Exceptional public conference of Leslie Greenberg - 6 juillet 2025

Exceptional Public Conference

We are pleased to invite you, in the context of the Swiss National Science Foundation Scientific Workshop «Change in Emotion in Psychotherapy», to the following special event :

Professor Leslie Greenberg, PhD will offer a trans-diagnostic, trans-theoretical perspective on working with emotion based on three ideas: Emotion is central in psychological dysfunction; Both acceptance and change of emotions are important in cure of emotional disorder; Work on transforming the underlying emotional cause of psychological disease is important for enduring change and differs from modification of symptoms and provision of coping skills. The speaker will propose changing emotion with emotion as a basic principle of emotional change and that one of the best ways to transform maladaptive amygdala-based fear, sadness and shame is with other adaptive emotions.

Dimanche 6 juillet de 18h00 à 19h00

Auditoire César-Roux – BH08 – CHUV Bâtiment hospitalier – 1011 Lausanne

Entrée libre, en présentiel ou via Webex dont le lien figure dans le flyer, ainsi que d'autres informations

This exceptional public conference is co-organized by the

University Institute of Psychotherapy at the Department of Psychiatry-CHUV,

University of Lausanne, Switzerland

and the Swiss Institute of Emotion-Focused Therapy, Switzerland