Science & Research Symposium (SRS)
📅Saturday, 5 September📍Cork City Hall 🕒15:00 – 18:30
15:00 – 16:00: Introductory Keynote Lecture (45 min + 15 min Q&A)
Chair: Frank Röhricht (London)
• Steve Gillard (Professor of Mental Health Care, City St. George’s University of London): Mixed-method paradigms in contemporary Psychotherapy Research – matching subjectivity, experience and embodiment with evidence based requirements
16.00 – 17.00: Body Psychotherapy Research in Action: Integrating embodiment (60 min)
Chairs: Kalina Raycheva (Sofia) and Courtenay Young (Edinburgh)
• Courtenay Young: Introducing the new case study collection (15 min + 5 min Q&A)
• Yaniv Gafner (Doctoral researcher, University of Haifa): Patients’ experiences of body
psychotherapy in routine practice – insights from qualitative interviews (15 min + 5
min Q&A)
• Frank Röhricht: The COBOLT study – manualised group Body Psychotherapy for patients with complex PTSD (15 min + 5 min Q&A)
17.00: Break (30 min)
17.30 – 18.30: Research & Practice in Body Psychotherapy (60 min)
Chair: Biljana Jokić (Belgrade)
• Wolf Mehling (Professor, University of California): The MAIA Model in Practice: Utilising Outcome Measures in Body Psychotherapy (15 min + 5 min Q&A)
• Aaron Freedman (USABP) & Biljana Jokić (EABP SRC): Exploring Research Together:
Building an EABP–USABP Network (10 min introduction + 30 min interactive discussion)