Sergio Perez is a psychiatrist from Cuba involved in suicide prevention since 1976. He was a member of the main organization of suicide prevention ( IASP, IASR, BI; ADIS; etc). He is the founder of Suicidology Section in the World Psychiatry Association and the World Suicidology Net. He is the temporal advisor of World Health Organization and Panamerican Health Organization for the suicide prevention in the Region of The Americas.

Research interests are teaching volunteers in preventing suicide and management of suicidal crisis for family, general practitioners, young psychiatrists and all people interested in this theme.

Alfried LÄNGLE, M.D., Ph.D., Dr., faculty professor, and honorary professor, born in 1951 in Austria, studied medicine and psychology at the Universities of Innsbruck, Rome, Toulouse and Vienna. After years of hospital work in general medicine and psychiatry and in an outpatient department of social psychiatry, he started a private practice in psychotherapy, general medicine and clinical psychology in Vienna (since 1982). Close collaboration with Viktor Frankl from 1983 to 1991). Founder (1983) of the International Society for Logotherapy and Existential Analysis (Vienna). Constant lecturer at the Universities of Vienna (1984 - 2006), Innsbruck (1994 - 2000), a lecturer at universities of Buenos Aires, Santiago de Chile, Salta, Moscow etc. and since 2000 of Moscow. Faculty member and professor of applied psychology (psychotherapy) at the Moscow’s HSE-university (since 2004), at Vienna’s Sigmund Freud University (2011) and Docent at the psychological department of the University of Klagenfurt, Austria (since 2006). Founder of the stately approved training school of Existential-Analytical Psychotherapy. Vice President of the International Federation of Psychotherapy (IFP 2002 - 2010) and President of the International Society for Logotherapy and Existential Analysis, Vienna. 5 honorary professorships in medicine and psychology.

My professional interest is mainly centered on the application of phenomenology in the practical work of psychotherapy and psychotherapy research. It works with an open approach to what appears to the subject involved and seems to be essential for them. This implies qualitative research methods which supersede quantitative data thanks to more possibilities of interpretation and gaining specific, personalized information. Apart from this the theme of what consists our existence, its fundamental dimensions and processes are in the center of my interest. From hence derive my interest in personality disorders, also seen from an existential perspective.

Presently, I am Professor Ph.D. at the Hyperion University of Bucharest, Head of Psychology Department, where I teach Psychotherapy and Psychology of addiction. I am also certified psychotherapist in cognitive-behavioral therapy and clinician psychologist. I have a Ph.D. in psychology obtained from the University of Bucharest, with the thesis: Pathological gambling; model of cognitive-behavioral therapy. I supervise master degree dissertations and I am a member of Scientific Board of the Romanian Journal of Experimental Applied Psychology, Gavin Journal of Addiction Research and Therapy and The Psychologies Studies Review of the Hyperion University of Bucharest.

Introduction to psychotherapy; Psychology of addiction; Psychodiagnosis and clinical assessment of child and adolescent; Child and adolescent psychopathology, clinical practice

Dr. Carroy (Cuf) Ferguson has a Ph.D. in Psychology from Boston College. He is a tenured professor, former dean, and currently human service internship coordinator at College of Public and Community Service, UMass Boston. In 2006, he made history by becoming the first African American president of the Association for Humanistic Psychology and is currently in that role again. He is an author of books and articles; a clinical practitioner; Associate Editor, Journal of Humanistic Psychology; and co-founder of two visionary organizations (Associates in Human Understanding; Interculture, Inc).

Clinical psychology; Evolution of consciousness, energy, and belief systems; Human relations; Race relations; Organizational development; Social justice; Self-empowerment; Multicultural dynamics.