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It is time for logotherapy to speak clearly, and in Bulgarian. Here we are making a place for hope, support and meaning.

You will find both accessible articles for anyone searching for meaning in everyday life, and in-depth academic publications and studies.

Publications

10 publications

Event

23–26 September 2026 · Chicago, USA · “Embracing Hope”

XXV World Congress of Logotherapy — Chicago

The twenty-fifth, jubilee World Congress of Logotherapy brought practitioners, educators, researchers and students from around the world to Chicago around a single question: how far Viktor Frankl's work still holds today. Four days of plenary lectures, workshops, research presentations and conversations on how meaning, responsibility, freedom and hope enter clinical practice, education, healthcare and everyday life.

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Event

13–14 June 2026 · Sofia · “Psychotherapy in the Age of Post-Truth. Ethics and Standards”

XIV National Conference of the Bulgarian Association for Psychotherapy

The XIV National Conference of the Bulgarian Association for Psychotherapy — two days in which psychotherapists of every modality in the country discussed the same question: what it means to work with integrity at a time when truth has become a matter of point of view.

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Event

16 March 2026 · Joy Station, Sofia

NEXT ARTISTS

A workshop and interview with the young performers of NEXT ARTISTS and their parents, on the theme “When the stage is light and words wound: how to stay steady”. Preparing for the stage begins with preparing the heart. Care for self-worth, identity, mental health and meaning is what makes a person resilient. When criticism is aimed at us, it means we have been brave enough to be visible — it is part of an artist's path.

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Research paper

2026 · Submitted for proceedings

Meaning and Faith: Logotherapy as a Bridge Between Psychotherapy and Pastoral Care

An examination of logotherapy and pastoral care, the role of faith, and the boundaries between professional roles.

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Event

20–22 October 2025 · Antalya, Türkiye

V World Congress of Logotherapy “Pax Logos”

Every few years logotherapists from across the world gather in one place. In October 2025 that place was Antalya — the Fifth World Congress of Logotherapy, “Pax Logos”, with participants from twenty-five countries.

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Event

31 May – 1 June 2025 · Sofia

XIII National Conference of the Bulgarian Association for Psychotherapy

The XIII National Conference of the Bulgarian Association for Psychotherapy was devoted to ethics in the therapeutic process — to what we owe the person in front of us, and where the limit of professional responsibility lies. Two days of exchange between colleagues from the different therapeutic modalities, opened with an online address by Dr Catalin Zaharia, vice-president of the European Association for Psychotherapy.

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Research publication

2025 · Published paper

Logotherapy – Psychotherapy of Dignity Directed Toward the Other, Suitable for Suffering People

The author explores Viktor Frankl’s logotherapy through dignity, meaning, and orientation towards another person.

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Event

2025 · BNR

Faith, mental health and human experience

A conversation with Kameliya Slavcheva and Maria Ivanova on BNR’s “Satvorenieto”.

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Research publication

2024 · Published article

Universality, Altruism and Belonging – Key Factors in Group Therapy

Dr Kameliya Slavcheva explores shared experience, mutual support and a sense of belonging in group work.

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Doctoral thesis abstract

2012 · NBU research archive

Human Rights: Church-Law Aspects — Doctoral Thesis Abstract

The abstract of Kameliya Slavcheva’s doctoral thesis. NBU’s research archive catalogues it under 2012; her biography dates the Sofia University doctorate to 2013.

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