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Submission deadline is Thursday, January 7.
Please take note of all guidelines – some have been updated, based on the increased number of submissions in recent years.
Content Criteria: Studies related to the theme of the Congress are particularly encouraged, but presentations on any topic are welcome. We welcome abstracts for research presentations, posters, or symposia that meet the first or second criterion:
(1) experimental, clinical, or theoretical presentations that have an explicit psychoanalytic or psychodynamic component, and
(a) a link to neuroscientific or a neuropsychoanalytic body of thought; and/or
(b) an aspect that is explicitly neurobiological or neuropsychological, such as brain injury, pharmacological treatment, or neurophysiological, psychophysiological, or experimental psychology measures;
or
Presentations must be given in person.
Oral Presentations: These will be given in slots of 25 minutes, which could entail 20 min talk/5 min Q&A, or using the full slot for your presentation. Oral presentations are limited to one submission per lead author, and you may only present once in the parallel sessions (either one individual oral presentation or participation in one symposium). If your talk is accepted, but you have to withdraw at a later date, then your talk cannot be presented by someone else who is already presenting in the parallel sessions.
Symposia (duration 1.5 – 2 hours): These should have either 4 presenters, or 3 presenters and one discussant. Please note that any presenter may only be listed in one proposed symposium. All of the participants in the symposium must be named at the time of the submission; however, if a member of the proposed symposium has an individual oral presentation accepted and therefore withdraws from the symposium, then they can be replaced with a new symposium participant.
Please note: You are permitted to submit one oral presentation and be listed as a participant in one symposium. However, if both are accepted, you must choose whether to give an individual talk or participate in the symposium (and then either withdraw the talk ,or withdraw from the symposium).
Posters: There will be a prize for ‘Best Poster,’ selected by the Congress participants.
Abstracts are due by Thursday, January 7, 2027. Upon submission (below), you will receive a receipt and a reference number. If you do not receive confirmation, please check your spam folder, and then email support@npsa-association.org. Notification of acceptance status will be made by the beginning of March.
IMPORTANT: You cannot save an abstract submission and return to it later. The system does not auto-save as you work. You therefore are strongly encouraged to prepare your abstract and bio offline in a Word document, and copy and paste into this form, so you do not lose your work.