THE CONTROVERSY AT THE EFTA CONFERENCE

ATHENS 2016
September 26 – October 1

Dear friends of Antistixis

The 9th conference of the European Family Therapy Association (EFTA) is an event. 150 Existential Systemic Psychotherapists of Counterpoint have already signed up and will participate in a meeting of cultures and scientific understandings, where there will be solid foundations that unite us and a diversity that enriches us.

We inform you that the collaborators and psychotherapists of the Antistixis community will present issues and concerns from an existential-systemic point of view during the conference.
Particularly:

Saturday 1/10, 9.00 – 10.30 OLYMPIA B [ENG/GR] INVITED SYMPOSIUM_016. "When systemic family therapy is enriched by an existential perspective." Dimitris Karagiannis.

Saturday 1/10, 12.15 – 13.45 MACEDONIA B SYMPOSIUM_016 [GREEK] Freedom begins with words: Existential systemic psychotherapy. ORGANIZER: Eleni Karagiannis, INTERVIEWER: Dimitris Karagiannis. "Desire and transcendence in the private path of the therapist" Eleni Karagiannis. "The Emergence of Existential Systemic Psychotherapy" Dimitris Karagiannis. "Relapse of Life" Maria Georgakopoulou. "The universal human experience of loneliness - A double reading" Irini Sideri.

Thursday 29/9, 11.00-12.00 room VERGINA, WORKSHOP_018 (experiential/interactional) [ENGLISH] Working with couples, groups and families using receptive music therapy Evangelia Papanikolaou.
Thursday 29/9, 12.15-13.15. SUITE ROOM 823, WORKSHOP_031 (experiential/interactional) [GREEK] The heroes from my fairy tale Elena Kyriazopoulou, Elena Poulopoulou.

Friday 30/9, 9.00-10.30 KOZANI PROJECT SESSION_005 [GREEK] Art in the service of psychotherapy. Maria Marangkopoulou.

Friday 30/9, 9.00-10.30 FLORINA PROJECT SESSION_006 [GREEK] The emergence of parenthood as a therapeutic step: "The evaluation of the multi-year experience of five systemic therapists in public sector bodies in Greece during the economic crisis. Intervention or accompaniment?' Athena Micha, Sofia Svoronou, Zefi Thanasoula, Evangelia Vlahava, Aikaterini Vlahoutsou.

Friday 30/9, 16.30-18.00 LOBBY SUITE BRIEF COMMUNICATION SESSION_019 [GREEK]. Systemic routes of the Athenian Mental Health Center of the "Sotaria" General Hospital. "Polis" in crisis. Manzio Vasiliki.

Friday 30/9, 16.30-18.00 LOBBY SUITE BRIEF COMMUNICATION SESSION_019 [GREEK]. Family with teenagers: parallel routes on the same trip. Reflecting existential questions in the waiting room of the Adolescent Therapeutic Department through drawings, scattered words and colors Iacovou L. 1 , Vlahava E. 2 , Kostopoulou D. , Moraitaki A.

Saturday 1/10, 10.45–11.45 ARISTOTELIS 2 WORKSHOP_073 (experiential/interactional) [GREEK]. Searching for the Meaning of "Home" in Bereavement Therapy Maria Georgakopoulou.
POSTER AGORA (MACEDONIA A&B, NAOUSA, EDESSA, KOZANI Foyer, PP_007 The couple as combination of two paternal systems-how partners are deeply related through their own knowledge for themselves. Celia Dimouli, Panagiotis Varkopoulos.
POSTER AGORA (MACEDONIA A&B, NAOUSA, EDESSA, KOZANI Foyer, PP_021 Psychotherapy versus Neurobiology: A literature review Eirini Sideri, Maria Sideri.
POSTER AGORA (MACEDONIA A&B, NAOUSA, EDESSA, KOZANI Foyer PP_022 Child with Autism: interactions between family and school systems Tagkouli Evdokia.
POSTER AGORA (MACEDONIA A&B, NAOUSA, EDESSA, KOZANI Foyer, PP_031 Family and addiction: an interdisciplinary peer group training program using a synthesis of postmodern collaborative methods and experiential techniques in family therapy and systemic practice of addictions. Mouzaki M.
Friday 30/9, 16.30-18.00 room Olympia B "Training Therapists for New and Changing Realities" EFTA-TIC. Antistitsis participation with the creation of collages by Maria Kalea, Lida Michailidou, Christina Kokoliou, Angeliki Soumani, Matina Diakaki.

Katerina Vachla, Filio Harila, Maria Mouzaki, Fotini Bei, Niki Dragou, Viki Nikolaou, have assumed the role of Messager who will shape the important messages that will emerge during the Conference.

Miriana Selaković will coordinate the group of Serbian Psychotherapists who will participate in the Conference.

We are very happy for all the participations and wish everyone to benefit from and enjoy the Conference.

Until we meet again

Dimitris – Eleni Karagianni