January 24, 2026, 14:00 - 17:45 CET

featuring Keynote Speech by Erik Mansager: “Successive Simultaneity” – Adler and Contemporary Psychotherapy & Parallel Sessions by IAIP Sections

Section Psychotherapy – Children and adolescents

New Languages and New Techniques in Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy: Adlerian Theory Facing the Challenges of Our Time by Gian Sandro Lerda (Società Italiana di Psicologia Individuale SIPI)

Section Psychotherapy – Adults

Divergent Lenses, Shared Depths: An Adlerian Exploration of Dreams and the Unconscious by Victoria Armet (Asociación Española de Psicología Adleriana; AEPA) (presenter); Nestor Kapusta (Österreichischer Verein für Individualpsychologie; ÖVIP) (discussant), Gerhard Baumer (ICASSI) (discussant).

Section Counseling

Presentation 1 – Counseling: Definition, Interpretation, and Practice in Different Countries by Ursula Oberst, Ph.D. (Asociación Española de Psicología Adleriana; AEPA) & Giovanni De Santis (SIPI)

Presentation 2 – Overcoming Inferiority Feelings Caused by Disability through Encouragement by Takehiro Nagata (Japanese Society of Adlerian Psychology) & Hironori Nakajima (Japanese Society of Adlerian Psychology):

Section Pedagogics and Education

Adlerian Principles for Today: Understanding and Meeting the Needs of Parents and Teachers in a Changing World by Christelle Schläpfer (Swiss Association for Individual Psychology, SGIPA):

Section Science – Theory and Research

A Survey of Adlerian Clinical Trainings by Karen John (Adlerian Society Institute for Individual Psychology; ASIIP) & Jon Sperry (North American Society for Adlerian Psychology; NASAP)

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