4rd Symposium

FOUNDATION'S FOURTH SYMPOSIUM
BEHIND AND BEYOND THE BRAIN
Casa do Médico - Porto
4th, 5th and 6th April 2002

Exceptional interpersonal relationships

Program

April 4 

09h30 - Registration

11h00 - Opening Session

11h30 - Opening Conference
Cerebral Mechanisms of Stress Activation
António Coimbra

12h30 - Break


1st Session
Exceptional interpersonal interactions: Basic issues
Chairman – Robert Morris

14h30 - Errors and Biases in Our Perception of Self and Others
Daryl Bem

15h15 - The role of non-verbal communication in relationships, happiness and religion
Michael Argyle

16h00 - Coffee Break

16h30 - Attraction and Mating: between Biology and Culture
Rodrigo Saraiva

17h15 - Telepathy: Revisiting its roots
Richard Broughton

18h00 - Discussion

19h00 - Posters session - Bial Foundation's Fellows

April 5
2nd Session
Exceptional interpersonal interactions: Affiliation and emotion
Chairman –Jerome Kagan

09h00 - Sensing Self and Other Out-of Body and In the Future: Exceptional Explanations for Everyday Human Experiences
Colwyn Trevarthen

09h45 - Construction of attachment: from relation to self and from self to relations
Isabel Soares

10h30 - Coffee Break

11h00 - Anomalous Communication Among Relatives and Others with a Special Relationship
Kathy Dalton 

11h45 - Does Mind Survive Physical Death?
David Fontana

12h30 - Discussion

13h00 - Lunch Break


3rd Session
Exceptional experiences in therapeutic interactions
Chairman – Ian Stevenson

14h30 - Therapeutic relationship: a personalized approach of Science and Art
Rui Mota Cardoso

15h15 - The intrusion of anomalous communication in group and individual psychotherapy: clinical observations and a research project
James Carpenter

16h00 - Coffee Break

16h30 - New Insights into the Nature of Hypnotisability
John Gruzelier

17h15 - Spiritual Intervention in Acute Cardiac Care: The Monitoring & Actualization of Noetic Trainings (MANTRA) Study Project
Mitchell Krucoff and Suzanne Crater

18h00 - Discussion

19h00 - Posters session - Bial Foundation's Fellows

April 6
4th session
Exceptional interpersonal interaction and performance
Chairman – Fernando Lopes da Silva

09h00 - Research on psychological development
Alexandre Castro-Caldas

09h45 - Is Love good for your health? Intimacy and the process of flow
Stanley Krippner 

10h30 - Coffee Break

11h00 - Melting Boundaries - Subjectivity and Intersubjectivity in the Light of Parapsychological Data
Harald Walach

11h45 - Researcher effects and remote enhancement of focusing of attention
Caroline Watt

12h30 - Discussion

13h30 - Lunch Break

15h00 - Comprehensive Round Table
António Coimbra, Robert Morris, Jerome Kagan, Ian Stevenson e Fernando Lopes da Silva

17h00 - Closing session

GENERAL INFORMATION

Limited number of registrations

The Symposium will take place at:
Casa do Médico
Rua Delfim Maia, 405,
Porto, Portugal

Simultaneous translation will be assured from English to Portuguese and vice-versa


SYMPOSIUM'S REGISTRATION FEE
€150
€100 - students
These amounts do not include meals


PAYMENT
By cheque, payable to Fundação Bial, sent to:
À Av. da Siderurgia Nacional,
4745-457, S. Mamede do Coronado
Portugal