09:15-09:30 - Introduction by the workshop organizer
: (Marco Del Giudice)
Morning session
09:30-10:20 - Reimagining psychotherapy: evolution, genetics, and the next generation of cognitive behavioral therapy
: (Mike Abrams, New York University, Albert Ellis Institute,USA)
10:20-11:10 - Quick to anger, slow to recover: an evolutionary model of anger treatment
: (Ray DiGiuseppe, St.John's University,USA)
11:10-11:40 - Coffe Break
11:40-12:30 - The meaning of menopause: implications for treatment
: (Lidia D. Abrams, Albert Ellis Institute,USA)
12:30-14:00 - Lunch
Afternoon session
14:00-14:50 - Framing an ecological turn in psychotherapy: towards a radically interpersonal model of life history and clinical staging
: (Simone Cheli, St. John's University, USA)
14:50-15:40 - The future of evolutionary approaches to psychotherapy: convergence, diversification, and outstanding questions
: (Marco Del Giudice, University of Trieste, Italy)
15:40-16:20 - Coffee break
16:20-17:45 - Roundtable and discussion with the speakers
Evening
21:30-23:00 - Social get-together
April 16, 2026
Morning session
09:00-09:50 - Is sustained negative emotional processing adaptive?
: (Leif Kennair, Norwegian University of Science and Technology)
09:50-10:20 - Can evolutionary insights improve psychotherapy? A randomised controlled trial on test anxiety
: (Ronja Lavinia Schmoll, University of Zürich, Switzerland):
10:20-11:10 - Cognitive Evolutionary Therapy for Depression – protocol, effectiveness, challenges
: (Cezar Giosan, University of Bucharest, Romania)
11:10-11:40 - Coffe Break
11:40-12:10 - Clinician’s attitudes to evolutionary versus genetic explanations for anxiety: a cluster-randomised study of stigmatization
: (Adam Hunt, University of Cambridge, UK)
12:10-14:00 - Lunch
Afternoon session
14:00-14:50 - Integrating evolutionary theory with contemporary evidence-based psychotherapy
: (Daniel Glass, Sasco River Center)
14:50-15:10 - Schizophrenia as mental entropy: an evolutionary model and therapeutic protocol for treating alien paleognosia and restoring Homo sapiens neognosia
: (Tullio Scrimali, University of Catania, ALETEIA, Italy)
15:10-15:40 - Genomic architecture of psychopathology: evolutionary trade-offs and general fitness
: (Sophie Breunig, University of Colorado - Boulder, USA)
15:40-16:20 - Coffee break
16:20-17:45 - Roundtable and discussion with the speakers
Evening
21:30-23:00 - Social get-together
April 17, 2026
Morning session
09:00-09:50 - The basic adaptive nature of human mental functioning
: (Francesco Gazzillo, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy)
09:50-10:20 - Control-Mastery Theory and severe autonomic dysregulation: a possible integration
: (Pierre Gilbert Rossini, University of Turin, USA and Chiara Fasolino, Centro Clinico Lume)
10:20-11:10 - Interpersonal motivational systems in attachment-informed therapy
: (Lucia Tombolini, ARPAS, SITCC, AIPA, Italy)
11:10-11:40 - Coffe Break
11:40-12:10 - Interpersonal Motivational Systems and Control Mastery Theory: a dialogue between two evolutionary theories
: (Emanuele Bruno, Centro Clinico Lume)
12:10-14:00 - Lunch
Afternoon session
14:00-14:50 - The Relational/Multi-Motivational Therapeutic Approach (RE.MO.T.A.): an integrative and comparative approach combining relational clinical knowing and motivational system theories
: (Antonella Ivaldi, SITCC, IARPP, SEPI, Italy)
14:50-15:20 - Trait interpersonal motivational systems and psychopathological dimensions
: (Rosario Esposito, University of Campania “Luigi Vanvitelli”, SPC, Italy)
15:20-15:50 - Belonging, intersubjectivity, and relational security: a control-mastery perspective on human motivation
: (Alessandro Carbocci, Centro Clinico Lume)
15:50-16:30 - Coffee break
16:30-18:00 - Roundtable and discussion with the speakers