We have invited world leading experts from a range of psychotherapeutic approaches to shed light on challenges like: When to regulate and when to activate emotions? How to get pass the obstacle of not feeling? What to do when emotions from past memories present themselves in the present? Our goal is to provide a deeper understanding of how these emotional impasses can be turned into healing and growth.
Dr. Allan Abbass is the founding Director of the Centre for Emotions and Health at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Canada.
Dr. Abbass's clinical speciality and research focus is the use of Intensive Short-Term Dynamic Psychotherapy (ISTDP), for the treatment of somatic symptom disorders, anxiety, depression and personality disorders.
Leslie Greenberg, Ph.D. is Distinguished Research Professor Emeritus of Psychology at York University in Toronto.
He has authored the major texts on Emotion-focused approaches to treatment. His latest books are Changing emotion with emotion: A practitioners guide(2021) and Working with shame and anger(2023).
He received the American Psychological Association Award for Distinguished Professional Contribution to Applied Research, the Society for Psychotherapy Research (SPR) Distinguished Research Career award and the Carl Rogers award of the APA Society for Humanistic Psychology.
Nancy McWilliams is Visiting Professor Emerita at Rutgers University's Graduate School of Applied & Professional Psychology and practices in Lambertville, New Jersey.
She is author of Psychoanalytic Diagnosis (1994, rev. ed. 2011), Psychoanalytic Case Formulation (1999), Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy (2004), and Psychoanalytic Supervision (2021), and is associate editor of the Psychodynamic Diagnostic Manual, 2nd ed. (2017). A former president of Division 39 (Psychoanalysis) of the American Psychological Association, she has been featured in three APA videos of master clinicians, the most recent being "Three Approaches to Psychotherapy". She is on the Board of Trustees of the Austen Riggs Center in Stockbridge, Massachusetts. Her books are available in 20 languages; she lectures widely both nationally and internationally.
