Speakers

Keynote Speakers

Jeffrey Jensen Arnett is a Research Professor in the Department of Psychology at Clark University in Worcester, Massachusetts. He coined the term “emerging adulthood,” and he is the author of Emerging Adulthood: The Winding Road from the Late Teens through the Twenties (Oxford University Press), along with numerous scholarly articles in this area. He is also the author of the textbook Adolescence and Emerging Adulthood: A Cultural Approach (Prentice Hall). In 2005, he was a Fulbright Scholar at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark. Since 2002 he has been the Editor of the Journal of Adolescent Research. Dr. Arnett can be contacted at arnett@jeffreyarnett.com

Miguel M. Gonçalves is Professor at School of Psychology, University of Minho, Portugal. He is vice-president of the International Society of Dialogical Self and action editor of Psychotherapy Research. His main research interests center in the narrative and dialogical processes in psychotherapy. He has developed the concept of innovative moment as events in psychotherapy in which novelties towards a previous problematic pattern emerge. This concept has been inspiring his research projects for the past few years. Dr. Goncalves can be contacted at mgoncalves@psi.uminho.pt

Hubert Hermans is one of the main theorists in narrative psychology and in narrative psychotherapy. During his career he has developed several influential methods and theories. One of them is theSelf Confrontation Method (SCM) that has led to the establishment of the Association for SCM practitioners that has around 300 members in 2010.  Another is the Dialogical Self Theory that has led to the organization of biennial international conferences, the establishment of the International Society for Dialogical Science (ISDS) and the International Journal for Dialogical Science (IJDS). Hermans is an author of around 200 publications, mainly on the Self-Confrontation Method and Dialogical Self Theory. His work is translated into nine languages. He is author of Self-Narratives: The Construction of Meaning in Psychotherapy (with Els Hermans-Jansen), The Dialogical Self in Psychotherapy (with Giancarlo Dimaggio) and Dialogical Self Theory: Positioning and Counter-Positioning in a Globalizing Society (with Agnieszka Hermans-Konopka). Dr. Hermans can be contacted at hhermans@psych.ru.nl

Peter Raggatt is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Psychology at James Cook University, Townsville, Australia. He has interests in social and critical theory, personality, and narrative psychology. He has made recent contributions to Theory & Psychology (2007, 2010), the Journal of Personality (2006), and the Handbook of Dialogical Self Theory (2011). He has also recently co-edited (with Marie-Cecile Bertau and Miguel Goncalves) a text on developmental aspects of the dialogical self, to appear in 2012. Dr. Raggatt can be contacted at peter.raggatt@jcu.edu.au

Featured Lecturers

Vincent W. Hevern, S.J., Ph.D., is Professor and former Chair of Psychology at Le Moyne College, Syracuse, NY. A licensed clinical psychologist, he has taught fulltime at Le Moyne since 1991. His scholarly interests include the narrative perspective in the social sciences (particularly its historical and theoretical background), dialogical aspects of identity development, the role of emerging Internet environments in the construction of the self, and the interface of psychology with contemporary and digital media. He served as the first Internet Editor for the Society for the Teaching of Psychology from 1996 to 2005 and established online the Office of Teaching Psychology Resources (OTRP) for that society. He is currently Associate and Managing Editor of the online International Journal for Dialogical Science and the Secretary-Treasurer of the Society for the History of Psychology, Division 26 of the American Psychological Association (APA). He is a Fellow of APA. He has been a member of the Society of Jesus (Jesuits) since 1966 and was ordained a Roman Catholic priest in 1976.

John Rowan is a Fellow of the British Psychological Society, and the author of a number of books, the most recent of which is Personification: Using the Dialogical Self in Psychotherapy and Counselling.  He has contributed to three earlier conferences on the application of Dialogical Self ideas to psychotherapy. His book on the transpersonal in therapy is now in its second edition, and one of the advantages of the Dialogical Self approach, as he sees it, is that we can actually talk to our Soul, or communicate with the Spirit, or have a conversation with God. Dr. Rowan can be contacted at inforowan@aol.com or visit hie website by clicking here.

Henderikus Stam is a Professor of Psychology at the University of Calgary and a member of the Theory Program as well as the Clinical Program in the department. He founded, and is the current editor of the journal Theory & Psychology, based out of the University of Calgary, which is in its 21st year of publication. He has authored more than 130 publications, most recently on the history and foundations of psychology.  He has served as President of the International Society for Theoretical Psychology, President of Division 24 (Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology) of the American Psychological Association, and has lectured widely in North America and Europe. Dr. Stam can be contacted at stam@ucalgary.ca