The 4th International IEDTA Conference was attended by about 320 participants from around the world. Presentations were of very high quality, all augmented by audio-visual highlights of psychotherapy sessions to illustrate the subjects under discussion. This year we achieved a new standard with all audio-visual work being enhanced by subtitling to make it easier to understand the dialog.
The dinner and dancing on Saturday night included a ridiculously funny skit to "say goodbye" to the outgoing IEDTA president, Ferruccio Osimo, and to welcome Allen Kalpin as the new president. The party goers were dressed in all sorts of creative costumes to go along with the conference's fairy tale theme. There were some very creative portrayals of "Princesses and Peas." Lively and enthusiastic dancing went on until late in the night, fueled by the dynamic music of a fantastic klezmer band.
It was a great pleasure to be in the beautiful and historic Danish city of Aarhus, and the conference location was lovely on the university campus beside a lake. We look forward to our 5th International Conference in 2009 which will be in North America. Stay tuned to this website for more information.
This 3-day International Conference is organized by the International Experiential Dynamic Therapy Association (IEDTA) in co-operation with the Danish Academy for Integrated Psychotherapy (AIP). The International conference will take place in Aarhus , Denmark , from 24 - 26 August 2007. The presentations will be held in the “Lakeside Lecture Theatres”, situated at the Aarhus University Campus.
The presenters at this IEDTA Conference are therapists from different schools of Short-Term Dynamic Psychotherapy. These different schools, all Experiential Dynamic Therapies, share a belief that the experiencing of repressed painful emotions as an important curative factor.
The focus of the conference will be on the treatment of character or personality disorders and whether the different schools of Experiential Dynamic Therapy really are effecting meaningful change
The 4 th international IEDTA conference is open to:
all colleagues, who are interested in the State of the Art of Experiential Dynamic Therapy.
students of clinical psychology, of psychotherapy , of psychiatry in their last year of training
English will be the spoken language.
The conference is accredited for Category I Continuing Education Credits and Continuing Education Units for Physicians, Nurses, Psychologists and Psychotherapists, Licensed Social Workers, Marriage and Family Counselors according to APA, AMA criteria.
Presenters
The following colleagues already accepted the invitation to present :
Fairy tales are stories about supernatural characters such as giants, witches, trolls, dragons, or about animals, poor people, princes and princesses. The setting is mostly an undefined (once upon a) time and place, which nevertheless is often closely related to the society in which the tale was originally told and retold. This is certainly true for the famous fairy tales of the Danish author Hans Christian Andersen (1805 - 1875). His fairy tales - as most fairy tales do - touch on universal themes. They tell about cruelty and redemption, that comes at a high price or they tell about a transformation. Either a physical transformation (e.g. the frog turns into a handsome prince) or/and a character change of one of the protagonists (e.g. the ugly duckling turns out to have been a swan all along).
Patients, who enter psychotherapy for their complaints and character or personality disorders have become alienated from their own values, thoughts and feelings. Because of their diminished ability to enter or/and maintain constructive intimate relationships with themselves and others they often suffer from loneliness.
The various schools of Experiential Dynamic Therapy do their best to help their patients by stimulating them to end their stoic acceptance of (and sometimes even satisfaction with) their self-destructive defenses, which have become so habitual to them. In the process of establishing a working alliance, the therapist will take care that the patient's ego adaptive capacity is well enough restructured. In this way the process of uncovering traumatic experiences and repressed impulses and painful feelings, and of experiencing them, will go forward without unintended negative consequences.
The measurement and analysis of meaningful change plays a central role in treatment-effect studies.
Most EDT-therapists think it important to monitor their patient's change. Technology like video-recording made it possible to evaluate whether and how meaningful change evolves during the therapy process.
Whether Character Change will remain a Fairy Tale or will have become reality will hopefully become clear at the end of the conference The final say goes to the Conference participant!
Registration Fee
Prior to March 1, 2007
euro 280.-
or DKK 2075.-
or US $ 350.-
After March 1, 2007
euro 315.-
or DKK 2340.-
or US $ 395.-
Coffee, Tea and Lunches are included in the registration fee.
Student colleagues are eligible for a 10% discount of the registration fee.
The fees are payable to:
Payment in euros to:
Drs. J. de Labije
Fasanenstrasse 28
10719 Berlin, Germany
Account nr. 2402866 of Postbank
IBAN: NL 08PSTB 0002 4028 66
BIC: PSTBNL 21
Account nr 10187362 BG Bank
IBAN: 1 930 000 010 187 362
SWIFT - BIC: DABADKKK
Specify: IEDTA 2007 conference
NB: please take care that you also pay for your transfer charges!
Cancellation Arrangements
For cancellation before March 1, 2007
a refund of 90 % of the registration fee will be made.
For cancellation after March 1 and before July 1, 2007
a refund of 75 % of the registration fee will be made.
No refunds can be made after July 1, 2007.
Accommodation
From August 23 until August 27, 2007 (4 nights) we have reserved a limited number of rooms for the participants in two 3-star hotels. Note that the hotel expenses are not included in the conference fee. Participants wishing to make use of this arrangement are requested to indicate this on their registration forms.
We have reserved 25 double rooms at the Hotel Cab Inn Aarhus.
The price for a single occupancy per night is 525 DKK + 40 DKK breakfast
The price for a double occupancy per night is 645 DKK + 80 DKK breakfast
NB : We ourselves think the 12 square meter rooms rather small for double occupancy
We have reserved 15 double rooms at the Hotel Ritz/Best Western.
The price is 1095 DKK including breakfast
We have reserved 2 single and 15 double rooms at the Hotel Guldsmeden Aarhus.
The price for a single room per night is 895 DKK
(at this moment equivalent to 120 euro and 151 US $).
The price for a double room per night is 1095 DKK
(at this moment equivalent to 147 euro, 185 US $).
We have reserved 4 double rooms at the hotel Villa Provence .
The price for a double room per night is 1095 DKK
(at this moment equivalent to 147 euro, 185 US $).
Those colleagues, who are interested in more modest prices could consider looking at the website of the Aarhus hostel (www.aarhus-danhostel.dk).
Dining
On Saturday, August 25th there will be a Dinner and Dance Party for the participants (and their partners). We will take the opportunity to thank Ferruccio Osimo, MD for being one of the founders of the IEDTA and for having been the first President. He fullfilled this job with courage, grace and wisdom. We will welcome Allen Kalpin, MD as the second President.
Note that the price is not included in the conference fee.
Dress code: Festive with a touch of Fairy Tale.
Information
For further information, please contact one of the conference co-organizers:
