Treatment Team at the Virgen del Rocío Hospital, Seville.

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

Prof. José María Villagrán Moreno
Coordinator of the Psychiatric Hospitalization Unit of the Clinical Management Unit for Mental Health at the Hospital de Jerez de la Frontera, Cádiz.

Prof. José I. Pérez Revuelta
Psychiatrist and researcher at the Foundation for the Management of Biomedical Research of Cádiz.

WORKSHOP 3: “The photographic image as a psychotherapeutic intervention technique”

Prof. Asís González Ayerbe
Photographer and graphic designer. Director of the “Los Duelistas” Publishing House.

Prof. Javier Gutiérrez Igarza
Psychologist, Group Analyst at the Hogar Izarra Therapeutic Community in Bilbao.

WORKSHOP 4: “Working with families to improve the course of schizophrenia (Julian Leff method)”

Prof. Manuel Girón
Psychiatrist, member of the multidisciplinary team at the Ciutat Jardí Mental Health Center (Alicante).

“SYMBIOSIS, FRAGILITY, AND PSYCHOSIS?”

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

“ATTACHMENT AND PSYCHOSIS. VULNERABILITY AND BOND-FOCUSED PSYCHOTHERAPY”

Prof. Diego Figuera Álvarez
Director of the Psychotherapy Teaching Unit and the Ponzano Day Hospital. Hospital Clínico San Carlos. Madrid.

“DISORDERED SELVES OR PEOPLE 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 the “G. d’Annunzio” University, Chieti, Italy.

“THE SOCIAL CAUSES OF MADNESS: RESEARCH UPDATE”

“THE ROLE OF BIOGENETIC CAUSAL BELIEFS IN MAINTAINING PREJUDICE AGAINST PEOPLE DIAGNOSED WITH ‘SCHIZOPHRENIA'”

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

“TRAUMATIC VULNERABILITY AS AN INDICATOR OF A GOOD RESPONSE TO COGNITIVE BEHAVIORAL THERAPY IN PATIENTS WITH SCHIZOPHRENIA SPECTRUM DISORDERS WHO REFUSE ANTIPSYCHOTIC MEDICATION”

“TREATMENT OF PATIENTS WITH TRAUMATIC PSYCHOSIS WITH THE LEVELS OF THERAPY METHOD BASED ON PERCEPTUAL CONTROL THEORY”

Prof. Douglas Turkington
Professor of Psychosocial Psychiatry at the University of Newcastle, United Kingdom.

“EXPLORING THE PSYCHOLOGICAL MANIFESTATION AND FUNCTION OF EMOTIONAL DIFFICULTIES FOLLOWING PSYCHOSIS”

“INNOVATIONS IN PSYCHOLOGICAL THERAPIES FOR EMOTIONAL DIFFICULTIES FOLLOWING PSYCHOSIS”

Prof. Ross White
Professor of Clinical Psychology at the University of Glasgow.

“MINDFULNESS, ACCEPTANCE AND VALUES: PROCESSES OF CHANGE IN ACCEPTANCE AND COMMITMENT THERAPY IN PSYCHOSIS”

“ACCEPTANCE AND COMMITMENT THERAPY GROUPS FOR PEOPLE RECOVERING FROM PSYCHOSIS”

Prof. Dr. Eric Morris
Director of the Psychology Clinic at La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia.

Coloquio de clausura

With John Read, Douglas Turkington, Ross White y Eric Morris


XX ANNUAL SCHIZOPHRENIA COURSE
“Imagination, regression and recovery in psychosis”

Madrid, December 26-28, 2015

Course opening

Dr. Mikel Munarriz
President of the AEN.
Dra. Mariano Hernández Monsalve
Psychiatrist and psychotherapist. Former President of the AEN.
Dr. Manuel González de Chávez.
Course Organizer.

WORKSHOP 1: “Psychotherapeutic interventions that promote metacognition and social cognition in psychoses”

Prof. Guillermo Lahera Forteza
Psychiatrist, Contracted Professor of Psychiatry and Medical Psychology, Faculty of Medicine. University of Alcalá.

WORKSHOP 2: “Application of the multifamily group to an early psychosis program”

Prof. Mónica Montoro Lus
Psychiatrist, psychotherapist, Coordinator of the Early Psychosis Program at the Sants Mental Health Center at the Sant Pere Claver Hospital Foundation in Barcelona.

Prof. Juan Manuel Blanqué López
Psychiatrist, psychotherapist, former Coordinator of the Early Psychosis Program at the Montjuic Mental Health Center at the Sant Pere Claver Hospital Foundation in Barcelona.

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

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

WORKSHOP 4: “Research methodology in group psychotherapy in psychosis”

Prof. Lina Tost Pardell
Psychiatrist at the University Hospital of La Candelaria in Tenerife and Coordinator of the Ofra Mental Health Unit.

Prof. Cecilio Hdez. A. de Sotomayor
Psychiatrist and Coordinator of the Assertive Community Team (ECA) of Tenerife (SCS).

“IMAGINATION AND REGRESSION IN PSYCHOSES”

Prof. Manuel González de Chávez
Former 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. Former President of the AEN.

“THE PERSON WITH SCHIZOPHRENIA”
“HOW TO HELP THE PERSON WITH SCHIZOPHRENIA”

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

“HOW TO BRING PSYCHOSIS OUT OF ITS ISOLATION. CONSIDERATION OF ANOMALOUS EXPERIENCES IN A BROADER HUMAN CONTEXT”

“WHAT IS REAL AND WHAT IS NOT. A THERAPEUTIC APPROACH TO PSYCHOSIS THAT TAKES EXPERIENCE SERIOUSLY AND UNDERMINES STIGMA”

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

“THE SOCIAL NATURE OF RECOVERY BETWEEN SUBJECTIVITY AND INSTITUTIONS”

“A CRITICAL APPROACH TO INTEGRATED COMMUNITY CARE FOR PATIENTS WITH PSYCHOSIS: THE TRIESTE EXPERIENCE”

Prof. Roberto Mezzina
Psychiatrist, Director of the Department of Mental Health of 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 at the Indiana University School of Medicine. USA.

“WHAT WE HAVE LEARNED ABOUT RECOVERY FROM PSYCHOSIS”

“WHAT WE HAVE LEARNED FROM 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 the Institution for Social and Policy Studies at Yale University. USA.

Closing Colloquium

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


XIX ANNUAL SCHIZOPHRENIA COURSE
“Intuitions, delusions and therapies”

Madrid, November 20 – 22, 2014

Course opening 2014

Dr. Victor Aparicio Basauri
Dra. Ignacio García Cabeza
Dr. Manuel González de Chávez.
Course Organizer.

WORKSHOP 1: “Family intervention in people diagnosed with schizophrenia in a mental health network”

Prof. Ernesto Baena Ruiz
Clinical Psychologist. Coordinator of the Psychosocial Rehabilitation Center of Gran Canaria.

Prof. Rafael Touriño González
Psychiatrist. Director of the Island Psychosocial Rehabilitation Plan of Gran Canaria.

WORKSHOP 2: “Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) applied to psychotic symptoms”

Prof. Dr. Marino Pérez Álvarez
Full Professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of Oviedo.

Prof. Dr. José M. García Montes
Associate Professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of Almería.

WORKSHOP 3: “The internet as a tool for sharing and building perspectives around psychosis: Saltando Muros and Psiquifotos”

Prof. Esther Sanz
Clinical Psychologist of the External Mental Health Area of Tenerife.

Prof. Óscar Martínez Azumendi
Head of the Interior District Service, Mental Health Network of Bizkaia-Osakidetza.

WORKSHOP 4: “Emotional reality of people with psychotic processes”

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

“INTUITIONS AND DELUSIONS”

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

“NORMALIZED MADNESS”

Prof. José Maria Alvarez
Clinical Psychology Tutor-Coordinator at the Río Hortega University Hospital in Valladolid.

“COGNITIVE AND EMOTIONAL PROCESSES IN DELUSIONS: EVIDENCE FROM RECENT RESEARCH”

“PSYCHOLOGICAL TREATMENTS FOR PARANOIA AND DELUSIONS. NEW DEVELOPMENTS”

Prof. Philippa Garety 
Professor of Clinical Psychology. Institute of Psychiatry, King’s College. London.

“PSYCHOTIC-TYPE EXPERIENCES IN CHILDREN AND YOUNG ADULTS: NEW INTERVENTIONS”

“HOW TO CARE FOR THE CARERS OF PEOPLE WITH PSYCHOSIS”

Prof. Elizabeth Kuipers 
Professor of Clinical Psychology. Institute of Psychiatry, King’s College. London.

“SOCIAL COGNITION AND SCHIZOPHRENIA”

“SOCIAL COGNITION AND INTERACTIVE TRAINING IN PSYCHOSIS”

Prof. Dennis R. Combs 
Director of the Psychotic Disorders Research Laboratory. Department of Psychology. University of Texas at Tyler. USA.

“SCHREBER’S LESSONS ON THE PSYCHOSOCIAL APPROACH TO THE TREATMENT OF PSYCHOSES”

“THE EMOTIONAL BODY OF DRAMATOLOGY”

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

“RATIONAL-EMOTIVE AND COGNITIVE-BEHAVIORAL THERAPIES FOR PSYCHOTIC SYMPTOMS (E.G. DELUSIONS): AN EVIDENCE-BASED APPROACH”

“ASSESSMENT AND VIRTUAL REALITY THERAPY IN THE STUDY OF PSYCHOTIC SYMPTOMS (E.G. DELUSIONS). IMPLICATIONS FOR RESEARCH AND CLINICAL PRACTICE”

Prof. Daniel David
Professor of Clinical Cognitive Science. Babeș-Bolyai University. Romania. Research Director of the Albert Ellis Institute. New York.

Closing Colloquium

With Philippa Garety. Elizabeth Kuipers, Henry Zvi Lothane, Daniel David and Dennis R. Combs.


XVIII ANNUAL SCHIZOPHRENIA COURSE
“Internal dialogue, hallucinations and therapeutic strategies”

Madrid, November 24 – 26, 2013

Course opening 2013

Prof.  Marius Romme
Retired Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Maastricht. Netherlands. Founder of the “Hearing Voices Movement”.
Prof. Sandra Escher
Honorary Research Fellow at Birmingham City University, Birmingham, United Kingdom.
Dr. Manuel González de Chávez.
Course Organizer.

WORKSHOP 1: “The impact of psychotic disorder: grief and recovery”

Prof. Antonio Tarí García
Psychiatrist. Group therapist. Coordinator of the Romareda Day Center (Aragón) and Mercedes Chico del Río, Clinical Psychologist, Psychiatry Service. C.A.U. Burgos.

WORKSHOP 2: “Group interventions to make hospital care more flexible: how to facilitate the return to the community”

Prof. Cristina Gisbert Aguilar
Psychiatrist. Head of the Hospital Rehabilitation Service. Sub-acute Unit: IAS. Girona and Susana Romero Palomino, Clinical Psychologist. Hospital Rehabilitation Service. Sub-acute Unit. IAS. Girona.

WORKSHOP 3: “Hearing voices and its meaning: why are self-help groups therapeutic? Inspiring the creation of a Spanish Intervoice network”

Prof. Olga Runciman
Psychologist, psychiatric nurse and patient who hears voices. Figurehead, writer and President of the Danish Intervoice Network.

WORKSHOP 4: Art therapy for the recovery of people with psychosis: “Once upon a time there was a character who feels…”

Prof. Rosa Cubillo López
Associate Professor at the University School of the Department of Didactics of Musical, Visual and Physical Expression at the University of La Laguna, and director of the art therapy workshop for the recovery of people with severe and persistent mental disorders, of the Canarian Association of Creative Therapies (AsCaTeC).

“INTERNAL DIALOGUE AND HALLUCINATIONS”

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

“THE MEDICALIZATION OF HALLUCINATIONS”

Prof. Rafael Huertas
Research Professor at the Institute of History – Center for Human and Social Sciences of the CSIC. Madrid.

“A DIALOGUE WITH THE PAST: WHAT HISTORY CAN TELL US ABOUT AUDITORY VERBAL HALLUCINATIONS (‘HEARING VOICES’)”

Prof. Dr. Simon McCarthy-Jones
Research Fellow at Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia.

“VOICES FROM WITHIN: CONTEMPORARY RESEARCH ON INTERNAL 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 CHILDHOOD”

Prof. Jack Jenner 
Adult, child and adolescent psychiatrist, psychotherapist and hypnotherapist. Haren, Netherlands.

“TRAUMA AND DISSOCIATION: MAKING SENSE OF PSYCHOSIS”

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

“VOICES AND SPIRITUALITY”

Prof. John Watkins
Mental Health Counselor, Melbourne, Australia.

“INTEGRATIVE THERAPY FOCUSED ON HALLUCINATIONS, A DURABLE AND COST-EFFECTIVE TREATMENT FOR HALLUCINATIONS REGARDLESS OF THEIR DIAGNOSIS ON AXIS I OF THE DSM-IV-TR”

Prof. Jack Jenner
Adult, child and adolescent psychiatrist, psychotherapist and hypnotherapist. Haren, Netherlands.

“A COGNITIVE-BEHAVIORAL APPROACH TO INTERNAL DIALOGUE AND VOICES”

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

“USING MEDICATION WISELY”

Prof. John Watkins
Mental Health Counselor, Melbourne, Australia.

“POWER IN THE EXPERIENCE OF PEOPLE WHO HEAR VOICES”

Prof. Sandra Escher
Honorary Research Fellow at Birmingham City University, Birmingham, United Kingdom.

“RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN THE CHARACTERISTICS OF VOICES AND THE PROBLEMS OF PEOPLE WHO HEAR THEM”

Prof. Marius Romme
Retired Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Maastricht. Netherlands. Founder of the “Hearing Voices Movement”.

Colloquium

With Marius Romme, Sandra Escher, Jack Jenner, John Watkins, Alison Brabban and Simon McCarthy-Jone


XVII ANNUAL SCHIZOPHRENIA COURSE
“Biography, family, narratives, psychotherapy of psychosis”

Madrid, November 29 – December 1, 2012

Course opening 2012

Prof. Dr. Brian Martindale
President of the International Society for the Psychological and Social Approaches to Psychoses.
Dra. Eudoxia Gay
President of the AEN.
Dr. Manuel González de Chávez
Course Organizer.

WORKSHOP 1: “Intervention with near-impossible patients: a transition program between the short-stay inpatient unit and the mental health center”

Prof. Montserrat Caballero González
Psychiatrist.

Prof. Juan José Belloso Ropero
Clinical Psychologist. Outpatient Care Program for Severe Mental Disorder of the Psychiatry Service at the 12 de Octubre University Hospital in Madrid.

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

Prof. José Juan Rodríguez Solan
Psychiatrist. Head of the Mental Health Service of Puente de Vallecas at the Virgen de la Torre Hospital in Madrid.

WORKSHOP 3: “The organization of group psychotherapeutic spaces in public services: a place for psychosis. Operative group conception”

Prof. Felipe Vallejo Jiménez
Clinical Psychologist. Psychotherapist. Coordinator of the Macarena Norte Community Mental Health Unit of Seville.

Prof. Lola Lorenzo López
Clinical Psychologist. Psychotherapist. Day Hospital at the Valme University Hospital in Seville.

WORKSHOP 4: “Rehabilitation of parental roles in women with severe mental illness”

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

WORKSHOP 5: “Therapeutic application of humor in people with severe mental disorder”

Prof. Mercedes Chico del Río
Clinical Psychologist. Coordinator of the Psychosocial Rehabilitation Center at the Fuente Bermeja Hospital, Burgos.

Prof. Alicia Martín Jurado
Clinical Psychologist. Psychiatric Rehabilitation Unit of the Healthcare Complex of Palencia.

Course opening

“BIOGRAPHY AND PSYCHOTHERAPY OF PSYCHOSIS”

Prof. Manuel González de Chávez
Former President of the International Society for the Psychological and Social Approaches to Psychoses.

“THE IDENTITY NARRATIVE OF THE PSYCHOTIC, BETWEEN FAMILY ORGANIZATION AND MYTHOLOGY”

Prof. Juan Luis Linares
Associate Professor of Psychiatry at the Autonomous University of Barcelona. Director of the Psychotherapy Unit and the Family Therapy School at the Hospital de San Pablo, Barcelona.

“THE PSYCHODYNAMICS OF PSYCHOSIS FOR ALL PHYSICIANS”

Prof. Brian Martindale
President of the International Society for the Psychological and Social Approaches to Psychoses.

“ADVANTAGES OF PSYCHOTHERAPEUTIC WORK IN THE HOME WITH THE FAMILIES OF PEOPLE WITH PSYCHOSIS”

Prof. Brian Martindale
President of the International Society for the Psychological and Social Approaches to Psychoses.

“NEED-ADAPTED TREATMENT AS A GLOBAL COMMUNITY APPROACH THAT INCREASES SOCIAL CAPITAL IN THE TREATMENT OF SEVERE MENTAL CRISES”

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

“IN SEARCH OF THE TIME LOST BY PSYCHOTIC PATIENTS: TRANSACTIONAL PAST, PREMORBID DEVELOPMENTAL ACHIEVEMENTS AND THERAPEUTIC PROCESS IN A MULTIPROFESSIONAL TEAM”

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

“USING PSYCHOTIC NARRATIVES IN FAMILY THERAPY FOR SCHIZOPHRENIA”

Prof. James Marley
Associate Professor and Director of Doctoral Programs at the Loyola University Chicago School of Social Work, United States.

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

Prof. James Marley
Associate Professor and Director of Doctoral Programs at the Loyola University Chicago School of Social Work, United States.

“PSYCHOSIS: DEVELOPMENT OF MULTIFAMILY THERAPY”

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

“PSYCHOSIS: EXPERIENCE ORGANIZING MULTIFAMILY THERAPY GROUPS”

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

“NARRATIVE COGNITIVE-BEHAVIORAL THERAPY IN THE UNDERSTANDING OF DELUSIONS. THE TRANSFORMATION OF MEANING OVER TIME”

Prof. John Rhodes
Honorary Professor at University College, London. Consultant Clinical Psychologist. Brent, Central and Northwest London, National Health Service Foundation Trust.

“NARRATIVE COGNITIVE-BEHAVIORAL THERAPY, DELUSIONS AND CHANGE”

Prof. John Rhodes
Honorary Professor at University College, London. Consultant Clinical Psychologist. Brent, Central and Northwest London, National Health Service Foundation Trust.


XVI ANNUAL COURSE ON SCHIZOPHRENIA
“Plural identity, dissociation, psychosis”

Madrid, November 24 – 26, 2011

Course opening 2011

Prof. Mari Fe Bravo Ortiz
Psychiatrist and psychologist. Head of the Psychiatry Service at La Paz Hospital in Madrid, Professor of Psychiatry at the Autonomous University of Madrid (UAM).
Dr. Iván de la Mata Ruiz
President of the Madrid Mental Health Association.
Dr. Manuel González de Chávez
Course Organizer.

WORKSHOP 1: “Psychotherapy and rehabilitation in patient recovery”

Prof. Mariano Hernández Monsalve
Psychiatrist and psychotherapist, Head of the Mental Health Services of Tetuán, Madrid.

Prof. Pilar Nieto
Psychiatrist and psychotherapist at the Mental Health Services of Tetuán, Madrid.

WORKSHOP 2: “Family therapy for psychoses: between detriangulation and reconfirmation”

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

WORKSHOP 3: “Group Psychotherapy in a Day Center for Psychotic Patients”

Prof. María Cañete
Psychiatrist, psychotherapist and group analyst, Tower Hamlets District, London.

Prof. Arturo Ezquerro
Psychiatrist, psychotherapist and group analyst, Brent District, London.

WORKSHOP 4: “From disconnection to movement: dance movement therapy for people with psychotic disorder”

Prof. Elena Cristóbal
Coordinator of the Movement and Dance Workshop of Tenerife.

Prof. Judit Nierga
Clinical Psychologist. Master’s in Dance Movement Therapy. Salt Day Hospital. Gerona.

WORKSHOP 5: “Integrative intervention to improve treatment adherence in people with psychotic disorders”

Prof. Mari Fe Bravo Ortiz
Psychiatrist and psychologist. Head of the Psychiatry Service at La Paz Hospital in Madrid, Professor of Psychiatry at the Autonomous University of Madrid (UAM).

Prof. Carmen Bayón
Psychiatrist and psychotherapist at La Paz Hospital and Professor of Psychiatry at the UAM.

WORKSHOP 6: (In English) “Training in the Structured Clinical Interview for DSM-IV and Proposed DSM-V Dissociative Disorders (SCID-D): Assessment, Diagnosis, and Therapy”

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

Course opening

“PLURAL IDENTITY AND PSYCHOSIS”

Prof. Manuel González de Chávez
Head of Psychiatry Service I. Gregorio Marañón General University Hospital. Madrid.

“HYSTERICAL PSYCHOSIS”

Prof. Tiburcio Angosto
Head of the Psychiatric Hospitalization Unit of the University Hospital Complex of Vigo.

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

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

“DISTINGUISHING DISSOCIATIVE MARKERS WITHIN APPARENTLY PSYCHOTIC SYMPTOMS”

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

“TRAUMA, DISSOCIATION AND PSYCHOSIS”

Prof. Colin A. Ross
C. Ross Institute of Psychological Trauma, Richardson, USA.

“CHILDHOOD TRAUMA AND PSYCHOSIS – THEORETICAL AND CLINICAL IMPLICATIONS” 

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

“IS IT 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, University of Aarhus, Denmark.

“THE STRUCTURAL DISSOCIATION OF PERSONALITY THEORY AS A MODEL FOR UNDERSTANDING DISSOCIATIVE PSYCHOSIS”

Prof. Onno van der Hart
Honorary Professor of Psychopathology of Chronic Traumatization, University of Utrecht, Netherlands.

“FORMS OF DISSOCIATIVE PSYCHOSIS: CHARACTERISTICS AND TREATMENT”

Prof. Onno van der Hart
Honorary Professor of Psychopathology of Chronic Traumatization, University of Utrecht, Netherlands.

“AUDITORY HALLUCINATIONS: PSYCHOTIC SYMPTOM OR DISSOCIATIVE EXPERIENCE?”

Prof. Andrew Moskowitz
Professor of Clinical Psychology, University of Aarhus, Denmark.

“TALKING TO VOICES: A PSYCHOTHERAPEUTIC APPROACH TO PSYCHOSIS”

Prof. Colin A. Ross
C. Ross Institute of Psychological Trauma, Richardson, USA


XV ANNUAL COURSE ON SCHIZOPHRENIA
“Crisis, emotions and psychosis”

Madrid, November 25 – 27, 2010

Course opening 2010

D. José Mª Sánchez Monge
President of FEAFES.
Dña. Ana Gumiel
President of FEMASAN.
Dr. Manuel González de Chávez
Course Organizer.

WORKSHOP 1: “Need-adapted group intervention in psychotic patients”

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

WORKSHOP 2: “Sport and recovery in people with psychotic disorders”

Prof. Ovidio Fernández Alonso
Psychiatrist – Coordinator of the UCR SERRALTA (GESMA), Mallorca.

Prof. Andrés López Pardo
Psychiatrist. Technician at the Andalusian Public Foundation for the Social Integration of People with Mental Illness (FAISEM).

WORKSHOP 3: “Cognitive behavioral therapy in people with delusions and verbal hallucinations”

Prof. Carlos Cuevas Yust
Doctor in Psychology.

Prof. Salvador Perona Garcelán
Associate Professor at the University of Seville, Mental Health Rehabilitation Unit “Virgen del Rocío”
“Virgen del Rocío” University Hospitals (Seville). Andalusian Health Service.

WORKSHOP 4: “Dancing with families: Psychotherapeutic approach to the family in the Day Hospital for psychotic disorders”

Prof. Diego Figuera Álvarez
Psychiatrist and Psychotherapist.

Prof. Cristina Díez-Alegría Gálvez
Doctor in Psychology and specialist in Clinical Psychology.
Ponzano Day Hospital of the Institute of Psychiatry and Mental Health at Hospital Clínico San Carlos in Madrid.

Course opening

“CRISIS, EMOTIONS AND PSYCHOSIS”

Prof. Manuel González de Chávez
Head of Psychiatry Service I.
Gregorio Marañón General University Hospital. Madrid.

“BY THEIR CRISES YOU SHALL KNOW THEM”

Prof. Fernando Colina Pérez
Psychiatrist. Head of the Psychiatry Service at the Río Hortega University Hospital. Valladolid.

“RECOVERY AFTER PSYCHOSIS: AN ATTACHMENT-BASED UNDERSTANDING OF AFFECTIVE REGULATION AND EMOTIONAL RECOVERY”

Prof. Andrew Gumley
Professor of Psychological Therapy at the University of Glasgow.

“TELLING STORIES: NARRATIVE COHERENCE AND PSYCHOLOGICAL THERAPY IN RECOVERY AFTER PSYCHOSIS”

Prof. Andrew Gumley
Professor of Psychological Therapy at the University of Glasgow.

“ART PSYCHOTHERAPY AND PSYCHOSIS: CONNECTING, CREATING, COMMUNICATING”

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

“EXPANDING THE FRAMEWORK: INCREASING ART THERAPY RESOURCES IN PSYCHOSIS RECOVERY STRATEGIES”

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

“POST-KRAEPELINIAN APPROACH TO EXPLAINING PSYCHOSIS”

Prof. Richard Bentall
Professor of Clinical Psychology. University of Bangor.

“THE PSYCHOLOGY OF PARANOID DELUSIONS”

Prof. Richard Bentall
Professor of Clinical Psychology. University of Bangor.

“UNBEARABLE AFFECT IN THE PSYCHOTHERAPY OF PSYCHOSES”

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

“PSYCHOLOGY OF THE SELF IN THE TREATMENT OF PSYCHOSIS”

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

“EMOTIONS AND SCHIZOPHRENIA – AN UNDERESTIMATED DIMENSION”

Prof. Luc Ciompi
Emeritus and Doctor Honoris Causa of the University of Lausanne.

“THE IMPACT OF THE EMOTIONAL ENVIRONMENT ON THE TREATMENT OF SCHIZOPHRENIA”

Prof. Luc Ciompi
Emeritus and Doctor Honoris Causa of the University of Lausanne.


XIV ANNUAL COURSE ON SCHIZOPHRENIA
“Psychosis: Communication, motivation and change”

Madrid, November 26 – 28, 2009

Course opening 2009

Dra. Mari Fé Bravo
President of AEN.
Dr. Pedro Cuadrado
President of AMS.
Dr. Manuel González de Chávez
Course Organizer.

WORKSHOP 1: “Group psychotherapy in bipolar and affective disorders”

Prof. Andrés Fernández -Cuevas
Psychiatrist

Prof. Isabel Rodríguez Gorostiza
Psychiatrist

Prof. Esther González Palomar
Nurse and Social Worker.
Psychiatry Service I. Gregorio Marañón General University Hospital. Madrid.

WORKSHOP 2: “Cognitive therapy at the onset of psychosis”

Prof. Oscar Vallina
Coordinator of the Psychosis Prevention Program of the Torrelavega Health Area. Cantabrian Health Service.

WORKSHOP 3: “Cognitive behavioral therapy in people with delusions and verbal hallucinations”

Prof. Carlos Cuevas Yust
Doctor in Psychology.

Prof. Salvador Perona Garcelán
Associate Professor at the University of Seville, Mental Health Rehabilitation Unit “Virgen del Rocío”, “Virgen del Rocío” University Hospitals (Seville). Andalusian Health Service.

Course opening

“SELF-DISCLOSURE IN THE PSYCHOTIC PATIENT”

Prof. Manuel González de Chávez
Head of Psychiatry Service I.
Gregorio Marañón General University Hospital. Madrid.

“INVISIBLE MENTALLY ILL?: CARE FOR HOMELESS MENTALLY ILL IN MADRID”

Prof. María Isabel Vázquez Souza
Coordinator of the Psychiatric Care Program for Homeless Mentally Ill in Madrid.

“PSYCHOSIS AND SUBSTANCE USE? MOTIVATIONAL ASPECTS?”

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

“INTEGRATING MOTIVATIONAL INTERVIEWING WITH COGNITIVE BEHAVIORAL THERAPY IN PEOPLE WITH PSYCHOSIS AND SUBSTANCE ABUSE”

Prof. Christine Barrowclough
Professor of Clinical Psychology.
“DIFFICULT PATIENTS AND COUNTERTRANSFERENCE IN PSYCHIATRY”

Prof. R. D. Hinshelwood
Professor at the Centre for Psychoanalytic Studies, University of Essex, United Kingdom.

VIDEO CONFERENCE – COLLOQUIUM FROM PALO ALTO

Prof. Irvin Yalom
Emeritus Professor of Psychiatry at Stanford University, on his work and his latest 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, University of Jyväskylä. Finland.

“GENERATING DIALOGUE IN OPEN MEETINGS WITH FAMILIES: HOW TO LEARN THE SKILL OF RESPONDING IN THE PRESENT”

Prof. Jaakko Seikkula
Professor of Psychotherapy, University of Jyväskylä. Finland.

“AWARENESS GROUPS IN DISTRESSING PSYCHOSES”

Prof. Paul Chadwick
Professor of Clinical Psychology. King’s College, London. United Kingdom.

“AWARENESS GROUPS IN DISTRESSING PSYCHOSES”

Prof. Paul Chadwick
Professor of Clinical Psychology. King’s College, London. United Kingdom.


XIII ANNUAL COURSE ON SCHIZOPHRENIA
“Psychosis: Culture, psychotherapy and integration”

Madrid, October 9 – 11, 2008

Course opening 2008

Dr. Dolores Crespo Hervás
Head of the Mental Health Services of the Community of Madrid
Dr. Antonio Barba
Psychiatry Service I, Gregorio Marañón Hospital. Madrid.
Dr. D. Manuel González de Chávez
Head of Psychiatry Service I. Gregorio Marañón General University Hospital. Madrid.

WORKSHOP 1: “Group psychotherapy for psychotic patients”

Dr. D. Manuel González de Chávez
Head of Psychiatry Service I. Gregorio Marañón General University Hospital. Madrid.

Dr. D. Ignacio García Cabeza
Physician at Psychiatry Service I, Gregorio Marañón General University Hospital. Madrid.

WORKSHOP 2: “Psychodrama in the treatment of psychoses”

Prof. Dña Rosa Rey Pousada
Clinical Psychologist at the Psychiatric Day Hospital of the Juan Canalejo-Marítimo de Oza University Hospital Center of La Coruña.

WORKSHOP 3: “The individual supported employment program as a labor integration strategy”

Prof. Francisco Rodriguez Pulido
Associate Professor of Psychiatry, University of La Laguna.

Prof. Elena Tallo Aldana
Psychologist of the Individual Supported Employment Team (EAIE). Island Psychosocial Rehabilitation Plan. Tenerife.

Lectures

“ANTHROPOLOGY AND PSYCHIATRY: THE CRITICAL CONNECTION”

Prof. Janis H. Jenkins 
Departamentos de Antropologia y Psiquiatría. Universidad de California-San Diego, USA.

“CULTURE, SUBJECTIVITY AND PSYCHOPHARMACOLOGY. ETHNOGRAPHIC STUDIES FROM NORTH AMERICA”

Prof. Janis H. Jenkins. 
Departments of Anthropology and Psychiatry. University of California-San Diego, USA.

“PATTERNS OF BONDING: COERCION AND CONTAINMENT AS THERAPIES OF DIFFERENCE?”

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

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

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

“APPROACHING SCHIZOPHRENIA. A PERSONAL ACCOUNT”

Prof. Helm Stierlin
Director del Departamento de Investigación Psicoanalítica y Terapia Familiar. Universidad de Heidelberg. Alemania.

“ABORDANDO LA PSICOSIS MANIACO-DEPRESIVA. UN RELATO PERSONAL” 

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

“GROUP TREATMENT WITH PSYCHOTIC PATIENTS AND THE ROLE OF THERAPISTS”

Prof. Ivan Urlic
Professor of Psychiatry and Medical Psychology, Faculty of Medicine. University of Split. Croatia.

“SUPERVISION OF GROUP PSYCHOTHERAPY WITH PSYCHOTIC PATIENTS. AND TRANSCULTURAL ASPECTS.”

Prof. Ivan Urlic
Professor of Psychiatry and Medical Psychology, Faculty of Medicine. University of Split. Croatia.

“THE RECOVERY FROM SCHIZOPHRENIA: ADOPTING THE OPTIMISTIC PROGNOSIS” 

Prof. Richard Warner
Director of “Colorado Recovery”, Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Colorado.

“EFFECTIVE REHABILITATION MODELS IN PSYCHOSIS”

Prof. Richard Warner
Director of “Colorado Recovery”, Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Colorado.

“PSYCHOTHERAPY OF SCHIZOPHRENIA PSYCHOSIS IN 2008: LOOKING BACKWARDS AND FORWARDS”

Prof. Yrjö Alanen
Emeritus Professor of Psychiatry. University of Turku. Finland.

“PRESENTATION OF THE BOOK ‘PSYCHOTHERAPEUTIC APPROACHES IN SCHIZOPHRENIC PSYCHOSES: PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE’, (EDITORS) Y.O. ALANEN, A-L.S. SILVER AND M. GONZÁLEZ DE CHÁVEZ.”

Prof. Yrjö Alanen
Emeritus Professor of Psychiatry. University of Turku. Finland.


XII ANNUAL COURSE ON SCHIZOPHRENIA
“Psychosis and therapeutic relationships”

Madrid, 22 – 24 noviembre de 2007

Course opening 2007

Dr. J.A. Espino Granados
Ministry of Health.
Dr. J.J. Melendo Granados.
Department of Health of the Community of Madrid.
Dr. D. Manuel González de Chávez
Head of Psychiatry Service I. Gregorio Marañón General University Hospital. Madrid.

WORKSHOP 1: “Group psychotherapy for psychotic patients”

Dr. D. Manuel González de Chávez
Head of Psychiatry Service I. Gregorio Marañón General University Hospital. Madrid.

Dr. D. Ignacio García Cabeza
Physician at Psychiatry Service I, Gregorio Marañón General University Hospital. Madrid.

WORKSHOP 2: “Setting up an assertive community treatment team”

Dr. D. Juan José Martínez Jambrina
Clinical Head of the Assertive Community Treatment Team. Coordinator of the Mental Health Service of Avilés. Asturias.

Dr. D. Enrique Peñuelas Carnicero
Head of the Mental Health Service. Asturias.

Lectures

“THERAPEUTIC RELATIONSHIPS IN PSYCHOSIS”

Dr. D. Manuel González de Chávez
Head of Psychiatry Service I. Gregorio Marañón General University Hospital.

“ART THERAPY OR ACCOMPANIMENT IN TRANSFORMATION THROUGH IMAGE CREATION”

Dña Rosa Cubillo López
Professor of Didactics of Visual Arts. Faculty of Fine Arts. University of La Laguna, Tenerife.

“THE AVILÉS MODEL FOR THE IMPLEMENTATION OF ASSERTIVE COMMUNITY TREATMENT.”

Dr. D. Juan José Martínez Jambrina
Clinical Head of the Assertive Community Treatment Team. Coordinator of the Mental Health Service of Avilés. Asturias.

“SCHIZOPHRENIA, SOCIAL SERVICES AND COMMUNITY CARE.”

Dr. D. Abelardo Rodríguez González
Technical Coordinator of the Social Care Plan for people with mental illness. Department of Family and Social Services of the Community of Madrid.

“MUSIC THERAPY IN PSYCHIATRY: DEFINITION AND SCIENTIFIC EVIDENCE”

Prof. Dr.Christian Gold

“MECHANISMS OF CHANGE: WHAT WORKS IN MUSIC THERAPY?”

Prof. Dr.Christian Gold

“PSYCHOTHERAPY WITH SCHIZOPHRENIC PATIENTS AT CHESTNUT LODGE HOSPITAL”

Prof. Dr. Christopher Keats

“FAMILY THERAPY AND NEED-ADAPTED APPROACH”

Prof. Dr. Klaus Lehtinen
Professor of Psychiatry and Medical Psychology, Faculty of Medicine. University of Split. Croatia.

“CREATING A SHARED UNDERSTANDING OF THE PATIENT”

Prof. Dr. Klaus Lehtinen

“OBJECTIVE AND SUBJECTIVE ASPECTS OF PSYCHOSIS”

Prof. Dr. Johan Cullberg
Director of “Colorado Recovery”, Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Colorado.

“TRATAMIENTOS INTEGRADOS EN LA PSICOSIS AGUDA”

Prof. Dr. Johan Cullberg
Director of “Colorado Recovery”, Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Colorado.

“COLLOQUIUM ON SCHIZOPHRENIA WITH FOREIGN PROFESSORS”

Prof. Dr. Johan Cullberg
Prof. Dr. Klaus Lehtinen
Prof. Dr. Christopher Keats
Prof. Dr.Christian Gold


Madrid, June 12 – 16, 2006

Celebration of the 50th Anniversary of the ISPS.

12 Special Lectures:

1: “Towards an integrative psychiatry: theoretical and clinical considerations on psychosis”

Yrjö Alanen

2: Soteria Berne – 22 years of experience with an innovative milieu therapy approach in acute schizophrenia

Luc Ciompi

3: “Pathways to Recovery” and John Nash’s “Beautiful Mind”

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 Different Faces of Resistance”

Courtenay Harding

8: The schizophrenias: a comprehensive “translational” model

Brian Koehler

9: “The Stress-Vulnerability Model Revisited: Strengthening its Utility for Service Users and their Families”

Malcolm Stewart

10: “The Split Self in Psychosis”

Andrew Lotterman

11: “Moving from Being a Disorder to Coping with Life: an Experiential Exploration of the Association Between Trauma and Psychosis”

Wilma Boevink

12: “International Research on Schizophrenia and Patient-Centered Models – Analysis of Research Presented Over Two Decades”

Timothy Calton

9 Special Workshops

1: “Family dynamics and family-context interventions for preventing the progression to psychosis in schizophrenia and major affective disorders”

William McFarlane

2: “The Finnish need-adapted treatment plan for psychoses. Demonstration of its practices.”

Klaus Lehtinen

3: “Manic-depressive psychosis – psychogenesis and psychotherapy: from hospital to outpatient care”

Brian Martindale

4: “Making Sense of Voices.”

Marius Romme y Sandra Escher

5: “Experiences of the ‘Parachute Project’ for first psychotic episodes in Sweden.”

Johan Cullberg

6: “Using cognitive therapy in subtypes of delusional disorder”

Kieron O’Connor

7: “Understanding the global context, a systematic perspective of psychosis”

Susan Mitchell 

8: “HIT, a comprehensive treatment for auditory hallucinations. The program and its cost-benefit ratio”

Jack Jenner

9: “Working with families of people with schizophrenia”

Julian Leff

3 Debates

1: The concept of schizophrenia in 2006: Bury it in the history of psychiatry or retain and modify it?

Brian Martindale y Courtenay Harding

2: The role of family and mental illness associations in the design of mental health policies

Franciso Morata y Rosa Ruíz Salto

3: Involuntary community treatment and treatment adherence.

Francisco Torres-González y Luís Barrios y Nels Langsten

34 Symposia

20 Workshops

36 Oral communication sessions

120 Posters presented


XI ANNUAL COURSE ON SCHIZOPHRENIA
“Identity, subjectivity and psychotic experiences”

Madrid, December 2 – 3, 2005

Opening

Dra. Paloma Soria Valle
Technical Advisor of the Health Planning and Quality Office.
Dr.Francisco Ferré Navarrete
Head of the Mental Health Services of Madrid.
Dr. D. Manuel González de Chávez
Head of Psychiatry Service I. Gregorio Marañón General University Hospital. Madrid.

Presentations

“The psychotic experience: Crisis of identity and crisis of insight”

Dr. D. Manuel González de Chávez
Head of Psychiatry Service I. Gregorio Marañón General University Hospital.

“Identity and delusion”

Dr. D. Antonio Díez Patricio
Associate Professor of Psychiatry at the Faculty of Medicine. University of Córdoba. Coordinator of the “Córdoba-Centro” Mental Health Center. Córdoba.

“Corporeality and psychotic experiences”

Dr. D. Rogelio Luque
Associate Professor of Psychiatry. University of Córdoba. Psychiatry Unit. “Reina Sofía” General University Hospital. Córdoba.

“Certainty as experience and as axiom”

Dr. D. José María Álvarez
Psychoanalyst. Doctor in Psychology. Clinical Psychologist of the Mental Health Services of Valladolid.

“The schizophrenias: a perspective that takes us from DNA to the person”

Prof. Dr. Brian Koehler.

“The schizophrenias: phenomenological and psychoanalytic approaches”

Prof. Dr. Brian Koehler

“Insight in psychosis: problems of empirical research”

Prof. Dra. Ivana Marková

“The structure of insight: implications for empirical research”

Prof. Dra. Ivana Marková

“Making sense of voices: relationships with psychotic experience and illness”

Prof. Dr. Marius Romme y Dra. Sandra Escher

“Trauma and schizophrenia”

Prof. Dr. Marius Romme y Dra. Sandra Escher

“Subjectivity and psychosis”

Prof. Dr. John Strauss

“A psychiatry that is both human and scientific”

Prof. Dr. John Strauss


X ANNUAL COURSE ON SCHIZOPHRENIA
“Psychotherapies and early interventions in schizophrenia”

Madrid, November 26 – 27, 2004

Opening

Ilmo. Sr. D. Enrique Terol
Deputy Director General. Agency for Quality of the NHS
Ilmo. Sr. D. José Julián Díaz Melguizo
Deputy Director General of the Madrid Health Service
Dr. D. Manuel González de Chávez
Head of Psychiatry Service I. “Gregorio Marañón” General University Hospital.

Presentations

“The importance of group psychotherapy from the first psychotic crisis”

Dr. D. Manuel González de Chávez
Head of Psychiatry Service I. “Gregorio Marañón” General University Hospital.

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

Dr. D. Ignacio García Cabeza
Psychiatrist. Psychiatry Service I, “Gregorio Marañón” General University Hospital.

“The process in intervention programs directed at families of schizophrenic patients: What is the active ingredient?”

Prof. Dr. D. Manuel Gómez Beneyto
Professor of Psychiatry. University of Valencia.

“Early intervention in psychosis: The Torrelavega experience”

Dr. D. Oscar Vallina
Psychologist. Mental Health Unit of Torrelavega. Cantabria.

“To treat or not to treat what we understand as premorbid in schizophrenic psychoses”

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

“Early interventions in first psychotic episodes: logic, structure and results of the Scandinavian TIPS program”

Prof. Dr. Jan Olav Johannessen

“Intervention strategies for untreated first episodes”

Prof. Dr. Jan Olav Johannessen

“The Danish national program for schizophrenia: a comparative and longitudinal study of first psychotic episodes”

Prof. Dr. Bent Rosenbaum

“Language and thought in the psychotherapy of people with schizophrenia. Some semiotic reflections”

Prof. Dr. Bent Rosenbaum

“Developing an Asian model of early intervention programs in psychoses (EPIP). Service description and initiatives in Singapore”

Prof. Dr. Lyn Chua

“An innovative psychotherapeutic approach that underlines the importance of cultural aspects in patients with first episodes of psychosis”

Prof. Dr. Lyn Chua

In honor of Loren Mosher

“The treatment of acute psychoses without neuroleptics. Two years of evolution of the Soteria Project”

Prof. John Bola

“The treatment of acute psychoses without neuroleptics. Two years of evolution of the Soteria Project”

Prof. John Bola


IX ANNUAL COURSE ON SCHIZOPHRENIA
“Combined psychotherapies in schizophrenia and other psychoses”

Madrid, November 28 – 29, 2003

Presentations: Course opening

Dr. D. Francisco de Paula Rodríguez Perera
Director of the “Gregorio Marañón” General University Hospital
Dra. Dª Rosa Ramos Pérez
Deputy Medical Director of the “Gregorio Marañón” General University Hospital
Dr. D. José Jaime Melendo
Director of Mental Health Programs – Department of Health of the Community of Madrid.

“Combined therapies: Do we mix, confuse, deconstruct or combine”

Dr. D. Jorge Tizón
Director of the Sant Martí Mental Health Unit. Barcelona.

“Combined therapies in schizophrenia”

Dr. D. Manuel González de Chávez
Head of the Psychiatry Service. “Gregorio Marañón” General University Hospital.

“Combined therapies in bipolar disorders”

Dr. D. Andrés Fernández-Cuevas
Psychiatrist. Psychiatry Service I. “Gregorio Marañón” General University Hospital.

“Psychodrama and schizophrenia”

Dra. Dña. Marisol Filgueira Bouza
Psychologist. Psychiatry Unit. Marítimo de Oza Hospital. La Coruña.

“Formal psychodrama: the practical is the theory”

Dra. Dña. Rosa Rey Pousada
Psychologist. Day Hospital of La Coruña.

“Group psychotherapy in the development of community mental health services for schizophrenic patients in Israel. A study based on 25 years of experience”

Prof. Dr. Shalom Litman

“Continuity and contiguity between the hospital and the community in the treatment of schizophrenia”

Prof. Dr. Shalom Litman

“Multifamily psychoanalysis in schizophrenia and other psychoses”

Prof. Dr. García Badaracco

“Theory of illness and healing in psychiatry”

Prof. Dr. García Badaracco

“Dynamic and biological aspects of psychosis. An integrative vision”

Prof. Dr. Johan Cullberg

“Five years of the ‘Parachute Project’ in Sweden. A controlled study of need-adapted treatment in first psychotic episodes”

Prof. Dr. Johan Cullberg

“We must abandon the obstacles to integrative approaches in schizophrenic psychoses”

Prof. Dr. Yrjö Alanen

“Colloquium on schizophrenia”

Prof. Dr. Yrjö Alanen and Prof. Dr. Johan Cullberg


VIII ANNUAL COURSE ON SCHIZOPHRENIA
“Recovery in Schizophrenia”

Madrid, November 29 – 30, 2002

Presentations: Course opening

Dr. D. Francisco de Paula Rodríguez Perera
Director of H.G.U. “Gregorio Marañón”.
Dr. D. José Antonio Serra Rexach
Assistant Director. H.G.U. “Gregorio Marañón”.
Dr. D. Francisco Ferre Navarrete
Head of the Mental Health Department. CAM.

“Evolution of the treatment of schizophrenia”

Prof. Dra. Dña. Carmen Leal 
Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Valencia.

“Study of psychosis deterioration through multidimensional symptom models”

Dr. D. José María Villagrán Moreno
Coordinator of the Psychiatric Hospitalization Unit. Hospital de Jerez de la Frontera. Andalusian Health Service. Cádiz.

“Recovery from crisis”

Dr. D. Manuel González de Chávez
Head of Psychiatry Service I. “Gregorio Marañón” General University Hospital.

“The step-by-step model: social integration of the person with severe schizophrenia”

Prof. Dr. D. Francisco Torres González
Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Granada.

“The recovery from schizophrenia in Spain”

Dr. Ignacio García Cabeza
Madrid Psychiatric Hospital

Dra. Nieves González Suárez
Madrid Psychiatric Hospital

Dra. Paz García Benito
CSM Colmenar Viejo. Madrid.

“Recovery in Finland and other Scandinavian countries”

Dra. Outi Kalla
Professor, Faculty of Psychology. University of Jyväskylä. Finland.

“Schizophrenia: a view from Colombia”

Dr. D. Juan Carlos Rojas
Professor of Psychiatry. Universidad Libre. Cali. Colombia.

“Remission versus recovery in schizophrenia”

Prof. Dra. Courtenay Harding

“Key questions for reassessing those who appear stuck in recovery”

Prof. Dra. Courtenay Harding

“The importance of emotional factors in schizophrenia, according to the concept of affectology”

Prof. Dr. Luc Ciompi

“Soteria-Berne: a therapeutic application of the concept of affectology”

Prof. Dr. Luc Ciompi

“Colloquium on schizophrenia”

Profesores Luc Ciompi and Courtenay Harding


VIII ANNUAL COURSE ON SCHIZOPHRENIA
“Psychotherapy and psychoeducation in schizophrenia and other psychoses”

Madrid, November 23 – 24, 2001

Course opening

Dr. D. Javier Hernández Pascual 
Director General of Health of the CAM
Dr. D. Alfredo Macho Fernández 
Director of H.G.U. “Gregorio Marañón”
Dr. D. Gerardo Riquelme Arias
Assistant Director. H.G.U. “Gregorio Marañón”

“Psychotherapy in schizophrenia”

Dr. D. Manuel González de Chávez 
Head of Psychiatry Service I. H.G.U. “Gregorio Marañón”

“Psychoeducational groups in psychotic patients”

Dr. D. Iñaki Eguiluz
Associate Professor of Psychiatry, University of the Basque Country. Cruces Hospital. Barakaldo.

“Rehabilitation program of the Vallecas district. Psychoeducation and quality of life in schizophrenia”

Dña. Ana García Olmos
Psychologist at the CSM of Vallecas.

Dña. María Mellizo Cuadrado
Nurse at the CSM of Vallecas.

“Psychoeducational treatment in bipolar patients focused on anxiety responses and stress assessment/coping”

Dra. Dña. Olga Torralba Sánchez
Psychologist. Research Fellow. H.G.U. “Gregorio Marañón”.

Dra. Dña. Isabel Rodríguez Gorostiza
Clinical Head Psychiatrist. H.G.U. “Gregorio Marañón”.

“Group psychotherapy in outpatient bipolar patients”

Dr. D. Andrés Fernández-Cuevas
Psychiatrist. H.G.U. “Gregorio Marañón”.

“Understanding and psychoanalytic approach to psychosis”

Dr. D. Enrique Rivas Padilla
Head of the Mental Health Service of Hortaleza. Madrid.

“Interpretation, signaling and confrontation. Analysis of the bond in schizophrenia”

Dr. D. Nicolás Caparrós
Imago. Psychoanalytic Clinic. Madrid.

“The education of delusion”

Dr. D. Fernando Colina
Psychiatrist. Mental Health Services. Valladolid.

“Combining concepts and intuitions: a psycho-biological and educational approach to the treatment of schizophrenia in a mental health unit in the United Kingdom”

Prof. Dr. Dianna C. LeFevre y Prof. Dr. Malcolm Pines

“New insights on ‘mirroring’ from developmental psychology, neuropsychology and psychotherapy”

Prof. Dr. Malcolm Pines

“Family psychoeducation and multifamily groups: a treatment of choice in schizophrenia”

Prof. Dr. William Mc.Farlane

“Early intervention in psychotic disorders: the family as a therapeutic resource”

“Colloquium on schizophrenia”

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


VI ANNUAL COURSE ON SCHIZOPHRENIA
“The onset of schizophrenia”

Madrid, November 24 – 25, 2000

Course opening

Dr. D. Javier Hernández Pascual 
Director General of Health of the CAM
Dr. D. Alfredo Macho Fernández 
Director of H.G.U. “Gregorio Marañón”

“The premorbid personality in the schizophrenic patient”

Dr. D. José Juan Rodríguez Solano
Head of the Colmenar Viejo Mental Health Center. Madrid.

“Symbiosis and vulnerability in schizophrenia”

Dr. D. Juan Carlos Fraile 
Psychologist. H.G.U. “Gregorio Marañón”.

Dra. Dña. Beatriz Lara 
Psychiatrist. H.G.U. “Gregorio Marañón”

“Psychosocial vulnerability in psychotic disorders”

Dr. D. Juan Antonio Hormaechea Beldarrain
Psychiatrist. H.G.U. “Gregorio Marañón”.

“Stress factors involved in schizophrenia”

Dra. Dña. Pilar García Pelayo
Psychiatrist. H.G.U. “Gregorio Marañón”

“Prepsychotic period and prodromal symptoms in psychosis”

Dra. Dña. Eva Rivas Cambronero
Psychiatrist. H.G.U. “Gregorio Marañón”.

“The untreated period of first psychotic episodes. A comparative study in Spain and Finland”

Dra. Dña. Outi Kalla 
Research Fellow. H.G.U. “Gregorio Marañón”.

Dr. D. Ignacio García Cabeza
Cantoblanco Psychiatric Hospital. Madrid.

“Early assessment and intervention in psychosis. Studies in the Basque Country”

Prof. Dr. D. Miguel Gutiérrez Fraile
Associate Professor of Psychiatry. Head of Psychiatry Service, Cruces Hospital. Vizcaya.

“The first episode of schizophrenia: psychopathological aspects and predictors of clinical course”

Prof. Dr. D. José Luís Vázquez-Barquero
Professor of Psychiatry. University of Cantabria.

“Detection and management of the onset of psychosis: the prepsychotic phase and early detection”

Prof. Dr. Patrick Mc.Gorry

Prof. Dr. Jukka Aaltonen

“The global approach of a municipal service for the treatment of psychoses through multiprofessional therapeutic meetings”

Prof. Dr. Jukka Aaltonen

“Detection and management of the first psychotic episode and the critical period”

Prof. Dr. Patric Mc. Gorry

Colloquium on schizophrenia

With prof. Patrick Mc. Gorry and Jukka Aaltonen


V ANNUAL COURSE ON SCHIZOPHRENIA
“Psychotherapeutic and psychosocial interventions in schizophrenia”

Madrid, November 26 – 27, 1999

Course opening

Dr. D. Antonio Barba Ruiz de Gauna 
Director General of Health of the CAM
Dr. D. Alfredo Macho Fernández 
Director of H.G.U. “Gregorio Marañón”
Dra. Dña. Blanca Reneses 
Head of Mental Health Services of the CAM

“The therapeutic relationship with the schizophrenic patient”

Dr. D. Manuel González de Chávez
Head of Psychiatry Service I. H.G.U. “Gregorio Marañón”

“Psychoanalytic approach to the relationship with the psychotic”

Dr. D. Jaime Melendo Granados
Head of the Mental Health Service of Tetuán. Madrid.

“Family and comprehensive treatment in schizophrenia”

Dr. D. Luis Cabrero Ávila 
Coordinador de la Unidad de Terapia Familiar del Hospital Clínico de Barcelona.

“Psychotherapy in an institutional setting with schizophrenic patients: the recovery of psychic capacity”

Dra. Dña. María Isaura Manso Neto
Psychiatrist and Group Analyst. Day Hospital. Santa Maria University Hospital of Lisbon.

“Foundations and needs of psychosocial interventions in schizophrenia”

Dr. D. José García González 
Head of Psychiatry Service. General Hospital of Asturias. Oviedo.

“Social integration programs for schizophrenic patients”

Dr. D. Ladislao Lara Palma 
Director of the Andalusian Foundation for the Social Integration of the Mentally Ill.

“Employment integration programs for schizophrenic patients”

Dr. D. Marcelino López Álvarez
Director of the Mental Health Program of the Andalusian Health Service.

“Early interventions in schizophrenia: Myth or reality?”

Prof. Dr. D. Max Birchwood

“Randomized research on hospital and community care of patients with serious mental disorders”

Prof. Dr. D. Wayne S. Fenton

“Cognitive therapy of psychotic symptoms”

Prof. Dr. D. Max Birchwood

“Evolution and perspectives of individual psychotherapy for schizophrenia”

Prof. Dr. D. Wayne S. Fenton

Colloquium on schizophrenia

With Prof. Max Birchwood and Wayne S. Fenton


IV ANNUAL COURSE ON SCHIZOPHRENIA
“Schizophrenia and subjective experiences”

Madrid, November 27 – 28, 1998

Course opening

Dr. D. Antonio Barba Ruiz de Gauna 
Director General of Health of the CAM
Dr. D. Alfredo Macho Fernández 
Director of H.G.U. “Gregorio Marañón”
Dra. Dña. Blanca Reneses 
Head of Mental Health Services of the CAM

“Instruments for the research of insight in schizophrenia”

Dra. Marta Sanz Amador
Psychiatrist. Cantoblanco Hospital. Madrid.

“Self-colloquy and self-esteem of the schizophrenic patient”

Prof. Dr. D. Demetrio Barcia Salorio
Professor of Psychiatry. University of Murcia.

“Self-deception and schizophrenia”

Dr. D. Manuel González de Chávez 
Head of Psychiatry Service I. H.G.U. “Gregorio Marañón”

“Predictive factors of treatment compliance in schizophrenia”

Dr. D. Emilio Sánchez Díaz
Psychiatrist. Resident. H.G.U “Gregorio Marañón”

Dr. D. Ignacio García Cabeza
Psychiatrist. Research Fellow. H.G.U. “Gregorio Marañón”

“Subjective experiences and functional psychoses: clinical and nosological aspects”

Dr. Víctor Peralta 
Head of Psychiatry Service – Virgen del Camino Hospital. Pamplona.

“The subjective experience of defect”

Dr. Manuel Camacho 
Head of Service and Associate Professor of Psychiatry. Macarena Hospital. Seville.

“Depressive experiences in the schizophrenic patient”

Dra. Marta Gutiérrez 
Psychiatry Resident. H.G.U. “Gregorio Marañón”

“Suicide, hopelessness and schizophrenia”

Dr. D. Ramón Gracia
Associate Professor of Psychiatry. University of La Laguna. Tenerife.

“Auditory hallucinations: from phenomenology to neuroimaging”

Prof. D. Anthony S. David

“Coping possibilities in the schizophrenic patient”

Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Böker

“The problem of illness awareness in schizophrenia”

Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Böker

“Insight and schizophrenia”

Prof. D. Anthony S. David

Colloquium on schizophrenia

With Prof. Wolfgang Böker and Anthony S. David


III ANNUAL COURSE ON SCHIZOPHRENIA
“Family and group psychotherapy in schizophrenia”

Madrid, November 28 – 29, 1997

Course opening

Dr. D. Alfredo Macho Fernández
Director of H.G.U. “Gregorio Marañón”
Dra. Dña. Blanca Reneses
Head of Mental Health Services of the CAM
Dr. D. Manuel González de Chávez
Head of Psychiatry Service I. H.G.U. “Gregorio Marañón”

“Why group psychotherapy in schizophrenia?”

Dr. D. Manuel González de Chávez 
Head of Psychiatry Service I. H.G.U. “Gregorio Marañón”.

“Group therapeutic factors in schizophrenia”

Dr. Mauricio Ducajú
Professor of Psychiatry. University of Murcia.

Dra. Dolores Rico Bodi  
Psychiatrist. Sant Joan de Déu Hospital. Barcelona.

“Analysis of two groups for inpatients: schizophrenia and affective disorders”

Dr. D. Juan Carlos Fraile
Psychologist. Clinical Head. H.G.U. “Gregorio Marañón”.

Dra. Isabel Rodríguez Gorostiza
Psychologist. Clinical Head. H.G.U. “Gregorio Marañón”.

“Analysis of two groups for schizophrenic patients: inpatients and outpatients”

Dr. D. Ignacio García Cabeza
Psychiatry Resident. H.G.U. “Gregorio Marañón”.

“Analysis of two groups for outpatients: schizophrenia and neurotic disorders”

Dr. D. Enrique González Duro 
Psychiatrist. H.G.U. “Gregorio Marañón”.

Dr. D. Alfonso García-Ordás
Director of the Psychiatric Hospital of Mérida.

“Role of psychoeducational family approaches in the treatment of schizophrenia”

Dra. Maribel Montero 
Associate Professor of Psychiatry. University of Valencia.

“Family psychoeducation in schizophrenia: a limited intervention”

Dr. D. Fco. Javier Sanz Fuentenebro 
Psychiatrist. “12 de Octubre” Hospital. Madrid.

“Evolution of schizophrenia: psychoeducation and associated factors”

Dr. D. Víctor Aparicio 
Psychiatrist. Mental Health Services of Asturias.

Dra. Ana Esther Sánchez
Head of Service. Mieres Health Area. Asturias.

“The integrated model adapted to needs and the therapeutic process”

Prof. Dr. Klaus Lehtinen

“Experiences of a psychosis team”

Prof. Dr. Viljo Räkköläinen

“Family therapy as part of the integrated treatment of first episodes of schizophrenic psychosis”

Prof. Dr. Viljo Räkköläinen

“Combining psychoeducation and need-adapted systemic family therapy”

Prof. Dr. Klaus Lehtinen

Coloquio sobre la esquizofrenia

With Prof. V. Räkköläinen and K. Lehtinen


II ANNUAL COURSE ON SCHIZOPHRENIA
“Schizophrenia and subjective experiences”

Madrid, November 25 – 26, 1996

Course opening

Dr. D. Alfredo Macho Fernández  
Director of H.G.U. “Gregorio Marañón”
Dra. Dña. Blanca Reneses
Head of the Mental Health Service of the Community of Madrid.
Dr. D. Manuel González de Chávez
Head of Psychiatry Service I. H.G.U. “Gregorio Marañón”

“Reflections from clinical practice”

Prof. Dr. D. Antonio Colodrón Álvarez
Psychiatrist. Madrid.

“Research on premorbid personality and premorbid adjustment in schizophrenic patients”

Dr. D. José Juan Rodríguez Solano
Psychiatrist, Colmenar Viejo Mental Health Center. Madrid.

“Research on insight in schizophrenic patients”

Dr. D. Manuel González de Chávez 
Head of Psychiatry Service I, H.G.U. “Gregorio Marañón”. Associate Professor of Psychiatry at the Complutense University of Madrid.

“Research on subjective response to neuroleptics”

Dr. D. Ignacio García Cabeza y Dra. Marta Sanz Amador
Psychiatry Resident. H.G.U. “Gregorio Marañón”. Madrid.

“Dimensional clinical models in schizophrenia”

Dr. D. Víctor Peralta
Associate Professor of Psychiatry. Virgen del Camino Hospital. Pamplona.

“Cognitive dysfunction in schizophrenic dimensions”

Dr. D. Manuel Cuesta 
Associate Professor of Psychiatry. Virgen del Camino Hospital. Pamplona.

“Assessment of the needs of schizophrenic patients”

Prof. Dr. D. Francisco Torres
Associate Professor of Psychiatry. University of Granada.

“Violence in the schizophrenic patient”

Dr. D. Celso Arango
Psychiatry Resident. H.G.U. “Gregorio Marañón”

Dr. D. Alfredo Calcedo Barba
Associate Professor of Psychiatry. Complutense University 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.

Colloquium on schizophrenia

With Prof. Dr. William T. Carpenter Jr.


I ANNUAL COURSE ON SCHIZOPHRENIA
“Therapeutic Programs in schizophrenia”

Madrid, 25 – 26 noviembre de 1995

“Combined therapies and therapeutic process”

Dr. D. Alfonso García-Ordas 
Director of the Psychiatric Hospital of Mérida.

“Evaluation and evolution of patients in psychotherapeutic programs”

Dr. D. Manuel González de Chávez
Head of Psychiatry Service I. H.G.U. “Gregorio Marañón”

“Continuity of care in the schizophrenic patient”

Dr. D. Tiburcio Angosto Saura 
Head of the Psychiatry Service at the “Rebullón” Psychiatric Hospital in Vigo.

“Rehabilitation in the treatment of schizophrenia”

Dra. Dña. Margarita Laviana Cuetos
Clinical Director of the Miraflores Hospital in Seville.

“Rehabilitation of the chronic mentally ill: day centers and mini-residences”

Dr. D. José-María Fernández Chavero
Director of the Psychosocial Rehabilitation Center of Area 1 of Madrid.

“Therapeutic programs adapted to the needs of schizophrenic patients”

Prof. Y. Alanen 
Emeritus Professor of the University of Turku (Finland)

“National program for the development of research, treatment and rehabilitation of schizophrenia in Finland”

Prof. Y. Alanen
Emeritus Professor of the University of Turku (Finland)

Colloquium on schizophrenia