Conference Agenda

Overview and details of the sessions of this conference. Please select a date or location to show only sessions at that day or location. Please select a single session for detailed view (with abstracts and downloads if available).

Please note that all times are shown in the time zone of the conference. The current conference time is: 15th Sept 2026, 11:03:19am EEST

 
Date: Tuesday, 25/Aug/2026
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1:00pm		 Oral Session 2: Identity Reconstruction and Repositioning
Location: Amphitheatre II (KEDEA)
Chair: Prof. HERNAN SANCHEZ RIOS, Universidad del Valle
 

Autobiographical Tattoos and Self-Construction

Csilla Cseko1, Anna Cseko-Szel2

1: University of Pécs, Hungary; 2: Regional Psychiatry Hospital Randers, Denmark


Voices of Culture Within the Woman’s Self: Rethinking the Ideal Self Through Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis

Anife Fevzieva, Vasily Kostenko

HSE University, Russian Federation


Multiple I-Positions of a Soldier Amputee Due to an Anti-Personnel Mine

Hernan Sanchez Rios, Javier Noreña Salas

Universidad del Valle, Colombia


The Liberating Power of Dialogue in Arrested Transitions

Marta B. Erdos

University Of Pécs, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Hungary
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3:30pm		 Oral Session 4: Motherhood, Loss and Transformation
Location: Amphitheatre II (KEDEA)
Chair: Prof. Kristiina Uriko, Tallinn University
 

Voices Across the Divide: Rethinking Gender Identity and the Tension Between Similarity and Difference in Adult Mother–Daughter Conversations

Ronit Even Zahav

Ruppin Academic Center, Israel


Dialogical Self — Created to Be Integrated: Formation of the Maternal Bond

Kristiina Uriko, Roland E. Uriko

Tallinn University, Estonia


Maternal Grief: In the Space Between Silence and Words — Experiencing the Loss of a Child in the Tempi Train Disaster

Kia Thanopoulou

Family Therapy Unit, Greece/ Integrated Mental Health Care Unit of Attica


Beyond the Mother Role: A Dialogical Exploration of Identity, Care, and Separation Through a Dream

Ifigenia Sotiropoulou

"Logo Psychis" -Training and Research Institute for Systemic Psychotherapy, Greece
4:00pm
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5:00pm		 Invited Workshop 2
Location: Amphitheatre II (KEDEA)
 

Parts, Voices and Positions: A Dialogue Between Dialogical Self Theory and Internal Family Systems Theory in the Context of Multiplicity-Informed Psychotherapy

Polina Roussou

Logo Psychis'- Training and Research Institute for Systemic Psychotherapy, Greece
5:15pm
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6:45pm		 Oral Session 6: Psychological Adaptation, Recovery and Mental Health
Location: Amphitheatre II (KEDEA)
Chair: Barbara Mainguy, Coyote Institute
 

Dialogical Self Theory In Collaborative Writing. Qualitative Research With Clinicians And People With Treatment-Resistant Schizophrenia (TRS)

Giacomo Chiara1, Elena Faccio2, Andrea de Bartolomeis3, Felice Iasevoli4, Roberto Vitelli5

1: University of Naples, Italy; 2: University of Padua, Italy; 3: University of Naples, Italy; 4: University of Naples, Italy; 5: University of Naples, Italy


Challenges in Outcome Studies for Dialogical Self-Therapies

Barbara Mainguy1,2, Lewis Mehl-Madrona1,2,3,4

1: Coyote Institute, United States of America; 2: Maine Street Medicine Works, PLLC; 3: Northern Light Acadia Psychiatry Residency, Bangor, Maine; 4: Department of Native Studies, University of Maine, Orono


Co-constructing "Being Understood" in Life-Story Interviews: A Dialogical Narrative Analysis of Brain Tumor Illness Narratives

Yingdi Liang

The University of Tokyo, Japan