Friday 23rd May, 2014
0900 – 09.30 Registration
09.30 – 09.40 Welcome by Rev Jimmy Bonnici - Rector of the Archbishop’s Seminary
09.40 - 09.50 Welcome by co-chairs of the Programme committee Mr. Laner Cassar & Dott. Alberto Passerini
09.50 – 10.00 Welcome Speech by H.E. Ms. Marie. Louise Coleiro-Preca -
President of the Republic of Malta.
Session 1
Theme: Waking Dream Therapy in the historical psychotherapeutic context of the twentieth century.
10.05 – 10.40 Keynote Speech: Dr. Gunther Langwieler (DGAP, Germany)
Psychiatrist & Jungian Analyst, President of the CG.Jung Society Berlin.
The Discovery of the World Inside: The Imaginations of Carl-Gustav Jung: Sources and Clinical Practise of Active Imagination
10.40 – 11.15 Mr. Laner Cassar (MDPA, Malta)
Clinical Psychologist & Psychotherapist, President of MDPA
& Dott.ssa Sara Zoja (Italy) Clinical Psychologist & Jungian Psychotherapist
From Mnemosyme to Clio: Tracing the historical connections between the Jungian and Desoillian psychotherapeutic movements.
11.15 – 11.25 Coffee Break
11.25 – 12.05 Dr. Giovanni Sorge (ETH, Switzerland)
Historian of Jungian Psychoanalysis, Researcher at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich ( ETH University).
Eliade, Jung and the technique of the Rêve-éveillé-dirigé
12.05 – 12.35 Mme. Nicole Fabre (G.I.R.EP, France)
Psychoanalyst, ex-President of G.I.R.E.P
Robert Desoille – Personal Recollections.
12.35 - 13. 45 Lunch Break
Session 2
Theme: Waking Dream Therapy integrating different psychotherapeutic approaches – Humanistic, Psychoanalytic, Existential
13.45 – 14.25 Dr Hector Anastasia ( SUED, Uruguay)
Psychiatrist, Psychologist, Psychotherapist, President of SUED
Psychoactivation of M.Berta and Symbolic Imagination: An Experimental way to Trascendence
14.25 – 15.05 Dr Jean Marie Sinety (GIREP, France)
Psychiatrist, Psychoanalyst, President of G.I.R.E.P
Rever pour aller mieux: la poetique de la cure par la procedure imaginative.
15.05 - 15.45 Dr. Oleg Paliakow (Institut Français d'Hypnose - Paris, France)
Psychologist & Psychotherapist, Director of CEREPHE (Centre d'Etude du Rêve Eveillé en Psycho-Hypnothérapie Existentielle, France)
Du rêve éveillé dirigé de Desoille au rêve éveillé existentiel.
15.45 – 16.15 Coffee Break
Session 3:
Theme: More variants of waking dream therapy: body oriented and transpersonal
16.15 – 16.50 Dr Philip Grossbois (France)
Psychologist specialised in Psychotherapy, Institut de Psychologie et Sociologie Appliquées , Université Catholique de L'Ouest
Imaginary body experience and waking dream in psychotherapy
16.50 – 17.30 Dr. Gerald Epstein (American Institute for Mental Imagery, U.S.A)
Psychiatrist, Director of The American Institute for Mental Imagery, New York, Adjunct Professor in Psychiatry at Mount Sinai University and School of Medicine NYC.
The Experience of Waking Dream in Psychotherapy.
17.30 – 17.45 Conclusion
20.00 Opening of Exhibition on Robert Desoille and Carmelite Mystics at the Carmelite Priory, Mdina, Old Capital City – By invitation.
Saturday 24th May, 2014
Breakfast Talk:
08.45-09.15 Professor Rebecca Coleman Curtis Ph.D (W.W.A., New York)
Professor of Psychology, Adelphi University & Faculty and Supervisor,
William Alanson White Institute, New York City.
The Power of “Becoming” in the Present the Various People and Elements in the Dream.
09.30 – 09:40 Welcome
Session 1
Theme: Clinical research in waking dream therapy
09.40 – 10.25 Dott. Alberto Passerini (S.I.S.P.I, Italy)
Psychiatrist and Psychoanalytic Psychotherapist, President of S.I.S.P.I
Esperienza Immaginativa: Psicoanalisi, Psicoterapia, Counseling e Pedagogia. Applicazioni individuali e di gruppo.
10.25 – 11.10 Professor Flavia Valtorta (S.I.S.P.I, Italy)
Full professor, San Raffaele University School of Medicine and Co-director, Division of Neuroscience of the San Raffaele Scientific Institute, Psychotherapist
Imaginative experience: to recall...to transform...to cure.
11.10 – 11.25 Coffee Break
11.25 – 12.00 Dr. Kristina BRODE (EFPP, GERMANY)
Psychosynthersis-Trainer and Psychotherapist, Jungian Art Therapy, Board member of European Federation for Psychosynthesis Psychotherapy
Psychosynthesis and Guided Imagery: Outer and inner pictures evoking healing in cancer aftercare.
12.00 – 13.20 Lunch Break
Session 2
Theme: Waking Dreams: Of heights and mystic visions.
13.20 – 14.05 Ms. Christiane Sullivan (MDPA, Malta)
Health Psychologist and Psychotherapist (EAP)
Jung’s ‘Desoillian’ heights: his 1944 Kabbalistic vision.
14.05 – 14.40 Dott.ssa Valeria Chiore (University of Naples, Italy)
Philosopher, Universita’ degli Studi di Napoli
Desoille e Bachelard, verso una tropologia della mente.
14.40 – 15.25 Fr. Charlo Camilleri (O.Carm, Malta)
Lecturer at the University of Malta & Director of the Carmelite Institute Malta
Mental prayer, dreams and visions. Forms of Dream Therapy? A comparative exercise
15.25 – 15.55 Coffee Break
Session 3
Theme: Waking dreams therapy, attachment and the therapeutic relationship.
15.55 – 16.40 Dr. Jean Marc Henriot (AIRE, France)
Psychologist & Psychoanalyst, Director of A.I.R.E.
Le Transfert négatif en Psychanalyse Rêve Eveillé
16.40 – 17.20 Dott.ssa M. B. Biaggi (Institute Biagi, Brasil)
Psychologist & Psychoanalyst, President of Biaggi Institute
Passengers in transit, malfunction in the preconscious: Enactment and Imaginative Experience.
17.20 - 17.45 Concluding Speech – Dr Hector Anastasia (President of SUED, Uruguay)
Between 18.00 hrs and 20.00 hrs there will be a Round Table for guest speakers to discuss the setting up of the International Association of Waking Dream Therapy.
On Friday 23rd May, 2014 - Opening of the exhibition by Mr. Laurent Croset, French Counselor of the French Embassy of Malta on ‘Robert Desoille in dialogue with the Carmelite Mysticism’ at the Carmelite Priory in Mdina.
P.S. The small photos appearing on top of this page are of some of Robert Desoille's late first- generation disciples, including Dr. Jean Guilhot (France); Prof. Leon Delpech (France); Dr. Jacques Levine (France); Andre Virel (France); Leopoldo Rigo (Italy); Prof. Mario Berta (Uruguay); Dr. Celes Carcamo (Argentina); Mme. Colette Aboulker-Muscat (Algeria/Israel). Luckily, there are still a handful of first-generation disciples who are still alive including Dr. Jacques Launay (France); Madame Nicole Fabre (France); Dr. Richard Bevand (Switzerland) and Jean-Nadal (France).