The ESSPD
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The European Society for the Study of Personality Disorders. Events:
-8th International ESSPD Congress, 7-9 September 2026
-8th International ESSPD Congress, 7-9 September 2026
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The ESSPD
@theesspd.bsky.social
· Sep 13
✨SAVE THE DATE! 📢 The 8th International ESSPD Congress! 🌍
📅7–9 September 2026 📍Lausanne, Switzerland
Transforming Futures: Integrating Lived Experience, Research, and Practice
📝Submissions open 1/12/2025 → lnkd.in/g-ad6Dx
🔔Mark your calendars, spread the word, and start preparing your abstracts!
📅7–9 September 2026 📍Lausanne, Switzerland
Transforming Futures: Integrating Lived Experience, Research, and Practice
📝Submissions open 1/12/2025 → lnkd.in/g-ad6Dx
🔔Mark your calendars, spread the word, and start preparing your abstracts!
🚨 Get Ready 🚨
Prof. Joost Hutsebaut invites all researchers, clinicians, and lived experience experts to start preparing their best work for the 8th International Congress on Borderline Personality Disorder and Allied Disorders.
📍 Congress: 7–9 September 2026 | Lausanne, Switzerland
Prof. Joost Hutsebaut invites all researchers, clinicians, and lived experience experts to start preparing their best work for the 8th International Congress on Borderline Personality Disorder and Allied Disorders.
📍 Congress: 7–9 September 2026 | Lausanne, Switzerland
November 23, 2025 at 5:25 PM
🚨 Get Ready 🚨
Prof. Joost Hutsebaut invites all researchers, clinicians, and lived experience experts to start preparing their best work for the 8th International Congress on Borderline Personality Disorder and Allied Disorders.
📍 Congress: 7–9 September 2026 | Lausanne, Switzerland
Prof. Joost Hutsebaut invites all researchers, clinicians, and lived experience experts to start preparing their best work for the 8th International Congress on Borderline Personality Disorder and Allied Disorders.
📍 Congress: 7–9 September 2026 | Lausanne, Switzerland
🌍✨ Borderline Personality Disorder Awareness Week – Day 6 ✨🌍
What’s happening in the brain during self-injury? 🧠
In today’s video 🎥, Prof. Christian Schmahl 🎓, Board member of the ESSPD, explains the neurobiology of non-suicidal self-injury.
#BPD #ESSPD #AwarenessWeek #ResearchToPractice
What’s happening in the brain during self-injury? 🧠
In today’s video 🎥, Prof. Christian Schmahl 🎓, Board member of the ESSPD, explains the neurobiology of non-suicidal self-injury.
#BPD #ESSPD #AwarenessWeek #ResearchToPractice
October 8, 2025 at 7:46 AM
🌍✨ Borderline Personality Disorder Awareness Week – Day 6 ✨🌍
What’s happening in the brain during self-injury? 🧠
In today’s video 🎥, Prof. Christian Schmahl 🎓, Board member of the ESSPD, explains the neurobiology of non-suicidal self-injury.
#BPD #ESSPD #AwarenessWeek #ResearchToPractice
What’s happening in the brain during self-injury? 🧠
In today’s video 🎥, Prof. Christian Schmahl 🎓, Board member of the ESSPD, explains the neurobiology of non-suicidal self-injury.
#BPD #ESSPD #AwarenessWeek #ResearchToPractice
✨ Borderline Personality Disorder Awareness Week ✨
We join the global community in raising awareness of #BPD 💙 Each day this week: expert videos 🎥
🎓#ESSPD, who explains what BPD is and invites you to #ESSPDCongress2026
We join the global community in raising awareness of #BPD 💙 Each day this week: expert videos 🎥
🎓#ESSPD, who explains what BPD is and invites you to #ESSPDCongress2026
October 2, 2025 at 3:00 PM
✨ Borderline Personality Disorder Awareness Week ✨
We join the global community in raising awareness of #BPD 💙 Each day this week: expert videos 🎥
🎓#ESSPD, who explains what BPD is and invites you to #ESSPDCongress2026
We join the global community in raising awareness of #BPD 💙 Each day this week: expert videos 🎥
🎓#ESSPD, who explains what BPD is and invites you to #ESSPDCongress2026
✨ Borderline Personality Disorder Awareness Week ✨
We join the global community in raising awareness of #BPD 💙 Each day this week: expert videos 🎥
Starting with Prof. Michaela Swales 🎓, President of #ESSPD, who explains what BPD is and invites you to #ESSPDCongress2026
We join the global community in raising awareness of #BPD 💙 Each day this week: expert videos 🎥
Starting with Prof. Michaela Swales 🎓, President of #ESSPD, who explains what BPD is and invites you to #ESSPDCongress2026
October 1, 2025 at 2:50 PM
✨ Borderline Personality Disorder Awareness Week ✨
We join the global community in raising awareness of #BPD 💙 Each day this week: expert videos 🎥
Starting with Prof. Michaela Swales 🎓, President of #ESSPD, who explains what BPD is and invites you to #ESSPDCongress2026
We join the global community in raising awareness of #BPD 💙 Each day this week: expert videos 🎥
Starting with Prof. Michaela Swales 🎓, President of #ESSPD, who explains what BPD is and invites you to #ESSPDCongress2026
✨SAVE THE DATE! 📢 The 8th International ESSPD Congress! 🌍
📅7–9 September 2026 📍Lausanne, Switzerland
Transforming Futures: Integrating Lived Experience, Research, and Practice
📝Submissions open 1/12/2025 → lnkd.in/g-ad6Dx
🔔Mark your calendars, spread the word, and start preparing your abstracts!
📅7–9 September 2026 📍Lausanne, Switzerland
Transforming Futures: Integrating Lived Experience, Research, and Practice
📝Submissions open 1/12/2025 → lnkd.in/g-ad6Dx
🔔Mark your calendars, spread the word, and start preparing your abstracts!
September 13, 2025 at 8:22 AM
✨SAVE THE DATE! 📢 The 8th International ESSPD Congress! 🌍
📅7–9 September 2026 📍Lausanne, Switzerland
Transforming Futures: Integrating Lived Experience, Research, and Practice
📝Submissions open 1/12/2025 → lnkd.in/g-ad6Dx
🔔Mark your calendars, spread the word, and start preparing your abstracts!
📅7–9 September 2026 📍Lausanne, Switzerland
Transforming Futures: Integrating Lived Experience, Research, and Practice
📝Submissions open 1/12/2025 → lnkd.in/g-ad6Dx
🔔Mark your calendars, spread the word, and start preparing your abstracts!
Another day, another bless at our #Summer #School
Our colleagues keep working, improving and sharing experiences, giving new light and perspectives to the increasing disease of #Personality #Disorders 👩🏼🏫🧠
Our colleagues keep working, improving and sharing experiences, giving new light and perspectives to the increasing disease of #Personality #Disorders 👩🏼🏫🧠
September 4, 2025 at 4:37 PM
Another day, another bless at our #Summer #School
Our colleagues keep working, improving and sharing experiences, giving new light and perspectives to the increasing disease of #Personality #Disorders 👩🏼🏫🧠
Our colleagues keep working, improving and sharing experiences, giving new light and perspectives to the increasing disease of #Personality #Disorders 👩🏼🏫🧠
Prof. Dr. Rasa Barkauskienė has just traced the complex trajectories of Personality functioning in #adolescence...
... And it left us speechless👏🏼👩🏼🏫
#ESSPD #Summer #School
... And it left us speechless👏🏼👩🏼🏫
#ESSPD #Summer #School
September 2, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Prof. Dr. Rasa Barkauskienė has just traced the complex trajectories of Personality functioning in #adolescence...
... And it left us speechless👏🏼👩🏼🏫
#ESSPD #Summer #School
... And it left us speechless👏🏼👩🏼🏫
#ESSPD #Summer #School
Which are the underlying mechanisms of #social #dysfunction in Personality Disorders?
Prof. Dr. Katja Bertsch just made a stellar presentation at the #Summer #School ✨🧠
#ESSPD
Prof. Dr. Katja Bertsch just made a stellar presentation at the #Summer #School ✨🧠
#ESSPD
September 2, 2025 at 2:46 PM
Which are the underlying mechanisms of #social #dysfunction in Personality Disorders?
Prof. Dr. Katja Bertsch just made a stellar presentation at the #Summer #School ✨🧠
#ESSPD
Prof. Dr. Katja Bertsch just made a stellar presentation at the #Summer #School ✨🧠
#ESSPD
✨ It’s happening! ✨The 4th ESSPD Summer School has officially started 🎓📍In the beautiful hills of Parma, wonderful knowledge exchange is about to begin... 🎓🌿
Our students and faculty are ready to begin! 🤝
Stay tuned for a week full of science, collaboration & unforgettable moments! 💫
Our students and faculty are ready to begin! 🤝
Stay tuned for a week full of science, collaboration & unforgettable moments! 💫
August 31, 2025 at 7:30 PM
✨ It’s happening! ✨The 4th ESSPD Summer School has officially started 🎓📍In the beautiful hills of Parma, wonderful knowledge exchange is about to begin... 🎓🌿
Our students and faculty are ready to begin! 🤝
Stay tuned for a week full of science, collaboration & unforgettable moments! 💫
Our students and faculty are ready to begin! 🤝
Stay tuned for a week full of science, collaboration & unforgettable moments! 💫
📸 Closing three powerful days at the ESSPD Clinical Skills event in Riga, Latvia 💪
A heartfelt 💛 thank you to our incredible local hosts Ieva Bite and Inta Zile for their outstanding organisation and warm hospitality 🫶 Thank you all for your energy, 🌟 openness, and dedication 🌿
A heartfelt 💛 thank you to our incredible local hosts Ieva Bite and Inta Zile for their outstanding organisation and warm hospitality 🫶 Thank you all for your energy, 🌟 openness, and dedication 🌿
June 8, 2025 at 2:25 PM
📸 Closing three powerful days at the ESSPD Clinical Skills event in Riga, Latvia 💪
A heartfelt 💛 thank you to our incredible local hosts Ieva Bite and Inta Zile for their outstanding organisation and warm hospitality 🫶 Thank you all for your energy, 🌟 openness, and dedication 🌿
A heartfelt 💛 thank you to our incredible local hosts Ieva Bite and Inta Zile for their outstanding organisation and warm hospitality 🫶 Thank you all for your energy, 🌟 openness, and dedication 🌿
🛠️ Therapy-interfering behaviours — how do we address them without rupturing the alliance?
Amy Gaglia Essletzbichler led a practical and reflective DBT workshop on managing the very behaviours that can derail therapy — from missed sessions to silence in the room 💬
Amy Gaglia Essletzbichler led a practical and reflective DBT workshop on managing the very behaviours that can derail therapy — from missed sessions to silence in the room 💬
June 8, 2025 at 2:23 PM
🛠️ Therapy-interfering behaviours — how do we address them without rupturing the alliance?
Amy Gaglia Essletzbichler led a practical and reflective DBT workshop on managing the very behaviours that can derail therapy — from missed sessions to silence in the room 💬
Amy Gaglia Essletzbichler led a practical and reflective DBT workshop on managing the very behaviours that can derail therapy — from missed sessions to silence in the room 💬
🔄 Role-play in action at the ESSPD Clinical Skills event in Riga!
In 🧠 Svenja Taubner’s workshop on Mentalizing Ruptures, participants explored how to navigate therapeutic alliance ruptures using techniques from Mentalization-Based Treatment (MBT).
In 🧠 Svenja Taubner’s workshop on Mentalizing Ruptures, participants explored how to navigate therapeutic alliance ruptures using techniques from Mentalization-Based Treatment (MBT).
June 8, 2025 at 2:22 PM
🔄 Role-play in action at the ESSPD Clinical Skills event in Riga!
In 🧠 Svenja Taubner’s workshop on Mentalizing Ruptures, participants explored how to navigate therapeutic alliance ruptures using techniques from Mentalization-Based Treatment (MBT).
In 🧠 Svenja Taubner’s workshop on Mentalizing Ruptures, participants explored how to navigate therapeutic alliance ruptures using techniques from Mentalization-Based Treatment (MBT).
🗣️ What happens when the therapeutic alliance breaks down?
During the GIT-PD workshop at the ESSPD Clinical Skills event in Riga, Prof. Joost Hutsebaut guided participants through strategies 🤝 to recognize and repair alliance ruptures in the treatment of personality disorders.
During the GIT-PD workshop at the ESSPD Clinical Skills event in Riga, Prof. Joost Hutsebaut guided participants through strategies 🤝 to recognize and repair alliance ruptures in the treatment of personality disorders.
June 8, 2025 at 2:21 PM
🗣️ What happens when the therapeutic alliance breaks down?
During the GIT-PD workshop at the ESSPD Clinical Skills event in Riga, Prof. Joost Hutsebaut guided participants through strategies 🤝 to recognize and repair alliance ruptures in the treatment of personality disorders.
During the GIT-PD workshop at the ESSPD Clinical Skills event in Riga, Prof. Joost Hutsebaut guided participants through strategies 🤝 to recognize and repair alliance ruptures in the treatment of personality disorders.
🔥 Live from the ESSPD Clinical Workshop in Riga!
Chris Korevaar supervising practical exercises in his workshop on Limited Reparenting in Schema Therapy: A practical way to confront patients in different phases of therapy
Chris Korevaar supervising practical exercises in his workshop on Limited Reparenting in Schema Therapy: A practical way to confront patients in different phases of therapy
June 6, 2025 at 2:26 PM
🔥 Live from the ESSPD Clinical Workshop in Riga!
Chris Korevaar supervising practical exercises in his workshop on Limited Reparenting in Schema Therapy: A practical way to confront patients in different phases of therapy
Chris Korevaar supervising practical exercises in his workshop on Limited Reparenting in Schema Therapy: A practical way to confront patients in different phases of therapy
🔥 Live from the ESSPD Clinical Workshop in Riga!
June 6, 2025 at 1:57 PM
🔥 Live from the ESSPD Clinical Workshop in Riga!
🔥 Live from the ESSPD Clinical Workshop in Riga!
🎤 Expert panel explores tough therapy challenges using real vignettes from attendees—showcasing unique insights across therapeutic models and what unites them. #ESSPD #BPD #Psychotherapy #TherapySkills
🎤 Expert panel explores tough therapy challenges using real vignettes from attendees—showcasing unique insights across therapeutic models and what unites them. #ESSPD #BPD #Psychotherapy #TherapySkills
June 6, 2025 at 2:12 AM
🔥 Live from the ESSPD Clinical Workshop in Riga!
🎤 Expert panel explores tough therapy challenges using real vignettes from attendees—showcasing unique insights across therapeutic models and what unites them. #ESSPD #BPD #Psychotherapy #TherapySkills
🎤 Expert panel explores tough therapy challenges using real vignettes from attendees—showcasing unique insights across therapeutic models and what unites them. #ESSPD #BPD #Psychotherapy #TherapySkills