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Table 1 Presidents and Congresses of ICPM

From: The International College of Psychosomatic Medicine – a personal history

Presidents of ICPM

World Congresses

Eric Wittkower, Canada 1970–1973

1st Guadalajara, Mexico 1971

Mauricio Knobel, Argentina 1973–1975

2nd Amsterdam, Netherlands 1973

Morton Reiser, USA 1975–1977

3rd Rome, Italy 1975

Yujiro Ikemi, Japan 1977–1979

4th Kyoto, Japan 1977

Adam Krakowski, USA 1979–1981

5th Jerusalem, Israel 1979

Jan Bastiaans, Netherlands 1981–1983

6th Montreal, Canada 1981

Chase Kimball, USA 1983–1985

7th Hamburg, Germany 1983

Cairns Aitken, UK 1985–1987

8th Chicago, USA 1985

Juan Lopez-Ibor, Jr., Spain 1987–1989

9th Sidney, Australia 1987

Herbert Weiner, USA 1989–1991

10th Madrid, Spain 1989

Michael von Rad, Germany 1991–1993

11th Brazil –Cancelled

Atara Kaplan deNour, Israel 1993–1995

12th Bern, Switzerland 1993

Hubert Lacey, UK 1995–1997

13th Jerusalem, Israel 1995

Don Byrne, Australia 1997–1999

14th Cairns, Australia 1997

Don Lipsitt, USA 1999–2001

15th Athens, Greece 1999

Tatjana Sivik, Sweden 2001–2003

16th Göteborg, Sweden 2001

George Christodoulou, Greece 2003–2005

17th Waikoloa, Hawaii, USA 2003

Tom Sensky, UK 2005–2007

18th Kobe, Japan 2005

Giovanni Fava, Italy 2007–2009

19th Quebec City, Canada 2007

Jon Streltzer, USA 2009–2011

20th Torino, Italy 2009

Chiharu Kubo, Japan 2011–2013

21st Seoul, Korea 2011

Thomas Wise, USA 2013–2015

22nd Lisbon, Portugal 2013

Antonio Barbosa, Portugal 2015–2017

23rd Glasgow, UK 2015

Fiammetta Cosci, Italy President-elect

Future Congresses – Beijing, China 2017; Florence, Italy 2019