At a glance
A psychological approach to spaces: influences, interactions and transformations
A one-day conference on places as a clinical resource: space in therapy, the places of the relationship in couples work, experience mapping and home-based support. It was held in person in Paris; this is the full recording of the day.
The theme
Space is an often underestimated, even unthought, dimension of therapy. Yet from childhood onwards, our relationship to the world is shaped by the places we inhabit, pass through or avoid. This day brings geography, architecture and topography into psychological and social support, and approaches places as a resource across different settings: the consulting room, the couple, the family, the home.
Three experienced clinicians share their theoretical landmarks, their tools and their clinical vignettes. Gilbert Pregno guides the day as moderator, and each talk is followed by a discussion with the audience.
The question of the day
What do the places of a person, a couple or a family tell us, and how can they become a lever for change?
The replay programme
Each key moment is a chapter of the video player. The timestamps show where it starts in the replay. Talk titles are translated; the talks are in French.
Morning Moderator: Gilbert Pregno
Gilbert Pregno
Maurizio Frisina
An interactive walk between theory and practice. Can the identity of a person or a couple be thought of as a set of places over time? How does a symptom change the way we occupy space? What effects do access to nature and movement have on therapy?
Theoretical notions and clinical tools, such as the map of places, help to rethink the environment as a clinical lever, even as a co-therapist: a support that helps patients regain the desire to explore, to play and to create spaces in which to rebuild themselves.
With Julien Besse, author of one of its chapters
Ivy Daure
The double meaning of the word place, physical and metaphorical, opens new perspectives in clinical work with couples: the places of the relationship help to read what acts as a symptom and what acts as a resource.
With couples, or in individual therapies that deal with the couple, the aim is to explore these new territories, which bring new ways of relating and discoveries about the other and oneself. Physical and metaphorical places become a tool for working with couples.
Gilbert Pregno
Afternoon Resumes at 3:24:35
Viola Sallay
An overview of the experience mapping procedure in individual, couple and family therapy. Rooted in environmental psychology, social ecology, attachment theory and family systems thinking, it links emotional self-regulation, relational regulation and family dynamics within the home.
A collaborative visual tool and a “floating object”, the mapping fosters partnership-based therapeutic alliances and gives a voice to the most vulnerable members. Clinical vignettes show how stories of the family home reach back to previous generations, and how the mapping can be combined with the genogram.
Ivy Daure
For many professionals in health and social care, supporting people and their families in their own homes is part of the job. Going into the home is much more than moving the therapeutic frame: it means working with other rules and other places, set partly by the context and by the host of the house.
The frame is reinvented with the person and their environment. The dynamics of the home, and professionals on the move, help us think about resources differently.
Gilbert Pregno
Ivy Daure
The audience looks back on the day using the cards of the Amour Monstre game. Discover the Amour Monstre course
Before parting, the audience gets up and dances.
The speakers
Clinical psychologist, PhD in psychology · Bordeaux
A lecturer at the University of Bordeaux, she has written many articles and books, including Le couple est un lieu. Quand l’analyse des lieux raconte le couple (The couple is a place, ESF, 2022). She designed and organised this day, at which she gives two talks.
Psychologist and psychotherapist · Brussels
Specialising in the treatment of addictions at the La Ramée – Epsylon clinic, he trains professionals in Belgium, Italy, Switzerland and France. He has written many articles and books, including L’espace en thérapie (Space in therapy, ESF, 2025).
PhD, university professor · Paris and Szeged
Professor at the Sigmund Freud Private University in Paris and associate professor at the Institute of Psychology of the University of Szeged, Hungary. Clinical psychologist, systemic psychotherapist, trainer and supervisor.
Moderator of the day · Luxembourg
Psychologist, family psychotherapist, trainer in family therapy and the systemic approach. Chair of the Luxembourg Consultative Commission on Human Rights from 2014 to 2024, he is a speaker and the author of many articles.
With Julien Besse, who presents the book La pratique systémique en visio.
What you will take away
Audience
For helping professionals, practising or in training, who want to bring the dimension of place into their practice and who understand French.
The format
The conference was held on Friday 16 October 2026 in Paris (11th arrondissement), in front of an audience of professionals gathered for the day. The talks, the questions from the floor and the discussions were filmed.
16 October 2026 · ParisThe full recording of the day, edited (breaks and idle moments removed) and divided into 17 chapters. You watch it online, from your account, whenever you like. In French.
Video replay · 6 h 26 min
Replay available
Access includes the full recording of the conference held on 16 October 2026.
Online replay in French · access after purchase, from your account
Frequently asked questions
Can I still attend the conference?
No: the day took place in person in Paris on Friday 16 October 2026. This page gives access to its replay. There is no date to book and no live session.
Is the replay complete?
All the talks and discussions with the audience are included. Only breaks, silences and moments without picture were removed during editing. The short welcome at 9 am was not filmed.
In which language is the replay?
In French. The talks and discussions are not subtitled.
How do I navigate the video?
The player offers 17 chapters: you can jump from one talk to another, pause, and come back to the passages that interest you.
Who organised this conference?
The day was organised by Ivy Daure (clinical psychology & training), in partnership with the publisher ESF Sciences humaines. Complexe Systémique distributes the replay. Original programme (in French): ivydaure.com/colloque.
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