Friday, November 19
10:00-10:10
Raffaele Donini, Head of the Health Department of the Emilia-Romagna Region / WELCOME BY THE AUTHORITIES
10:10-10:30
Michele A. Rugo / GIVING A NAME TO A NUMBER – Introduction to the Conference

FIRST SESSION (10:30-13:00)
WHAT DOES HEALING MEAN? Clinical debate on healing criteria
In the first session the concepts of cure, recovery and remission will be presented from a multidisciplinary perspective. The basic assumption underlying the presentations is the consideration of healing as a process and treatment as a practice.
10:30-11:00
Luigina Mortari / TAKING CARE OF OTHERS: DIFFERENT MODES OF CARE PRACTICE
11:00-11:30
Donatella Ballardini / ALLIANCES, TREATMENTS, REMISSION
11:30-12:10
Vittorio Lingiardi e Laura Muzi / CUSTOMIZED HEALING: RESEARCH ON TREATMENT OUTCOMES
12:10-12:40
Stephan Zipfel / NEW INSIGHTS IN BODY IMAGE DISTURBANCE AND THERAPY (online)
DISCUSSION 15 minutes 13:00 – 14:00 Quick Lunch


SECOND SESSION (14:15-16:30)
INTERRUPTIONS AND PATIENT WORSENINGS. Interferences in the treatment process
In the second session presentations will focus on the identification and analysis of the main elements that can cause treatment failure and patients’ dropout: diagnostic severity, psychiatric comorbidity and family interference in the treatment process.
14:15-14:45
Lucy Serpell / HOW TO IMPROVE OUTCOMES AND REDUCE DROPOUT FOR ANOREXIA NERVOSA
14:45-15:15
Antonio Vita / INSTABILITY AND BEHAVIORAL ACTING OUT: PHARMACOLOGICAL TREATMENTS
15:15 - 15:45
Milena B. Montaguti / INTRACTABILITY AND DIAGNOSIS
15:45-16:15
Pietro Barbetta / THE INTRUSION OF THE FAMILY
DISCUSSION 15 minutes

Saturday, November 20
THIRD SESSION (10:30-12:45)
SUBJECTIVE TRANSFORMATIONS. Reconfigurations of symptoms
The third session will deal with the patient’s treatment and recovery processes, defining the terms of the subject’s rehabilitation, residual symptoms and the conclusion of the therapeutic process.
10:30-11:00
Giovanni Abbate Daga / THE PSYCHIATRIC DIMENSION: CRITERIA AND INDICATORS OF HEALING
11:00-11:30
Valentina Fasoli / LIFE EXPERIENCES AFTER TRAUMA
11:30-12:00
Jeanne Magagna / THE HEALED PATIENT (online)
12:00-12:30
Massimo Recalcati / REHABILITATING DESIRE
DISCUSSION 15 minutes
12:45 – 13:45 Quick Lunch

FOURTH SESSION (14:00-16:30)
SOCIAL REINTEGRATION AND NETWORKING. Continuity of care
In the final session, professionals from the main treatment areas will discuss the key aspects of discharge, social reintegration and how to monitor the evolution of ED patients over time, i.e. the indispensable elements of relapse prevention.
14:00-14:30
Anna Rita Atti / THE NETWORK AROUND THE PATIENT: FROM THE START OF CASE MANAGEMENT TO FOLLOW-UP
14:30-15:00
Elena Tomba / PREVENTING RELAPSE RISK FACTORS
15:00-15:30
Andrea Panìco / THE SCHOOL SYSTEM AND EATING DISORDERS
15:30-16:00
Cristiana Andruccioli, Claudia Attili, Iolanda Romano / SOCIAL REINTEGRATION
16:00-16:30
Massimo Recalcati / CONCLUSIONS