Keynote speakers

Below is a list with all the keynotes, which will take place during the congress.

Linköping University and Karolinska Institute, Sweden
- Internet and CBT. A combination for the future?

Beck Institute for Cognitive Behavior Therapy and University of Pennsylvania, U.S.A.
- The therapeutic relationship in CBT

University of Oxford, U.K.
- Developing and disseminating effective psychological therapies for anxiety disorders: Science, politics & economics.

VU University Amsterdam, The Netherlands
- Psychological treatment of depression and anxiety disorders: A comprehensive overview and future directions

Babeș-Bolyai University, Romania, Albert Ellis Institute and Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, U.S.A.
- Integrative and multimodal CBT

Albert Ellis Institute and St. John’s University, U.S.A.
- All thoughts are not created equal in CBT: Which cognitions do we target in psychotherapy

University of Oxford, U.K.
- Targeting recovery in persecutory delusions

Tübingen University, Germany
- Does cognitive psychotherapy of depression has a future?

University of Nevada, U.S.A.
- Psychological flexibility as a process of change in evidence-based psychotherapy

Boston University, U.S.A.
- Modern CBT

Vanderbilt University, U.S.A.
- Is cognitive behavior therapy enduring or are antidepressant medications iatrogenic

The American Institute for Cognitive Therapy, U.S.A.
- Emotional schemas and psychopathology

Yeshiva University, U.S.A.
- Are efforts to prevent anxiety and depression feasible and possible?

George Mason University, U.S.A.
- The looming vulnerability model of anxiety and the looming cognitive style

Leiden University, The Netherlands
- Experiential avoidance, rumination and worry as transdiagnostic risk factors for depressive and anxiety disorders

Marmara University, Turkey
- Criticisms and challenges to DSM IV and DSM 5 criteria for sexual disorders

University of Exeter, U.K.
- Targeting repetitive negative thought to better prevent and treat anxiety and depression