Embodiment and ecology in the actual sufferings of everyday life

Thomas Fuchs – Professor of Philosophy and Psychiatry at the University of Heidelberg (chair formerly held by Karl Jaspers) and president of the German Society for Phenomenological Anthropology, Psychiatry and Psychotherapy (DGAP). His field of research ranges from phenomenology to psychopathology, from embodied and enactive cognitive science to interactive concepts of social cognition. He has coordinated major research projects, including the European Research Training Network Towards an Embodied Science of Intersubjectivity (Tesis, 2011-2016).

Scott D. Churchill – Professor of psychology at the University of Dallas, past president of the Society for Humanistic Psychology (Division 32), editor-in-chief of The Humanistic Psychologist(APA). Member of the executive board for APA’s Division of Quantitative and Qualitative Research (Div. 5). Chair of the Society for Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology’s (Division 24) Task Force on the editorial boards of Human Studies, Journal of Phenomenological Psychology, Qualitative Psychology, Journal of Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology, Qualitative Research in Psychology, Encyclopaideia: Journal of Phenomenology and Education, International Journal of Qualitative Studies on Health and Well-being, and The Janus Head.

Pietro Andrea Cavaleri – Trainer at the School of Specialisation in Psychotherapy of the Istituto di Gestalt HCC Italy. He has taught at the University of Palermo, LUMSA and the Faculty of Education ‘Auxilium’. He was head psychologist at the Caltanissetta (Italy) Health Service. His books include La profondità della superficie (FrancoAngeli, 2003). He edited Gestalt psychotherapy and neuroscience (FrancoAngeli, 2013) and, together with M. Spagnuolo Lobb, Psychopathology of the Situation in Gestalt Therapy (Routledge, 2023).

Santo Di Nuovo – Graduate in Philosophy and Psychology, he is Professor Emeritus of Psychology at the University of Catania (Italy), and President of the Italian Psychology Association and the Italian Network of Psychology Associations (INPA). He is co-editor of the international journal Life Span and Disability. Since 1974, he has produced over 350 publications, including 35 books. Of the articles, 80 have been published in international scientific journals or volumes. His main scientific interest lies in research methodology and assessment techniques and procedures. He has been involved in numerous researches on outcome and process evaluation of psychotherapy. He received the Award of the Italian-American Association of Psychology (IAPS) as Distinguished Italian Psychologist in 2017.

Giancarlo Pintus – Psychologist, Psychotherapist, International Trainer of the Istituto di Gestalt HCC Italy. Specialised at the “National School on Addiction” and carried out research activities at the Psychiatric Clinic of the University of Pisa in a multicentre study on treatment adherence, psychopathological situation and quality of life of opiate-dependent patients. He has carried out clinical activities at the Ser.T. of ASP n. 4 in Enna (Italy) and has participated in projects for the prevention and rehabilitation of drug addicts. A member of the Italian Society of Addiction, he has published articles and contributions on addiction in Italy and abroad. He is co-editor of a book on addiction and Gestalt Psychotherapy.

Valeria Rubino – Psychiatrist and psychotherapist, specialised in Gestalt psychotherapy, trained at the Istituto di Gestalt HCC. She attended the four-year second-level Master’s degree course in post-rationalist cognitive psychotherapy. She has carried out research activities at the neuroscience group of the Policlinic of the University of Bari dealing with functional brain imaging. She works at the Department of Mental Health of the ASP of Siracusa (Italy). For several years, she was involved in rehabilitation in residential facilities for psychiatric patients. She collaborates as a trainer with the Istituto di Gestalt HCC Italy.

Margherita Spagnuolo Lobb – Psychotherapist and researcher, international trainer, Director of the Istituto di Gestalt HCC Italy (Syracuse, Palermo and Milan). In her clinical work, she has hermeneutically developed the principles of Gestalt therapy into a field-oriented, phenomenological and aesthetic approach. Her book The Now-for-Next in Psychotherapy is available in 11 languages. With Pietro Cavaleri, she has recently edited the book Psychopathology of the Situation in Gestalt Therapy: A Field Oriented Approach, published by Routledge in the Gestalt Therapy Book Series. She received the Lifelong Achievement Award from the Association for the Advancement of Gestalt Therapy – AAGT (Toronto, Canada, August 2018).

Ekkehard Tenschert – Psychotherapist, coach, supervisor and councellor, BA MSc. He works in private practice in Vienna / Austria, is trainer and supervisior for FSIG/ ÖAGG and coordinator of the advanced trainig program gestalttherapy with infants, children, adolescents and their surroundings, as well as trainer for Institutul de Gestalt terapie din Bucuresti. He is member and accredited supervisor of the EAGT. Advanced trainings in gestalttherapy with children and adolescents (DUK), gestalt-supervison (Istituto di Gestalt), and phenomenology and gestalt (Dan Bloom and Thomas Fuchs). He has published articles in German on gestaltherapy with children and adolescents, and therapeutic responsibilities, the latest Ebenen therapeutischer Verantwortung – multiple Perspektiven in einer komplexen Welt (2022).