The World Council for Psychotherapy is an

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with consultative status at the Economic and Social Council of the

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. It was founded in 1995, has its

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, and holds a World Congress every three years with more than a thousand participants.

Objectives

The main objectives of the association are the promotion of psychotherapy on all continents (based on the principles in the Strasbourg Declaration on Psychotherapy in 1990), to improve the conditions of patients, to cooperate with national and international organizations to improve

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and peacekeeping, and to unify world training standards. Members are both psychotherapists and

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s. President of the WCP is Alfred Pritz. The World Certificate for Psychotherapy (WCPC) is only awarded on the basis of recognized psychotherapy training and aims to encourage mobility within the

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. Each year, together with the city of Vienna, the Council awards the International Sigmund Freud Award for Psychotherapy.

World Congress for Psychotherapy

* 1996 Vienna * 1999 Vienna * 2002 Vienna * 2005

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* 2008

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* 2011

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* 2014

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* 2017

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* 2020 Moscow * 2022 Moscow

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