⏳ ESSPD Congress 2026 – Submission Deadline Approaching!
About one week to go before the submission portal closes on 9 March.
Prof. Christian Schmahl and the ESSPD Board remind us to submit our best work and contribute to advancing personality disorder research and clinical practice.
#ESSPD
🌍✨ 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
✨ 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
On our final day all our groups presented their exceptional research works👩🏼🏫...
... And we couldn't be more proud of all of them!
We wait all of you next year for another overwhelming #ESSPD #Summer #School 🧠
Prof. Dr. Rasa Barkauskienė has just traced the complex trajectories of Personality functioning in #adolescence...
... 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
#Summer #School had the most beautiful moment 💫 with Prof. Dr. Katja Bertsch and her poignant sunset talk in an exclusive cellar🗣️
#ESSPD
Our exceptional colleagues did a fabulous job on their first day at our #Summer #School 👩🏼🏫
We explored and dissected many aspects of #PDs...
... And we can't wait for what comes next tomorrow❕
#ESSPD
🔥 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
🔥 Live from Riga! At the #ESSPD #ClinicalWorkshop, Anna Babl (Leiden Univ) dives into alliance ruptures & repair.
She highlights task renegotiation & metacommunication as key tools for resolution—vital for improving clinical outcomes. #ESSPD #BPD #psychotherapy
Therapy ruptures are inevitable—repair is possible.
🗣️Join Chris Korevaar for a hands-on Schema Therapy workshop on spotting rupture signs, using modes, empathic confrontation, and chair work🪑 to rebuild trust through limited reparenting.
#esspd #workshop #schematherapy #psychotherapy
🧠 Workshop w/ Dr. Tennyson Lee:
The Contribution of Transference-Focused Therapy in Anticipating, Planning for & Managing Alliance Ruptures in the Treatment of Personality Disorder
📅 June 6–7 | 📍 Riga, Univ. of Latvia
🔗 www.esspd.eu/workshops/
#ESSPD #psychotherapy #workshop #riga #latvia
Learn about developmental perspectives on personality pathology from Rasa Barkauskiené (Vilnius University, Lithuania), one of the #keynote speakers of the 4th #ESSPD Summer School in Parma!
Deadline for application tomorrow 🚨🚨
www.esspd.eu/summer-school/
Do you want to know something about intimacy in personality disorders?
Professor Chiara De Panfilis surely can answer your questions!
She is one of our #keynote speakers for the 4th edition of the #ESSPD Summer School in Parma. Enrole into Summer School, #applications are open until February 1st!
Exciting news!🎉Joost Hutsebaut keynote speaker at the ESSPD #SummerSchool on Investigating Psychosocial Dysfunction in PD. His work focuses on personality pathology assessment within the #AlternativeModelforPersonalityDisorders Don't miss this opportunity! #ESSPD #PersonalityDisorders
