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Thursday, July 17
 

10:00 CEST

11:00 CEST

12:00 CEST

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Thursday July 17, 2025 12:00 - 12:30 CEST
Thursday July 17, 2025 12:00 - 12:30 CEST
Lecture Hall 302-303

14:00 CEST

WORKSHOP - Functionalia
Thursday July 17, 2025 14:00 - 18:00 CEST
This presentation focuses on ideas that help us achieve goals, regardless of how objectively correct or incorrect, falsifiable or verifiable they may be. Such regularities—whether about the world, humanity, ourselves, etc.—that allow us to create order and meaning out of the chaos of life, even if they do not necessarily reflect an ‘objective reality’, will hereinafter be referred to as Functionalia (F). These are statements that serve a meaningful purpose, regardless of their factual accuracy.
Replacing maladaptive F with more purposeful F can be seen as a central—if not the guiding—principle of (almost) all therapeutic approaches. In cognitive behavioral therapy, this is referred to as “functional cognitions” (Einsle & Hummel, 2015, p. 20); in other modalities, as “reframing” (see e.g., Barker & Chang, 2013, p. 156; Gilligan, 2019, p. 60; Popescu, 2023, p. 23); and in individual psychology, as “fictions” (Wiegand, 1995, pp. 152–153).
Beyond psychotherapy, many schools of thought also operate with diverse F—across philosophy, religion, and culture. The positive effects of engaging with such Functional Systems (FSys) have been well documented, particularly in the context of religion (see e.g., Schwalm et al., 2022; Lucchetti et al., 2021; Thomas & Barbato, 2020).
It can be assumed that adopting helpful F from existing FSys leads to better outcomes than developing them independently. Likewise, therapists who are familiar with a variety of perspectives and their associated F are likely to be more effective in helping clients reshape or create new Functionalia than those working solely within their own school of thought.
Disciplines such as psychotherapy, philosophy, religion, and cultural studies could benefit from a structured exchange of F. Importantly, Functionalia should not be limited to academia—they can be understood as fundamental guiding structures of human thinking and action across all domains of life. Actively engaging with F can thus offer valuable insights and practical benefits in fields such as education, entrepreneurship, elite sports, politics, diplomacy, prevention of extremism, inclusion, and more.
This presentation explores two key questions: (1) How can the exchange of F between different FSys be organized in a structured way? And (2) how can both patients and therapists gain access to individually helpful F? The focus will be on the development of a shared (IT-supported) platform. This foundational work aims to lay the groundwork for a new field of research and education.
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Thursday July 17, 2025 14:00 - 18:00 CEST
Lecture Hall 302-303
 
Friday, July 18
 

10:00 CEST

LECTURE - Intergenerational Transmission of Emotion Regulation as a Risk Factor for Maternal Burnout: A Qualitative Case Study
Friday July 18, 2025 10:00 - 10:45 CEST
This study is part of the International Investigation on Parental Burnout led by Roskam and Mikolajczak. While quantitative research on parental burnout is growing, there is a lack of qualitative studies addressing its intergenerational dimensions, especially how emotion regulation, stress, and attachment patterns are transmitted between generations.
Clinical observations suggest an increase in maternal burnout despite improved parental support policies. Young mothers today, although better supported through extended maternity leave and parenting groups, report high levels of emotional exhaustion. This study explores whether relational patterns between young mothers and their own mothers may contribute to this.
Using a semi-structured interview for grandmothers, aligned with the protocol developed by Roskam et al. (2023) for mothers, we conducted a qualitative case study of nine grandmother–mother dyads. Each mother also completed the Parental Burnout Assessment.
Findings suggest that grandmothers’ histories of childhood loss, violence, emotional detachment, or mental health issues—as well as difficulties in their own mothering—may be significant relational risk factors for maternal burnout in their daughters.
These insights highlight the need for therapeutic interventions that address intergenerational dynamics, not just individual symptoms. Support for grandmothers could enhance their emotional availability, benefiting both their daughters and grandchildren. Further research with more dyads and inclusion of fathers is needed to deepen understanding of the familial transmission of burnout risk.
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avatar for Andreja Poljanec

Andreja Poljanec

About the personDr. Andreja Poljanec, university graduate psychologist, marriage and family therapist, lecturer and head of the Psychology study program at Sigmund Freud University Vienna – Ljubljana branch, also lectures at the Faculty of Applied Social Studies in Nova Gorica... Read More →
Friday July 18, 2025 10:00 - 10:45 CEST
Lecture Hall 302-303

11:00 CEST

11:45 CEST

15:30 CEST

16:30 CEST

WORKSHOP - Lifespan Integration – A Gentle and Deeply Effective Therapeutic Method
Friday July 18, 2025 16:30 - 18:00 CEST
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avatar for Ismini Ohm-Zalitis

Ismini Ohm-Zalitis

About the person:Ismini Ohm-Zalitis is a social worker and psychotherapist based in Stockholm, Sweden, where she works both clinically and online. In addition to her therapeutic practice, she teaches and supervises Lifespan Integration together with her colleagues.Her original training... Read More →
avatar for Bodil Lindstrom

Bodil Lindstrom

About the person:Bodil Lindström is a trained psychotherapist as well as a teacher and supervisor in Lifespan Integration. She first encountered the method in 2005, at the end of her initial psychotherapy training. At that time, Peggy Pace, the founder of Lifespan Integration, offered... Read More →
avatar for Kristina Pettersson

Kristina Pettersson

About the person:Kristina Pettersson is a licensed psychotherapist specialized in trauma therapy. With a professional background in dance therapy, she combines artistic expression with psychotherapeutic practice, offering a nuanced understanding of the many layers of human communication... Read More →
Friday July 18, 2025 16:30 - 18:00 CEST
Lecture Hall 302-303
 
Saturday, July 19
 

10:30 CEST

WORKSHOP - Balintgruppe
Saturday July 19, 2025 10:30 - 12:30 CEST
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avatar for Ulrike Altendorfer-Kling

Ulrike Altendorfer-Kling

About the person:Ulrike Altendorfer-Kling Child and Adolescents Psychiatrist and Expert in Psychotherapeutic Medicine. She is medical director of the Kinder-Jugend-Seelenhilfe (Pro Mente Salzburg) and Psychotherapist (Psychodrama, Soziometry and Roleplay).She is training therapist... Read More →
Saturday July 19, 2025 10:30 - 12:30 CEST
Lecture Hall 302-303

14:00 CEST

LECTURE - DIE SCHACHFIGUREN-GESELLSCHAFT - Polarisierung zerstört. Mitte sichert Zukunft
Saturday July 19, 2025 14:00 - 14:45 CEST
DIE SCHACHFIGUREN-GESELLSCHAFT - Polarisierung zerstört. Mitte sichert Zukunft.

Einführung: Wir können jetzt alle erkennen, dass das demokratische Europa immer mehr in eine Krise schlittert, welche von Polarisierung, Aggression, Gewalt, Kriegen, Umweltzerstörung, digitalen und medialen Verirrungen und Wirtschaftsproblemen geprägt ist. Aus meiner Sicht wird dies vor allem durch die Ignoranz, Benachteiligung und Ausbeutung der Mitte der Gesellschaft verursacht. Wobei die Zerstörung der Mitte nicht nur soziologisch-politisch-demokratisch zu betrachten ist, sondern auch mit Blick auf die wachsenden körperlichen, geistigen und seelischen Defizite in den Individuen. Ich möchte dem allgemeinen Verfall der Mitte aktiv entgegentreten, indem ich den Wert und die für das Überleben der Menschheit so große Nützlichkeit der Mitte-Menschen und ihrer wesentlichen Gruppierungen, dem unternehmerischen Mittelstand und der angestellten Mittelschicht sichtbar mache und Lösungen für den Erhalt der Mitte erbringe. Das Ziel meiner Forschung und Arbeit ist es, die Kriterien für eine Zurück zur Mitte-Findung von Individuen, Gruppen, Gesellschaft und Politik zu erfassen und daraus Lösungen abzuleiten.

Dafür habe ich seit 2008 mit Gallup 10 Wellen der „Mittelstandsbarometer“-Bevölkerungs Meinungsumfrage (n=1000) durchgeführt, hunderte Interviews mit Angehörigen der Mitte gemacht und aufgezeichnet, hunderte Menschen des Mittelstands wirtschaftlich-persönlich gecoacht und mich in eigenen Mental/Meditations-Trainings mit den Teilnehmenden auf die Suche nach den individuellen psychisch-seelischen Ursachen des Mitte-Verlustes gemacht. Daraus ist u.a. mein neues Buch "Mein Herz schlägt in der Mitte" entstanden. https://herzindermitte.at/

Kleiner Ausschnitt aus den Mittelstandsbarometer-Umfragen: https://www.lobbydermitte.at/newsroom/mittelstandsbarometer/ Bevölkerung schätzt Konzerne, Politik und Finanzwirtschaft als bis zu 18 Mal einflussreicher und durchsetzungsstärker als den Mittelstand ein. Nur 4% meinen, dass Mittelstand politischen Einfluss hat, aber 66% die Politik und gar 76% die Konzerne. 36% bekennen sich jedoch zur Wertegemeinschaft Mittelstand der Werte Leistung, Eigentum, Nachhaltigkeit und Fairness. 90% halten Mittelstand für wichtig, ein „all time high“. Mittelstand ist auch klare Nr.1 als „Österreich-Voranbringer“. Totale Schieflage zwischen enormer Mittelstands-Wertschätzung und enttäuschender Mittelstands-Lobby-Ohnmacht. 34% sehen in keiner Partei eine Mitte-Partei. Die Kluft zwischen dem als Hauptleistungsträger anerkannten Mittelstand/Mittelschicht und der als Lobbying-Profiteure angesehenen Welt der Konzerne und Politik wird immer größer. Siehe https://www.lobbydermitte.at/2024/04/02/politisches-erdbeben-in-der-mitte/

Schlussfolgerung: Trotz gegenlautender Aussagen populistischer Politiker, hat die Mitte der Gesellschaft nicht nur sehr geringe interessenpolitische Unterstützung, sie wird auch medial zwischen extremistischen Polarisierungen auf einen Punkt reduziert, was verheerende Auswirkungen auf die gesamte Gesellschaft hat und die Menschheitsexistenz-gefährdende „Schachfigurengesellschaft“ zur Folge hatte: Oben den dicken Kopf des gierigen Monopol Kapitalismus. Unten die riesige, mit Brot & Spielen zufrieden gehaltene sowie mit Spaltung beschäftigte Working Poor Masse. Dazwischen die Mitte der Gesellschaft, die sich kaum mehr durchsetzen kann, weiter ausgehöhlt wird und damit den immer dünner werdenden Hals der Schachfiguren-Gesellschaft bildet. In der Schachfiguren-Gesellschaft läuft die Umverteilung "logischerweise" überwiegend von Mitte zu Arm und Reich. https://www.lobbydermitte.at/2023/09/06/kampf-der-schachfiguren-gesellschaft-2/ Durch eine Verknüpfung von politischen Meinungsumfragen, individuell-psychologischen Interviews, soziologischen Workshops und ganzheitlichen Ansätzen könnte die Grundlage für eine Verbesserung der Situation der Mitte erreicht werden, was letztlich der Gesamtbevölkerung, der Demokratie, Europa und der Klimawende zu Gute käme.
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avatar for Wolfgang Lusak

Wolfgang Lusak

About the personMag. Wolfgang Lusak is the founder of the association “Lobby der Mitte” as well as a business consultant, lobbying expert, mental coach, and marketing specialist. The “center of society” has become his life’s work. He was a manager at Unilever, Gillette... Read More →
Saturday July 19, 2025 14:00 - 14:45 CEST
Lecture Hall 302-303

15:00 CEST

WORKSHOP - A body psychotherapeutic approach to the emerging crisis of gender identity and gender roles in youth
Saturday July 19, 2025 15:00 - 18:00 CEST
Gender alone has become a determining factor in the development and construction of an individual's identity and personality and, consequently, the growing urge to define it within and for oneself. This definition has a direct influence on the concept of self-image, self-esteem, authenticity and belonging, affecting the mental and emotional health of young people (and future adults).

My work intends to shed some light on gender dysphoria as an environmental, generational and political symptom of our contemporary society and its demands.

My methodology provides a broad and generalized bibliographical review of worldwide research on the topic of gender identity and its consequences on mental health, as well as experimental methods and approaches to the psychotherapeutic work. Moreover, I have developed theoretical ideas and approaches that have emerged from empirical work with children and adolescents in my clinical practice over the last ten years. I also conducted Psychological Research Interviews to bring in lived experiences, and formulated deliberate hypotheses with my fellow psychologists, psychotherapists and psychiatrists.

My theoretical approach is based on the psychological and archetypal concepts of gender identity and sexuality, gender roles and gender expression, as well as the Eastern and Western assumptions of female/male vs. woman/man, not forgetting the neurobiological and neurochemical basis that underpins it all.

My practical approach addresses the work with the soma and trauma related traits, associated with the dysphoria, namely, the transition from the dorsal vagus to the ventral vagus (a Polyvagal approach) and the regulation of the autonomic nervous system. Furthermore, I stablish a transferencecountertransference type of work from a Humanistic and Integrative perspective which is essential in reconstructing the individual’s sense of identity.

Awareness of gender roles and societal disparities, as well as early developmental trauma, misrepresentation of sexual and gender identity and identification, can contribute to the desire for gender change. In all cases, feelings of disgust and shame were identified regarding the “unwanted” gender.

Although the focus of treatment and diagnosis remains mainly on the physical aspect, the problem of gender (dysphoria) does not reside in the external image, but in the inner image that has been neglected for far too long. Somatic psychotherapy addresses and works on the inner image through the soma (in addition to the cognitive aspects). It is necessary to shift the focus away from the physical/biological/aesthetic matter. The matter is not so much biological (yet), but rather psycho-emotional and existential with a somatic translation, which is why more psychoeducation is needed, without excluding the movement to attempt to include different gender roles
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avatar for Tatiana Raquel Martinhe  Neves

Tatiana Raquel Martinhe Neves

ECP holder and an affiliated member of the EAP
Saturday July 19, 2025 15:00 - 18:00 CEST
Lecture Hall 302-303
 

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