The Encounter with the Other:
The Space Where Love and Threat Confront Each Other

The University of Padua is delighted to host the 24^th International Congress of Personal Construct Psychology from the 13^th to the 16^th of July 2022.

After the sad but inevitable cancellation of the Barcelona conference in 2020 due to the Covid-19 pandemic and the date change of the Padua congress, the PCP community once again has the opportunity to meet and share ideas as it usually does since 1976.

The title of the congress, The Encounter with the Other: The Space where Love and Threat Confront Each Other, decided by the Organising Committee prior to the planetary emergency, takes on a new meaning at a time when the search for relationships between individuals and people must come to terms with the need for social distancing measures. The hope is that in Padua in July 2022 we all can meet, talk, discuss, and enjoy food, drink and music without wearing masks and gloves.

It is worth noting that the Congress will coincide with the celebration of the 800th anniversary of the University of Padua.

Organised and hosted by the Department of General Psychology of the University of Padua

The Department of General Psychology (DPG), established in 1919, is devoted to world-class empirical studies of human and animal psychology. Its researchers are interested in virtually all aspects of normal and pathological behaviour, cognition and emotion are investigated. Multidisciplinary approaches are widely implemented and include cognitive, clinical, psychophysiological, neuropsychological, cognitive neuroscience, psychometrics, social and human-computer interaction methods as well as those related to modeling.

The University of Padua is an Italian University located in the city of Padua, Italy. The University of Padua was founded in 1222 as a school of law. Padua is the second-oldest University in Italy and the world’s fifth-oldest surviving University. In 2010 the University had approximately 65,000 students, in 2016 was ranked “best University” among Italian institutions of higher education with more than 40,000 students, and in 2018 best Italian University according to ARWU ranking.

in collaboration with

Istituto Costruttivista Narrativo

ICoNa SB (Institute of Narrative Constructivism) was founded in Padua in 2021 but is firmly grounded in a more than twenty years’ history of clinical practice and psychotherapy teaching. Its birth is aimed at offering a fresh training proposal with an eye on the future.

under the patronage of

ORGANISING COMMITTEE

• Sabrina Cipolletta (University of Padua, Italy)
• Chiara Centomo (Institute of Narrative Constructivism ICoNa SB, Padua, Italy)
• Gabriele Chiari (Institute of Narrative Constructivism ICoNa SB, Padua, Italy)
• Silvia Tomaino (University of Padua, Italy)
• David Winter (Hertfordshire University, UK)

SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE

• Gabriele Chiari (Institute of Narrative Constructivism ICoNa SB, Padua, Italy)
• Maria Armezzani (University of Padua, Italy)
• Richard C. Bell (Melbourne School of Psychological Sciences, Australia)
• Luis Botella (Ramon Llull University, Barcelona, Spain)
• Vivien Burr (University of Huddersfield, UK)
• Marco Castiglioni (University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy)
• Elena Faccio (University of Padua, Italy)
• Guillem Feixas (University of Barcelona, Spain)
• Robert A. Neimeyer (University of Memphis, USA)
• M. Cristina Ortu (Institute of Narrative Constructivism ICoNa SB, Padua, Italy)
• Harry Procter (University of Hertfordshire, UK)
• Jörn W. Scheer (University of Giessen, Germany)
• Dušan Stojnov (University of Belgrade, Serbia)
• Valeria Ugazio (University of Bergamo, Italy)
• Bill Warren (University of Newcastle, Australia)

IMPORTANT DATES

The deadline for the submission of abstracts was extended from February 15 to February 28, 2022

Special discount registration price until April 15, 2022