Opening Ceremony / Cérémonie d’Ouverture

Plenary 1 — Adolescent Turbulence as a Developmental Window for Enhancing Mentalization

Chairman: Mario SPERANZA — Versailles, France

Carla SHARP — Houston, USA

Plenary 2 — Clinical Perspectives on Mentalizing Trauma: a Research-Based Reflection

Chairman: Mario SPERANZA — Versailles, France

Karin ENSINK — Québec, Canada

Plenary 3 — Briser le cycle : Mentaliser le trauma pour intercepter la transmission intergénérationnelle de la maltraitance

Chairman: Martin DEBBANÉ — Geneva, Switzerland

Nicolas BERTHELOT — Québec, Canada

Plenary 4 — From Turbulence to Trajectory: Mentalizing Pathways in MBT-C for Autism

Chairman: Martin DEBBANÉ — Geneva, Switzerland

Norka MALBERG — Barcelona, Spain

Workshop 1 — In a Dark Time the Eye Begins to See: Building Trust and Social Communication for Our New Dark Ages

Dickon BEVINGTON — London, UK · Peter FUGGLE — London, UK

Clinical Workshop 4 — The Neuroscience of Mentalizing: Contemporary Methods and Models

Martin DEBBANÉ — Geneva, Switzerland · Pascal VRTICKA — Colchester, UK · David RUDRAUF — Paris, France

Plenary 5 — Mentalizing the unmentalized in the turbulent world of antisocial personality

Chair: Dawn BALES

Anthony BATEMAN — London, UK

Workshop 7 — Trauma-Focused Mentalization-Based Treatment (MBT-TF): Insights from Clinical Implementation and Research

Chair: Anthony Bateman — London, UK

Speakers: Maaike Smits, Jasmijn De Vos, Tobias Nolte, Eva Rüfenacht — Geneva, Switzerland

Workshop 10 — The Capacity to Foster Epistemic Trust: Lessons from Parents, Therapists, and Patients

Alessandro TALIA — Lausanne, Switzerland · Chloe CAMPBELL — London, UK · Sebastian SIMONSEN — Copenhagen, Denmark · Jordan BATE — New York, USA

Plenary 6 — Mentalizing in Times of Social Media, Text-Based and AI-Supported Therapy: First Empirical Findings

Chairman: Mario SPERANZA — Versailles

Patrick LUYTEN — Leuven, Belgium

Plenary 7 — Social Trauma: Intervention and Prevention from the Mentalizing Perspective

Chairman: Mario SPERANZA — Versailles

Svenja TAUBNER — Heidelberg, Germany

Plenary 8 — Mentalizing and Society: The Nature and Nurture of ‘Truth’

Chairman: Martin DEBBANÉ — Geneva, Switzerland

Peter FONAGY — London, UK

Closing ceremony with Anthony BATEMAN and Peter FONAGY — The past, present, and future of mentalizing in a turbulent world

Chairman: Martin DEBBANÉ — Geneva, Switzerland