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The 14th ISPS Croatia School of Psychotherapy of Psychoses, with a focus on Empowerment and Recovery, took place at the Inter-University Centre, Dubrovnik during May 2009. This year the School started with visiting a psychosocial institution in Lecce, Italy, in the frame of network of community psychiatry organization. Dr Marcello Viola, the main organizer of the network, and the whole staff of the institution were exposing new developmental lines of community psychiatry. The following discussion on impressions involved many psychiatrist, clinical psychologists and psychiatric nurses from all over Croatia, Slovenia, and participants from other countries. Gonzales de Chavez, one of guest lecturers from Spain, delivered to lectures regarding the main focus of the School. Another guest lecturer from France, Guy Gimenez delivered his work with patients experiencing psychotic hallucinations. Croatian psychiatrists were presenting their work on “The influence of shame and stigma to the recovery of psychotic patients” (Ivezic, Urlic), and on “Early intervention in first episode of psychosis” (Restek-Petrovic).
Conference Report
14th School of Psychotherapy of Psychoses of the ISPS Croatia, May 2009
Conference Report
ISPS Croatia Conference, May 2008
"Toward comprehensive psychotherapy of the psychoses", focus on depression and psychosis. more...
Review of the 2007 meeting
The 11th ISPS Croatia School of Psychotherapy of Psychoses
In the beautiful city of Dubrovnik, in the frame of Inter-University Centre (and under auspices of Croatian Medical Assotiation, Croatian Assotiation for Clinical Psychiatry, Section for Psychotherapy and Psychosocial Treatment of Psychoses, and IGA Zagreb) the 11th School of Psychotherapy of Psychoses was held, May 8-11th 2007. The co-organisers of the professional event, Sladjana Ivezic and Ivan Urlic, under the guideline: ''Toward Comprehensive Psychotherapy of Psychoses'' this year put the usual focus on ''aggression and psychosis''. more...