Table 1 Presidents and locations of the European Conferences of Psychosomatic Research (ECPR)

• D. Leigh (London 1955)

• J.J. Groen (Amsterdam 1956)^a

• V. Lunn (Copenhagen 1957)

• A. Jores (Hamburg 1959)

• J. Rof Carballa & J.J. Lopéz-Ibor (Madrid 1961)

• G.S. Philippopoulos (Athens 1964)

• F. Antonelli (Rome 1967)

• R. Pierloot (Knokke 1970)

• E. Ringel (Vienna 1972)

• C. Aitken (Edinburgh 1974)

• W. Bräutigam (Heidelberg 1976)

• F. Askevold (Bodø 1978)

• G. Koptagel-Ilal (Istanbul 1980)^a

• H. Pelser (Nordwijkerhout 1982)

• H. Wolff (London 1984)

• G. Christodolou (Athens 1986)^a

• W. Schüffel (Marburg 1988)^a

• P. Tienari (Helsinki 1990)

• (1992 in Dubrovnik cancelled due to Bosnian war)

• M. van Moffaert (Gent 1994)

• M. Bourgeois (Bordeaux 1996)

• F. Creed (Manchester 1998)^{a b c}, founding of EACLPP with common biannual and separated biannual meetings

• U.F. Malt (Oslo 2000)^b

• G. Cardoso & A. Barbosa (Lisbon 2002)^a

• H.C. Deter (Berlin 2004)^{a c}

• M. Talcic (Cavtat 2006)

• A. Lobo (Zaragossa 2008)^b

• G. Schüssler (Innsbruck 2010)^b

• P. Fink (Aarhus 2012)^{a b c}, founding EAPM with annual meetings

• D. Dumitrascu (Sibiu 2014)^{a c}