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The 17th ISPS International Congress: May 31st–June 4th, 2011 “Psychological Therapies for Psychoses in the 21st Century Influencing Brain, Mind and Society”

The 17th ISPS Congress was held in Dubrovnik, Croatia just two years after the 16th meeting in Copenhagen due to the increasing interest in the psychology and psychological therapies of the psychoses. Since the early 1990s Dubrovnik has been the host of the annual School of Psychotherapy of Psychoses that is organized by Sla dana Štrkalj Ivezić and Ivan Urlić. It has always been an excellent learning opportunity and is an ideal setting for the exchange of ideas and clinical practices. This year the city of Dubrovnik with its beauty and historical richness was a wonderful scene for the ISPS International congress. The atmosphere was very intense and hard working right from the very beginning. People freely communicated and shared ideas in the sessions as well as during time in between. The peaceful coexistence of different therapeutic modalities is not new for ISPS but the Dubrovnik congress was special and important due to the increased presence of people who have had the experience of psychosis and also their relatives and both gave their presentations in the same sessions alongside researchers and clinicians. The sessions worked as true learning experiences and demonstrated how important is the partnership between science and experience and how each might augment and contribute to each other. The Dubrovnik congress introduced two plenary lectures each day that covered the main theme of the day. The spectrum of topics included