June 12
9:30-9.45 Opening Statement
João Salgado: In search of better theories in psychology and psychotherapy.
9.45-10.30 Keynote 1: Jaan Valsiner (Aalborg University, Denmark)br/>Title: The role of theory in psychotherapy: What can developmental cultural psychology contribute?
Discussion
10.30-11.00 Break
11:00-11.45 Keynote 2: Sergio Salvatore (University of Salento, Italy)
Title: The theory that psychotherapy needs in the perspective of a semiotic-dynamic psychology.
Discussion
11.45-12.30 Keynote 3: William B. Stiles (Miami University, Ohio, USA, & Appalachian State University, North Carolina, USA )
What changes in psychotherapy and Why: An Assimilation Model perspective.
Discussion
12.30-13.00 Keynote 4: João Salgado (ISMAI, Portugal)
Title: Integrating dialogical, semiotic, and developmental perspectives: Searching for a complex theory of human change processes.
13:00-14.30 Break
14:30-15.30 Panel: Time, psychotherapy and psychopathology
Luís Fernandes (Faculdade de Psicologia e Ciências da Educação da Universidade do Porto, Portugal).
Title: “Breves dias têm cem anos”: Reflexão sobre o tempo no atual sistema da ciência.
Jesús Garcia Martinez (Universidad de Sevilla,
España)
Title: Desde la estructura a la dinámica: Una propuesta de mecanismos de cambio psicoterapéutico basado en el modelo de tres niveles de la Personalidad de McAdams.
Paulo Jesus (Portucalense University, Portugal).
Title: The poetics of time and selfhood between Jaspers and Binswanger.
15.30-16:00 Break and Posters session
16:00-18.00 Round table: What theory for psychotherapy?
Searching for the founding blocks of a developmental science applied to psychotherapy.
Luís Fernandes, Jesús Garcia Martinez, Paulo Jesus, João Salgado, William B. Stiles, Jaan Valsiner & Maria Lyra (Federal University of Pernambuco, Brazil)
18.00-18.15 Closing ceremony