Programme for ICATA 2023

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Thursday June 15th

12.00 - 13.00 Registration
13.00 - 13.10 Welcome to the Conference 
13.10 - 14.20 Plenary session: What is the underlying theory of CAT? From Semiotic Object Relations Theory (SORT) to metaphor
14.20 - 14.50 Coffee break
14.50 - 15.35 Plenary session: Finland, Happiness, Coconuts and Peaches 
15.35 - 16.05 In among our CATs: Interactive meeting and greeting
 
16.30 - 18.30 Welcoming ceremony with drinks and small buffet

Friday June 16th

09.00 - 09.30 Plenary session: A body-oriented journey
09.30 - 10.00 Plenary session: Ghosts in Our National Psyches
10.00 - 10.30 Plenary session: Living with the Climate Ecological Emergency
10.30 - 11.00 Coffee break
11.00 - 12.30 Parallell sessions
12.30 - 13.30 Lunch
13.30 - 14.15 Plenary session: The vulnerability of memory
14.15 - 15.00 Plenary session: Back to the Future: Tracing the story of CAT
15.00 - 15.30 Coffee
15.30 - 17.00 Parallell sessions
 
19.00 - 24.00 Gala dinner at Kulosaaren kasino

Saturday June 17th

09.00 - 09.45 Plenary session: CAT competence: Culturally relative construct, political lever or useful training tool (or all three?)
09.45 - 10.30 Plenary session: Processes of Emotional Change - a psychotherapy reseach perspective
10.30 - 11.00 Coffee break
11.00 - 12.30 Parallell sessions
12.30 - 14.00 Lunch 
13.15 - 14.00 ICATA - Annual General Meeting
14.00 - 14.30 Plenary session: CAT and Gender Dysphoria
14.30 - 15.00 Plenary session: CAT-informed crisis work in early intervention for BPD-HYPE
15.00 - 15.30 Plenary session: The evolving of the CAT model, its current status and future challenges
15.30 - 16.30 Integrating and ending

We reserve the right to make changes in the programme.