XXIInd Congress of the International Szondi Association
After postponing for two years the upcoming XXIInd Congress of the International Szondi Association, we gladly announce that the event will be held on
After 17 years we are pleased to welcome the memembers of the Association, and all the participants in our town, at our university which celebrated its 650th anniversary in 2017.
The Congress is will take place at and supported by the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Pécs


Welcome to Pécs!
The Congress will be organized at Grand Hotel Palatinus. The Congress is supported by the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Pécs. This university is one of the oldest institutions in Europe, it was founded in 1367. The Institute of Psychology was related to the International Szondi Association for decades, the curriculum at all levels of psychology education includes the theories of Szondi and the fate-analytic techniques used in therapy and counselling.
After 17 years we are glad to host the XXIInd Congress of the International Szondi Association in our institution. The event is organized by the members of the Department of Applied Psychology.
Mátyás Káplár - head (kaplar.matyas@pte.hu)
Bálint Takács - member
Dorian Vida - member
Robert Maebe - member
Conference Venue: Palatinus Grand Hotel
Address: 5 Király str., Pécs, Hungary 7621
Information about how to get to Pécs can be found here: How to get to Pécs?
Website of the Faculty: Faculty of Humanities an Social Sciences

Please fill in the regsitration form and submit your application. Registration fee can be payed by card (Barion) and through wire transfer. The detailes will be sent by email in 48 hours after the submission of your registration.
Paper submission is now closed. You can still register as a Non-presenting participant or Listener.
If you want to join the Conference online only, you do not need to register. Links to the online stream is available under the Online Streaming tab.
The registration fee includes:
-conference package
-scientific sessions
-coffee breaks
-conference dinner
Registration type | Registration fee paid before 10th of July 2022 |
Registration fee paid from 11th of July 2022 |
General fee | EUR 150 | EUR 190 |
ISA Member (dues payed for 2020-2022) | EUR 100 | EUR 130 |
PhD, MA or BA Student as presenter | EUR 70 | EUR 90 |
Online presenter | EUR 70 | EUR 90 |
Non-presenting Participant / Accompanying person (scientific sessions + conference dinner) |
EUR 50 | |
Listener (only scientific sessions) |
EUR 20 |
There are several good hotels around the Congress Venue which can provide you with comfortable accommodation. Among the different possibilities we suggest the following hotels that can be reached easily from the Palatinus Grand Hotel.
Hotel Corso**** (900m)
https://corso.accenthotels.com/hu
Boutique Hotel Sopiane *** (700m)
https://hotelsopianae.hu/en/
Palatinus Grand Hotel *** (on site)
https://palatinusgrandhotel.hu/en/
Hotel Arkadia **** (200m)
https://www.hotelarkadiapecs.hu/language-select.php?lang=en

21st July |
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13.00-14.00 | Registration | |
14.00-14.45 | Opening Ceremony | |
14.45-15.30 | Robert Maebe (Belgium) | Pathoanalysis and Anthropopsychiatry: Other Ways Starting from Szondi's Fate Analysis |
15.30-16.15 | Tomas Geyskens (Belgium) | The Use of the Szondi-Test in an Institution for Intellectually Disabled Adults. A Case-Study |
16.15-16.45 | Coffee Break | |
16.45-17.30 | Mátyás Káplár (Hungary) | Fate Analytic Counselling: Implementation of Szondian Concepts in Contemporary Psychology |
17.30-18.15 | Rolf Kenmo (Sweden) | How to avoid going for wrong job? The Concept of Human Guide |
22nd July |
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Section 1 Chair: Robert Maebe |
Section 2 Chair: Bruno Gonçalves |
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9.00-9.30 | Frank Renders (Belgium) Travelling to India with L. Szondi: The Beginning of a Thought Experiment |
Dorian Vida (Hungary) The Winds of Change in Narcissism Studies |
9.30-10.00 | Florian Mosso (France) L'intérêt et l'efficacité diagnostique des tests projectifs / The interest and the diagnostic efficiency of projective tests |
Adél Ferencz (Hungary) Alice Miller and Her Investment in the Future |
10.00-10.30 | Alua Bizhanova (United Kingdom) Relations of Attachment styles and work-family balance to the Szondian Theory |
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10.30-11.00 | Coffee Break | |
11.00-11.30 | Bálint Takács (Hungary) Fate and/or Change: Societal Implications of Identity-development and Commitment in Szondi, Erikson and Family Systems Theory |
Viktor Kemény (Hungary) „Born under a bad sign” the use of music therapy techniques within the Szondi’s theory |
11.30-12.00 | Szidalisz Ágnes Teleki (Hungary) A choice for life: ways of coping with chronic low back pain |
Ágnes Anna Kovács (Hungary) Long torn by ill fate or hidden object relations? – intergroup relations in the Hungarian political psychological arena |
12.00-13.00 | Lunch Break | |
Online Section Chair: Mátyás Káplár |
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13.00-13.30 | Takahisa Yamashita (Japan) | A Personal Proposal from an old Japanese Szondian to 21st-century Psychologists |
13.30-14.00 | Holger Schumacher (Germany) | Szondi and the Production, Reception, and Interpretation of Movies |
14.00-14.30 | Ágnes Erdélyi (Switzerland) | I don't have a father, but my mother… |
14.30-15.00 | Bohdan Biron (Ukraine) | Ukrainian School of Fate Analysis |
15.00-15.30 | Coffee Break | |
15.30-16.15 | Giselle Mueller-Roger Welter (Brasil) | Studies with the BBT and Human Guide Tests |
Workshop 1 | Workshop 2 | |
16.30-18.00 | Rolf Kenmo (Sweden) How can the HumanGuide concepts increase the passionindex in companies and organisations plus life? |
Mátyás Káplár (Hungary) Methods of Fate Analytic Counselling: a self-experience |
19.00-22.00 | Conference Dinner | |
23rd July |
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9.00-10.30 | Assembly of the International Szondi Association | |
10.30-11.30 | Farewell and Final Coffee Break |
Some sections of the Congress will be streamed online. The given sections will be available as a Microsoft Teams meeting free of charge. Participants can join the meetings by clicking on the links below and an administrator will let them in the meeting. Microsoft Teams is available through a web browser, installation of the software is not required. If you join through a web browser, for proper functioning you need to enable the microphone and the camera.
Opening Ceremony and Plenary Lectures 21.07.2022 14:00-18:30 CET
Online Section 22.07.2022 13:00-16:15 CET
The Program and Abstarct Book, containing the presented lectures is available here.
Click here to download the Program and Abstract Book.
Fate is always on the move.