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C.I.S.S.P.A.T. (Italian Center for the Study and Development of Short Term Psychotherapy) IS INVOLVED IN SHORT TERM PSYCHOTHERAPY WITH A PSYCHO-ANALYTICAL ORIENTATION, IN PARTICULAR INDIVIDUAL SHORT TERM DYNAMIC PSYCHOTHERAPY AND FOR ADULT SUBJECTS.

Founded in 1972 by Prof. Luigi Peresson, who has managed it since 1991, it was established by official act in 1975, as an Association governed by private law. CISSPAT is one of the oldest qualified psychotherapeutic training schools in Italy.
The current model uses and enriches the cultural inheritance and training tradition and reinforces a previously existing interest in the educational and scientific organization of our Center as well as the natural evolution based on trends which arose in the 1970's regarding Italian and foreign psychotherapy involving therapeutic models based on Psychoanalytical theory which are effected in shorter time frames.

This final orientation is documented by the 1984 modification of the Statute, approved by the 1986 International Congress and confirmed with the new name that CISSPAT assumed in 1993 as the Italian Center for the Study and Development of Short Term Psychotherapy. It is with this name that it received accreditation from MURST (Italian Ministry of the University and Scientific and Technological Research) with Ministerial Decree dated 29.01.2001 published in the Italian Official Gazette no. 41 dated 19.02.2001.