Conference 2021

IV EDITION

Conference themes

The fourth International Conference on Eating Disorders on the theme: ‘Recovery and Discharge. Pathways to Discontinuation of Treatment.’ was preceded in 2020 by two webinars and held on 19 and 20 November 2021 both online and in-person at the Fondazione MAST Auditorium in Bologna.

The two study days focused on the concept of recovery as a process supported by the integrated work of the healthcare team professionals and supported by the network of care. This interconnection guarantees therapeutic continuity, patient social reintegration and relapse prevention.
Thanks to discussion between authoritative national and international professionals, issues and criteria linked to therapeutic success and failure were examined in depth, observing the interconnection between diagnostic severity, psychiatric comorbidity and the patient’s social-family context from a multidisciplinary perspective.

Speakers

Psychiatrist, Full Professor of Psychiatry, University of Turin; Director of the Eating Disorder
Regional Centre, University Hospital, Città della Salute e della Scienza, Turin

Residenza Gruber and Centro Gruber, Bologna

Psychiatrist and Internal Medicine Physician, Associate Professor of Psychiatry, University
of Bologna

Professional Educator, Residenza Gruber, Bologna

Psychologist, Psychotherapist, Centro Gruber, Bologna

Child, family and adult psychotherapist trained at the Tavistock Clinic, London; teacher of
Tavistock MA in Centro Studi Martha Harris, Florence; former Head of the Psychotherapy
Services at Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children and former Consultant Psychotherapist
at Ellern Mede Centre for Eating Disorders, London

Psychoanalyst, President of “Telemaco di Jonas”, Milan

Psychoanalyst, founder of Jonas, Center for Clinical Psychoanalysis for New Symptoms; Scientific Consultant and Supervisor for the Gruber Residence, Bologna

Professional Educator, Head of Day Centre, Residenza Gruber, Bologna

Psychologist Psychotherapist, Associate Professor of Clinical Psychology, University of Bologna

MD, Specialist in Paediatrics and Nutritional Science, Medical Director of Centro Gruber,
Bologna

Psychologist and Psychotherapist, Associate Professor of Dynamic Psychology, University of Bergamo; Director of the Milan Center for Family Therapy

Psychiatrist and Psychoanalyst, Full Professor of Dynamic Psychology, Sapienza University in Rome; Senior Research Fellow at the Sapienza School for Advanced Studies and President of the SPR-IAG (Society for Psychotherapy Research – Italian Area Group)

Full Professor of Epistemology of Qualitative Research, University of Verona

Researcher in Clinical Psychology at the Department of Philosophy, Social Human and Educational Sciences, University of Perugia

Psychiatrist and Psychoanalyst, Medical Director of Residenza Gruber, Bologna

Associate Professor of Psychology of Eating Disorders, University College London; Clinical
Lead for Adult Eating Disorders, North East London NHS Foundation Trust, London

Psychiatrist, Full Professor of Psychiatry, University of Brescia; Director Mental Health
Department, Brescia Hospital

MD, Specialist in Internal Medicine, Psychosomatics and Psychotherapy; Full Professor of
Medicine and Head Department of Psychosomatic Medicine and Psychotherapy, University
Hospital, Tübingen; Director of the Tübingen Center of Excellence for Eating Disorders
(KOMET), Vice Dean of the Medical Faculty