International 7th Conference on Psychotherapy
"Psychotherapist. Peace and war. Power and love"

23-25 October 2015, Krakow, Poland

Polish Federation for Psychotherapy, Polish Association for Integrative Psychotherapy and Independent Crisis Psychotherapists of Ukraine invite for the International Conference “Psychotherapist. Peace and war. Power and love”.

In extremal conditions, psychotherapy has to be effective. It is connected with responsibility, since one cannot undo what has happened. That is why we want our conference to create space for all, that is extreme in the psychotherapy profession which confronts us with the war in its various aspects.

Conference website: www.peaceandwar.eu

We shall look, with our eyes wide open, at all wars, from which real peace and inner strength may arise. Sometimes these are the inner wars of our patients. But the essential meaning of war is when one country invades another.

Peace requires space for war. The psychotherapist, facing life and death at their fullest gains power, wisdom and the ability to respond to his clients' needs; gains the courage to lead people towards peace and happiness.

Our conference shall serve psychotherapeutic practice. We shall meet as clinicians and
as scientists to share our experience and knowledge how to provide better aid for our clients.

Polish Association for Integrative Psychotherapy

The Polish Association for Integrative Psychotherapy (PTPI) is the first organization registered in Poland which associates psychotherapists who have integrated different approaches in psychotherapy for several years.

PTPI sets standards for training and certification of psychotherapists who want to focus on integrative modality.

PTPI is a professional organization of psychotherapists, who, in their attitude towards their profession, intend to step beyond limits of particular psychotherapeutic approach.

PTPI disseminates knowledge of new psychotherapy methods and knowledge arising from clinical experience caring about their scientific verification.

Integrative approach as a scientific approach is based on empirical verification of not only the already existing but also the newly established directions in psychotherapy.

To create and strengthen psychotherapy as a profession and a scientific discipline is an important goal of the Association. The status of psychotherapy being concurrently a medical profession and a humanistic one, its requirement for high standards of training, practices and ethics, and the awareness that psychotherapy practised at a high level becomes art are factors that bring a particular dimension to psychotherapy. The Association is a member of the European Association for Psychotherapy and through its activities makes it possible for the Polish psychotherapists to become part of the international community. The Polish Association for Integrative Psychotherapy is not a mass organization and its program is addressed to active professionals who take the values of their profession seriously.