THE WORLD’S LARGEST PSYCHOTHERAPY GATHERING

The Evolution of Psychotherapy Conference, which is considered the most important conference in the history of psychotherapy, was first organized in 1985 as a celebration of the 100th birthday of psychotherapy by Jeffrey Zeig, Ph.D., Director and Founder of The Milton H. Erickson Foundation. The Milton H. Erikson Foundation is mainly working on training health and mental health professionals worldwide. The biggest conference this foundation organizes is The Evolution of Psychotherapy Conference, which is acknowledged by the most successful specialists and attracts mental health professionals from all over the world. The first faculty of The Evolution of Psychotherapy Conference in 1985 included such well-known names as Carl Rogers, Albert Ellis, Carl Jung, Alfred Adler, Jay Haley, James Masterson, and Virginia Satir. According to Jeffrey Zeig, earlier conferences were more academic with printed proceedings, while today the conference has evolved to become more clinical, organized around practice oriented workshops and interactive events. The faculty of The Evolution of Psychotherapy Conference in 2009 included many famous and influential people in the field of psychotherapy. Albert Bandura, David Marlow, Aaron Beck, Salvador Minuchin, Claudia Black, Deepak Chopra, Otto F. Kernberg, Cloe Madanes, Donald Meichenbaum, Christine A.Padesky, Robert Sapolsky, Irvin Yalom and many others were members of the honorable faculty who took part in the 2009 conference. The conference program consisted of a great number of workshops, point/counter-points, keynote speakers, clinical demonstrations, topical panels, conversation hours, dialogues, guest addresses, master classes and book signings.