The research project "The Therapeutic Game" (PI Stefan Rinner) funded by
the Fritz Thyssen Foundation and based at the Department of Philosophy
at the University of Duisburg-Essen is organising an interdisciplinary
two-day online conference on questions regarding language and its use in
psychotherapeutic settings, to be held via Zoom on May 8 and 9 2025. Our
goal is to bring together researchers interested in this topic from
different fields, including philosophy, linguistics, psychology,
psychiatry, communication studies, and sociology.
To register please write an email with the subject “registration” to language.of.psychotherapy@gmail.com – you will receive an automated email with all required information, including the zoom login.
Programme
May 8 2025
9.30-10.00 (GMT+2)
Stefan Rinner (University of Duisburg-Essen)
The Therapeutic Game
10.10-10.40
Jasmin Spiegel (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
Emotional significant moments in psychotherapy - A nonverbal perspective
10.50-11.20
Agnieszka Lyons (Queen Mary University of London)
A polymedia approach to therapeutic listening: narrative across modes and media
11.40-12.10
Arlind Fazliu (University of Arizona)
Speaking Their Language: Mirroring and Reformulating for Bipolar Psychotherapy
12.20-12.50
Urte Laukaityte (Aarhus University)
On the Relationship between Psychotherapy and Placebo
14-14.30
Tami Yair (Beit Berl College)
Therapeutic Jargon in the Discourse of Incarcerated Offenders and Those in Rehabilitation in Israel
14.40-15.10
Emanuele Curcio (University of Rome)
Ethical Language and Therapeutic Speech: A Phenomenological Perspective from Eugène Minkowski
15.20-15.50
Kathleen Murphy-Hollies (University of Birmingham)
Giving Uptake to the Metaphorical Meaning of Delusions
16.10-16.40
Noah Gounoue (Emory University)
Gaslighting, inflexibility, and the need to stretch
16.50-17.20
J.P. Grodniewicz (Jagiellonian University), Grzegorz Gaszczyk (University of Warsaw), Mateusz Hohol (Jagiellonian University)
Chatbots gonna chat: The absence of silence in conversations with therapeutic AI
May 9 2025
9.30-10.00 (GMT+2)
Carme Isern Mas (University of Balearic Islands) and Manuel Almagro (University of Valencia)
The Affective Injustice of Therapy Speak
10.10-10.40
Maximilian Philipps (University of Mannheim)
On the couch with Wittgenstein: The Role of Avowals in the Language Game of Psychotherapy
10.50-11.20
Olive Moloney (Tusla) and Kevin J. Power (Sacred Heart University/CIT & University College Cork)
The externalisation of hardship in rural Ireland
11.40-12.10
Tamara Trebes (Sigmund Freud University)
From Silence to Speech: The Role of Expressive Poetry Therapy in Psychotherapeutic Language
12.20-12.50
Ewa Glapka and Małgorzata Sokół University of Szczecin)
The language of therapy in digital spaces: Dialogical construction of mental health in online mental health communities
14-14.15 Exploratory
Sarah Goodman (New School)
The Challenge of Fragmentation: Rethinking the Possibility of Belief Revision via CBT
14.15-14.30 Exploratory
Adrian Kind (Charité Berlin)
Therapeutic Insight and Aspect Perception
14.40-14.55 Exploratory
María Alejandra Rivas Carrero (University of Salamanca)
Applying Ian Hacking's ecological niche metaphor to psychotherapy: A contextual approach
14.55-15.10 Exploratory
Rashmin Fazeeha and Ravi Chakraborty (Alliance University)
Can a Garrulous ELIZA help better? Generative AI and the future of Therapeutic Speech
15.20-15.50
Jiayi Fan (McGill University)
The Bearable Lightness of Being an Enclave: Diasporic Women's Translanguaging Monologue and Dual Reconstruction of Language and Self
16.10-16.40
Ela Altin (University of Edinburgh)
What does work in multiple languages mean for multilingual counsellors? The construction of multilingual counselling in the UK
16.50-17.20
James Ursell (University College London)
The Spirit and the Letter of Mindfulness