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International Summer Seminar
HEALERS &
DOCTORS IN THE ANDES
May 11-16, 2008
Otavalo, Ecuador
 This
is a unique international summer seminar designed for health
professionals, faculty and students interested in health issues and
healing practices of the Indigenous Peoples of the Andes.
Participants will have the opportunity to study the potential
collaboration between yachactaitas (Quichua-Inca healers) and
psychiatrists. This seminar is organized
and sponsored by Runajambi
(Institute for the Study of Quichua Culture and Health) and co-sponsored
by WPA-TPS.
New Issue
just released
WORLD HEALER Newsletter
We
are delighted to inform you that the December issue of the WPA-TPS
Newsletter has been published. You are invited to take a look at
its interesting new contents and features. Any comments are
welcomed. Please contact the editors by email.
HAPPY
NEW YEAR 2008
The
WPA-Transcultural Psychiatry Section wishes you happy New year. May
2008 bring you and yours peace and happiness, good health and
prosperity. Avec nos meilleurs voeux. Felices festividades.
Updated on August
9, See the Program!
WPA-TPS/SSPC/WACP
Joint Conference
Multicultural Dialogue in a Globalizing
World
Stockholm, Sweden, September 9-12, 2007. Are you
planning to participate in this meeting? Do you want to register or submit
your abstract? Please take a look
at the following documents:
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Official Program
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Meeting Announcement
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Meeting Registration Form
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Abstract Form
Updated on August
9, See the Program!
WPA-TPS
1st Congress of Transcultural Psychiatry in the German-Speaking World "On
Similarities and Differences."
University of Witten/Herdecke
Witten, Germany
September 6-9, 2007
Official program
Registration information and brochure
Updated 2nd
Announcement
JSTP/ WPA-TPS/WACP, MEETING PROGRAM
Kamakura, Japan, April 27-29, 2007
Welcome to the Joint meeting of
JSTP and WPA-TPS in Kamakura, 27-29 April 2007
The New Era of
Transcultural Psychiatry: Advancing Collaboration of East and West
On behalf of Japanese
Organizing Committee for this JSTP+WPA-TPS joint meeting, it is a great
pleasure to welcome you to Kamakura, Japan. The Organizing Committee is very
confident that you will find the scenic view and hospitality of Shonan
Village Center very appealing. You can attend the academic presentations of
the conference, as well as participate in tours of historic Kamakura, that
is called ‘little Kyoto’. The main purpose of our conference is to
encourage friendships and working relationships between East and West.
I expect many colleagues around
the world will be attracted by the location and the conference theme and
will be tempted to participate with us. We are eagerly waiting to
welcome you to Japan in April.
Fumitaka Noda, M.D.
Chair, Organizing committee JSTP-WPA-TPS joint meeting in Kamakura.
First Announcement
CONFERENCE on MULTICULTURAL DIALOGUE on PSYCHIATRY in a GLOBALIZING WORLD
Sun Sep 9 - Wed Sep 12, 2007
Stockholm, Sweden.
Conference co-sponsors
World Psychiatric Association-Transcultural Psychiatry Section; Society
for the Study of Psychiatry and Culture, and World Association of Cultural
Psychiatry
Conference venue
Ersta Sköndal University College,
Stockholm, the Royal Capital of Sweden and home of the Nobel Prize, is a
city of about 1.6 million residents. Stockholm is a city of
contrasts - water and islands, bridges and parks, history and innovation,
small town and big city. The climate in Stockholm is extremely varied and
every season has its particular charm. In September, summer turns into fall
as the leaves change from green to red, and the days become chilly as autumn
progresses. September temperatures range between
5 and 18 C ( 41 to 64 F ).
Ersta Sköndal University College was founded in 1998 through the merger
of the undergraduate, post-graduate and research programmes of the Ersta
Society for Diaconal Work and The Stora Sköndal Foundation. The University
College has two campuses, one at Ersta, the other at Stora Sköndal, with a
total of approximately 1000 students.
Conference Organizing Committee
James Boehnlein MD, President, Society for the Study of Psychiatry and
Culture
Ronald Wintrob MD, Chair, World Psychiatric Association-Transcultural
Psychiatry Section
Jan-Håkan Hansson PhD, Vice-Chancellor, Ersta Sköndal University
College
Riyadh Al-Baldawi MD, PhD, Medical Director, Orient Center, Stockholm
Jonas Alwall PhD, Head, Dept of Social Work, Ersta Sköndal University
College
Hotel Accommodation
The conference Organizing Committee is arranging with several hotels in
Stockholm, ranging from 3-star to 5-star categories,
to set aside a block of rooms for those conference participants who complete
registration procedures by the early registration deadline; May 31,
2007. The conference Organizing Committee cannot guarantee that accommodation at the selected hotels will be available for
those conference participants who complete registration procedures after May
31, 2007
For further up-to-date information about the conference
For more information about the co-sponsoring organizations, see the
following websites:
www.psychiatryandculture.org
www.waculturalpsychiatry.org
We
are enthusiastically launching a new website section called Members'
Scholarly Activities. The aim is to provide a "global
virtual" location for members of the TP Section to share and exchange
the results of their scholarly work with colleagues from around the world.
We hope you will take advantage of this new service offered by the WPA
-Transcultural Psychiatry Section.
Inaugural
Issue
WORLD HEALER, the Newsletter of the WPA - Transcultural Psychiatry
Section
Since Sep 2005, when the new
executive committee of the Transcultural Psychiatry Section came into
office, we have been working to establish the Section’s website, and
to publish the Section’s quarterly World Healer Newsletter on the website. Now
that the website has been established, we are ready to launch the
first issue of our electronic Newsletter. The Newsletter’s Editor
for the period 2006-2008 is Fumitaka Noda MD PhD, and it’s Associate
Editor is Mario Incayawar MD MSc.
The executive committee of the Section and the Newsletter's editorial staff welcome your comments. Please send your
comments on the World Healer Newsletter and suggestions to Dr. Fumitaka Noda 
Transcultural
Psychiatry Content Expands at the 28th Congress of Nordic Psychiatric
Associations
The
28th Nordic Congress of Psychiatry will take place in
Tampere, Finland, 16-19 August 2006. The general theme is "New Tools
for Clinical Practice." The program will be entirely in English. The
Scientific Program of this 28th Nordic Congress includes, for the first time
five consecutive symposia devoted to topics in transcultural
psychiatry. They are:
1.
Transcultural tools for clinical practice
2. Transcultural psychiatric research in Nordic countries
3. Scandinavian cooperation with developing countries
4. Mental health of ethnic minorities - new and old
5. Further views on culture and mental health
These
five symposia, comprising an integral part of the scientific
program of the Congress of Nordic Psychiatric Associations will offer a
great opportunity to increase the visibility of transcultural psychiatry and
encourage research collaboration and networking on the subject in the Nordic
countries. The
titles and authors of the presentations in each symposium, and other details
of the Congress are available in the Congress website.
For more information contact Antti
Pakaslahti, M.D., Transcultural
Program Co-ordinator
A fascinating
film!
Movements and Madness
Shot over the course of 8 years, Movements and Madness is an hour-long
documentary following the life of Gusti Ayu, a young Balinese woman
suffering from severe Tourette’s syndrome, a neuropsychiatric illness
which causes chronic, uncontrollable movements, sounds, and
compulsions. Conducting research on mental disorders in Bali, UCLA
anthropologist Robert Lemelson encounters Gusti while doing rounds with a
local psychiatrist. Eventually finding himself entangled in their
increasingly polarized debates over her condition, Robert is forced to
rethink his role as a detached observer, becoming personally involved in
helping Gusti gain understanding and acceptance from those around her, as
well as the chance to shape her own destiny. A truly wonderful, touching and
compassionate film. Many academicians could find it useful as a tool
for teaching transcultural psychiatry.
Annual
Advanced Study Institute in Cultural Psychiatry
"Refugees
and Forced Migration: Human Rights
and Mental Health Services"
June 1 & 2, 2006
Recent years have seen
profound changes in the situation of refugees and displaced peoples.
While the number of people enduring forced migration has increased,
receiving countries have become more restrictive. Anxieties about
security and social integration have been used to justify more
restrictive policies and harsh treatment of people seeking asylum.
This conference will examine mental health issues of asylum seekers,
refugees and internally displaced peoples as well as the impact of
human trafficking.
McGill University, Division of Social & Transcultural Psychiatry,
Montreal, Canada,
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