09.00 h

Conference Opening
Marianne Leuzinger-Bohleber, SFI
Martin Hautzinger, Uni Tübingen
Angelika Ramshorn-Privitera, FPI

I. EMPIRICAL STUDIES ON DEPRESSION

Chair: Rolf Sandell, Stockholm

09.15 h

OPENING LECTURE
Emotion and cognition - The Zurich depression study
Heinz Böker, Zurich
-> Video

10.00 h

Discussion
Ulrich Bahrke, SFI Frankfurt

10.30 h

Coffee Break

11.00 h

The Tavistock Depression Study
Felicitas Rost, London
-> Video

11.45 h

Discussion
Alexa Negele, SFI Frankfurt

12.15 h

The New York Depression Study
Steven Roose, New York
-> Video

13.00 h

Discussion
Tamara Fischmann, SFI Frankfurt

13.30 h

Lunch Break

14.30 h

Treatment of depressed patients in the „Praxisstudie analytische Langzeittherapie“ (PAL-Studie)
Wolfram Keller, Tilman Grande, Thorsten  Jacobsen, Sabine Stehle, Gerd Rudolf, Berlin
-> Video

15.15 h

Discussion
Yasaman Soltani, SFI Frankfurt

15.45 h

Coffee Break

Chair: Werner Bohleber, Frankfurt

16.15 h

Are psychoanalysis and cognitive behavioral treatments really comparable?
Gerhard Schneider, Mannheim

17.00 - 18.00 h

General discussion with main speakers
Introduction: Rolf Sandell
-> Video

II. THE LAC DEPRESSION STUDY: SCHOOLS IN DIALOGUE

Chair: Anne Springer, DGPT

09.00 h

Context, design and aims of the LAC Study
Manfred Beutel, Mainz
-> Video

09.45 h

Psychoanalytic treatments of chronic depressed patients
Marianne Leuzinger-Bohleber, SFI Frankfurt
-> Video 

10.30 h

Coffee Break

Chair: Ulrich Stangier, Frankfurt

11.00 h

Cognitive behavioral theory of chronic depressed patients
Martin Hautzinger, Tübingen
-> Video

11.45 h

Actual position and describing samples
Basil Abou El-Komboz, Bernhard Rüger, Munich

12.30 h

Discussion of the LAC Study
Steven Roose, New York
-> Video

13.00 h

Lunch Break

14.00 - 17.45 h

Parallel Panels

PANEL IA
Clinical contributions of LAC psychoanalysts

Part 1:
Suicidal tendency and depression: a case study
Christa Sturmfels, Ingeborg Goebel-Ahnert

Part 2:
Psychic retreat and narcissistic personality disorder - theoretical concepts regarding chronic depression
Rosemarie Kennel, Heike Westenberger-Breuer

Panel IB
Clinical contributions of LAC psychoanalysts

Part 1:
New approaches in chronic depression with case analysis
Klara Kilber-Brüssow, Felicitas Weis

Part 2:
Gender and depression
Ilka Quindeau, Erwin Sturm

PANEL II
Clinical contributions of LAC cognitive behavioural therapists
Jennifer Stanke, Argyroula Koutala

PANEL III
Operationalised psychodynamic diagnostics (OPD) in the LAC study
Ulrich Bahrke, Rosalba Maccarrone Erhardt

PANEL IV
a) Regression – a therapeutic option in the treatment of depression between wish-fulfillment and suicide prevention
Elisabeth Rohrbach, Marburg, Martin Stokowy, Cologne

b) Treating chronic depressed patient in a day care clinic
Wolfgang Merkle, Frankfurt

c) Clinical aspects of the Tavistock Depression Study
Rachel Thomas, London

PANEL V
a) Cultural dimensions of depression
Rolf Haubl, SFI Frankfurt
-> Video

b) Chronic depression of elderly patients
Reinhard Lindner, Hamburg
-> Video

18.15 h

OPEN FOR PUBLIC AUDIENCE
Psychoanalytical aspects concerning melancholia: the film Vertigo (Hitchcock)
Ralf Zwiebel, Kassel

III. CLINICAL AND CONCEPTUAL PERSPECTIVES ON TREATING CHRONIC DEPRESSED PATIENTS

09.00 h

Chair: Martin Teising, DPV Berlin

Psychoanalysis of chronic depression
Hugo Bleichmar, Madrid
-> Video

09.45 h

Coffee Break

10.30 h

Suicidality
Georg Fiedler, Hamburg
-> Audio only

11.00 h

Treatment results of depressed women in the Berlin Centre of the STOP-D Study
Wolfram Keller, Berlin, Matthias Franz, Düsseldorf

11.45 h

Depression and culture
Pablo Cuevas Corono, Mexico City
-> Video

12.30 h

Final Panel
with main speakers

13.00 h

Farewell
Marianne Leuzinger-Bohleber, SFI
Rolf Haubl, SFI