these include University of Oslo (2000); Keio University (2000); Dartmouth Medical School (2001); University of Hong Kong (2001); Mess Gen Hospital (2002); Boulder Colorado (2003); Aarhus University, Denmark (2001, 2004); Stanford University (2005); University of Milan (2005); Alice Barber lecture University of Melbourn (2006); World Congress of Psychiatric Rehabilitation, Athens (2006); Italian society for psychopathology Naples (2005); Rome (2006).