Scientific Committee

Ela Barr

Clinical Psychologist, Certified Hypnosis Instructor

President, Israeli Society of Hypnosis

Head of Hypnosis Field, Technion Faculty of Medicine

Past Vice President, Israeli Society of Hypnosis

Past Ethics Committee Member, Israeli Society of Hypnosis

Professional Practice: Extensive public and private practice in the Netherlands and Israel, including roles in Oncology Department, Intercultural Psychiatry Department, Mood Disorder Department and General and Research Department.

Licensed Hypnosis Educator: Teaching physicians and psychologists at Technion's Advanced Medical School.

Guest Lecturer at national and international conferences

Education: Graduated cum laude, Clinical and Health Psychology, Leiden University, Netherlands.

Registered Clinical Psychologist

Licensed Hypnotist

Licensed Trainer of Hypnosis

Past Board Member of the Israeli Society of Hypnosis (IsSH)

Trained in EMDR, Biofeedback, CBT, Lacanian theory, Mindfulness, Psychedelic Psychotherapy, working with adults and adolescents dealing with different issues including trauma, personality disorders, anxiety, depression and psychosis.

Fluent in Arabic, Hebrew and English.

Wasim Biroumi

Dr Gabor Filo

Dr Filo graduated from University of Toronto Faculty of Dentistry in 1984. Since then, he has been an ardent and passionate proponent of dental hypnosis. During the last three decades, he has proselytized to fellow dentists at many of the major North American dental conferences.

He is a Diplomate of the American Board of Hypnosis in Dentistry, a Life Fellow of the American Society of Clinical Hypnosis and an Honorary member of the Canadian Society of Clinical Hypnosis – Ontario Division and the Hungarian Association of Hypnosis.

He has belonged to the major hypnosis societies, participating organizationally and as faculty, both nationally and internationally. He has authored articles, chapters and a DVD on Rapid Hypnosis. His private practice emphasizes the non-pharmacological treatment of dental anxiety and phobia. To that end Dr. Filo has been a 20+ year user of all tissue dental laser. He advocates for dental laser use and has lectured on their use.

Psychotherapists

Neurophysiologists

PHD

Professor

Rector of the Kyiv Medical University

Professor of the Department of Neurology, Psychiatry and Physical Rehabilitation

Academician of the National Academy of Higher Educational Sciences of Ukraine

Member of the ESH (Ukrainian Representative) and ISH

Vice President of the Ukrainian Association of Psychiatrists and Psychoanalysts

Head of the Ukrainian Society of Hypnosis

Dr Borys Ivnyev

Dr Kathleen Long

MBChB MPH DRCOG NLP master practitioner MBTI Level 1

ESH 2026 Congress Lead/Organiser

Immediate Past President ESH

Editor ESH Newsletter

President Hypnosis without Borders

Past President BSMDH

Secretary BSMDH

Honorary Chairperson BSMDH

Trainer for BSMDH Course

Medical Doctor Generalist

I have been involved in teaching and training for BSMDH for many years now. I have lectured in many countries and at European and International congresses.

Director, Scuola Italiana di Ipnosi e Psicoterapia Ericksoniana, Rome

Director, Istituto Italiano di Psicoterapia Relazionale, Rome

Founder and President, Italian Society of Psychotherapy (SIPSIC)

President, Italian Society of Hypnosis (SII)

Since 1998, Board of Directors of the Milton Erickson Foundation

Professor of Psychiatry “Sapienza” University of Rome

Past-President, International Society of Hypnosis (ISH),

Past-President European Society of Hypnosis (ESH)

Since 2020 Founder and Director of the Silent Emotions Center for Eating Disorders Diagnosis and Treatment, in Rome

INTERNATIONAL RECOGNITIONS

The Milton H. Erickson Lifetime Achievement Award for outstanding contribution to the field of Psychotherapy, Milton H. Erickson Foundation (2001).

ESH Fellowship, in recognition of his outstanding contribution to the European Society of Hypnosis (2011)

Benjamin Franklin Award (Gold Medal), the highest ISH honor, with the following motivation: Prolific author, creative therapist distinguished leader. by the International Society of Hypnosis (2012).

Shirley R. Schneck Award for the Significant Contributions to the Development of Medical Hypnosis, by Society of Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis (SCEH) (2012).

ESH with Honorary Membership by the Europeann Society of Hypnosis, for an outstanding contribute to the field of Hypnosis (2014).

Authored over 440 scientific papers and 34 books, and among them:

Loriedo,C., Vella,G., Paradox and the Family System, Brunner\Mazel, New York, 1992

Loriedo,C., Peter,B. (Eds.), The New Hypnosis: the utilization of personal resources in Ericksonian practice and training, Hypnosis International Monographs, Munich, 2002.

Loriedo,C., Zeig,J.K., Nardone,G, Tranceforming. Ericksonian Metods, Milton Erickson Foundation Press, Phoenix, 2010

Dr Camillo Loriedo

Peter Naish

Now retired, most of Peter's career has been in research, including a spell working for the British Ministry of Defence.

Hypnosis has formed a major part of his studies, with a large number of hypnosis-related publications.

He has held posts in several public bodies, including the ESH, the British Association for the Advancement of Science and the Royal Society of Medicine.

Medical Doctor

ESH Certificate (ESHC) holder

Certified Hypnotherapist

Hypnosis Instructor

Trainer and Supervisor

Certified Acupuncturist

Certified Positive Psychotherapist

Family Consultant

ESH Treasurer and ESH BOD Member

The Founder Member and the current President of Society of Medical Hypnosis (THD), Turkiye

Member of ISH

His specialty is Awareness Under Conscious Hypnosis (AUCH) Method

Besides his studies in numerous Universities, he has his private practice with applications of AUCHfor pain management, surgery, obstetrics, hypnoanestesia, psychosomatic medicine, positive psychotherapy, family therapy, hypnoacupuncture etc.

Dr. Ali Özden Öztürk

Dr Bogdan Pavlovici

PhD

Child Psychiatrist and Therapist

University Department of Child Psychiatry

Hospital of Versailles, France, since 2003 (and other hospitals between 1998 and 2003)

Judicial Expert in Adult and Child Psychiatry at the Court of Appeal in Versailles, since 2021/1/1

University Lecturer within the framework of the University Diploma in Legal Expertise in Child Psychiatry and Psychology, since 2020, directed by Professor Maurice Berger, University René Descartes, Paris.

Diplomas - Doctorate in medicine, the 1998/4/1 Specialised Diploma in psychiatry, the 1998/4/30 Specialised Diploma in child psychiatry, the 1999/10/28 University Diploma in psychopharmacology, 1996/09/11 University Diploma in « adolescence, medical, psychological and social aspects, the 1997/11/25 University Diploma in Clinical Hypnosis, the 2009/06/12 Inter-University Diploma in Legal Psychiatry, July 2019 Master in medical and biologic sciences (genetics, biochemistry and molecular biology), the 1996/5/2

Other certificates - Certificate of training in familial therapy, delivered by IDES (Institut d’Etudes Systémiques, PARIS), the 2021/10/4 Psychotherapist, June 2010 Certificate of training in HTSMA (hypnosis and brief therapies by alternative movements), June 2010 Certificate of training in therapeutic hypnosis, June 2013

Private practice - Child and adult psychiatrist, between 2007/12/1 and 2010/10/31, in Chesnay-City (near Versailles)

Known speaker and attended multiple conferences.

Publications - Books : B. PAVLOVICI : « the levers of change : a therapist briefly on stage », published the 21 August 2019 by Enrick Barbillon Editions, Paris. A. BIOY, B. PAVLOVICI et Co : « 15 clinical cases in pediatric hypnosis », DUNOD Editions, September 2020, Paris B. PAVLOVICI : « The written frisbee : the art of performing care at a distance », November 2020, Enrick Barbillon Editions, Paris.

Articles : B. PAVLOVICI, H. DONNADIEU : « Study of the fate of 19 cases of mental anorexia », Revue Française de Psychiatrie et de Psychologie médicale, n° 33, déc.1999, p. 27-32. B. PAVLOVICI : « The village of adoptees : a construction on two on the edge of the abyss », revue « Imaginaire et 4 Inconscient », Editions « l’esprit du temps », 2009, n° 24, p. 151-164. B. PAVLOVICI, L. KOKH : « children’s homes and narratif ways of helping », ERES Editions, revue « enfance et psy », 2018/1 N° 77, pages 151-162. B. PAVLOVICI: « a firefighter saving virtual addictions », revue “Brain”, 2021 B. PAVLOVICI: « Dad, Mom, the psychiatrist and me: understanding the transgenerational way of treatment », revue « Hypnose et thérapies brèves », Le Germe SATAS Editions, 2021, n° 60, p. 10-18. B PAVLOVICI : « the written frisbee or how talking care at distance », revue de l’hypnose et de la santé, DUNOD, n° 18, January 2022 B. PAVLOVICI : « the written Frisbee », revue “Brain”, 2024 B. PAVLOVICI : « The contribution of systemic modelling and of early maladaptive schema in psychiatric expertise », revue “Brain”, 2024

Psychiatrist

Psychotherapist

Expert in Clinical Hypnosis

Trainer and Supervisor

Past President of the ESH (European Society of Hypnosis) and of the VHYP (Flemish Scientific Hypnosis Society).

Elected as Board of Directors member of ISH in 2015.

Works in a private practice in Antwerp (Belgium) for more than 30 years.

She gave many keynotes, lectures, and workshops for Constitutional Hypnosis Societies of ESH and ISH in Europe, Canada, USA, China, Iran and Australia.

She published papers on hypnosis for stress control, burnout, and happiness.

In 2019, she received the Shirley Schneck Award from the Society for Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis in recognition of her significant contributions to the development of medical hypnosis.

In 2023, she received The Roll of Honour Award for being instrumental in building up a Constituent Society and therefore the ESH.

She is the author of a basic handbook “Klinische Hypnose” Exploratie en Inspiratie. RUYSSCHAERT Nicole Klinische Hypnose - Exploratie en inspiratie (satas.com) and “Zelfhypnose Werkt. Een veerkrachtig Antwoord op stress, burn-out en trauma” Zelfhypnose werkt | Uitgeverij Lannoo. And of “Hoe helpende zorgtaal werkt. Omgaan bij angst, pijn en stress bij patiënten. Hoe helpende zorgtaal werkt | Uitgeverij LannooCampus

Nicole Ruysschaert

Website: www.nicoleruysschaert.com

E-mail: nicole.ruysschaert@skynet.be

Dr Christian Straus

MD, Specialist physician in Pulmonology and Intensive Care

PhD (Respiratory Physiology)

Professor of Physiology at the Faculty of Medicine, Sorbonne University, Paris, France

Deputy Director of the Joint Research Unit of Inserm and Sorbonne University, UMRS 1158 (Dir: Pr T. Similowski), "Experimental and Clinical Respiratory Neurophysiology"

Head of the Pulmonary Function Laboratory, Pitié-Salpêtrière and Tenon Hospitals, Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris, Paris, France

Head of the Medical Hypnosis Teaching Unit for medical students at Sorbonne University, Paris, France

Member of the management committee of the French-speaking Confederation of Hypnosis and Brief Therapies

Hypnosis teacher for physicians in the frame of the University Diploma in Medical Hypnosis at Sorbonne University, Paris, France (Dir: Dr. J-M. Benhaiem)