30 years after the death of Emil Cioran, the Romanian Association of Person-Centered Psychotherapy (ARPCP) is organizing a conference dedicated to the Romanian philosopher addressed to psychotherapists - Glimpses of Paradoxical Serenity - Emil Cioran and Person-Centered Psychotherapy The conference will take place on February 8, 2025 at Seneca AntiCafe, Arhitect Ion Mincu Street, no. 1, Bucharest, starting at 10:00. The event aims to debate the living connections between Emil Cioran's writings and psychotherapy. If Cioran and Rogers had met one day, how would their dialogue have gone? Can nihilism approach the tendency to actualization? Are there benefits to accepting pessimism? Do Cioran and psychoanalysis meet at some crossroads of ideas? Conference Program: 10.00 - 11.20 Dr. Christoph Solstreif-Pirker (Gratz/Austria)- "The Valuation of Vanity and the Tendency to Silent Still Actualization. The First Encounters between E. Cioran and Person-Centered Psychotherapy" 11.20 - 12.00 Dr. Horia Vicențiu Pătrașcu (author of the book "Therapy through Cioran. The Force of Negative Thinking", Politehnica University of Science and Technology of Bucharest) - "Emil Cioran's Philosophical Therapeutics" 12.00 - 12.30 Break 12.30 - 13.10 Dr. Arthur Suciu (Ștefan cel Mare University of Suceava)- "Cioran and Zen Buddhism - in Search of a Therapeutics" 13.10 - 14.30 Lunch break 14.30 - 15.10. Dr. Marius Dobre (Institute of Philosophy and Psychology Constantin Rădulescu Motru, Romanian Academy, author of the book "Certitudes of a Skeptic. Emil Cioran") - "Cioran and Psychoanalysis" 15.10 - 15.50 Dr. Leonid Dragomir "Why does Cioranian pessimism have a tonic effect? Beyond Cioran's pessimism" 15.50 - 16.30 Mario Barangea (independent researcher) - "The benefits of pessimism. A genealogy of constructive pessimism from Nietzsche to Cioran" 16.30 - 17.00 Break 17.30 - 19.00 Encounter Group: Georgeta Niculescu, Dr. Florentina Palada, Mihaela Teodorescu
