The conference, which was attended by professors from Isfahan University of Medical Sciences and the University of Marburg-Germany, and a number of physicians, psychologists and nurses, discussed various research activities and news on the treatment of psychiatric disorders. Also workshops on psycho-transformational aspects in the treatment of children and adolescents, drug therapy and emotion regulation, Balint group, emotional training and retraining in anxiety disorders, hypnotherapy and the use of hypnosis in the treatment of irritable bowel syndrome in the two days International Symposium on psychosomatic disorders held.