Gold Trophy

Winner of the Young Researcher Award

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The Committee of the Board of the Transcultural Section of the World Psychiatric Association has agreed on the Winner of the Young Researcher Award. Regrettably, we needed some more time than expected.

In fact, there are two winners, of the ten manuscripts which were sent to us.
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San Diego

SSPC 2014 Annual Meeting

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Trauma, Recovery, and Culture

We will have a keynote lecture by Mark Micale, Professor of History at the University of Illinois, followed by our opening panel on the conference theme, moderated by Hendry Ton and featuring survivors of torture from three different cultures: Dr. Edie Eger, a Holocaust survivor who danced for Dr. Mengala in order to save her life, Nang Du, Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at UCSF who was imprisoned by the Pol Pot and John Kuek, a marriage and family therapist who is a survivor from South Sudan.

The 2014 annual meeting will be held May 15-17 at the Joan B. Kroc Institute for Peace and Justice, University of San Diego. The theme is Trauma, Recovery and Culture.

Shanghai

21st IFP World Congress of Psychotherapy

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Dear colleagues,

The International Federation for Psychotherapy (IFP) will hold the 21st IFP World Congress of Psychotherapy from May 9 -11, 2014, in Shanghai, China. The theme of this congress will be ‘Psychotherapy Contributing to Global Health’. All IFP members and all colleagues who are interested in psychotherapy are cordially welcome to attend this every-4-year gathering.
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International Transcultural Psychiatry Conference

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Dear Colleagues,

As a president of Emirates Psychiatric society, I’m delighted to invite you to the International Transcultural Psychiatry Conference (ITPC Dubai 2014) on April 3-5 in Dubai, UAE organized by the EMA Psychiatry Society in partnership with the World Association of Cultural Psychiatry and supported by the WPA Transcultural Society. This conference is planned with the objective of sharing and exchanging opinions, views and expertises about the relationship between culture and psychiatry.
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Gold Trophy

Young researcher award ended

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The term in which young researchers could apply for the Young Researcher Award of our Section has ended. Till now, there were enough submissions to make a right choice. The Board of the Section will start to read and rate all the submissions and will publish the result as soon as possible, before the end of 2013. Information about the procedure can be obtained from the Chair of the Section.

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New WPA-TPS Website

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As you can see the new WPA-TPS Website is on line. With a totally different new look and feel. There is also new functionality, like the ability to search the whole site.

All information from the old site is still there. New information will be added frequently so please return to this website regularly.

For WPA-TPS members there is added functionality and extra content. The webmaster apologizes for the inconvenience regarding the registration. Every thing is solved now and there will be no more denial 🙂

We hope you will find this website useful. Comments, also from non members, are always welcome.

Gdynia

First International Conference on Transcultural Psychiatry in Central European Countries

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April 24, 2015 – April 26, 2015

Invitation

In a rapidly changing world, psychiatry faces numerous challenges. In response to these rapid societal changes, psychiatry needs to be prepared to meet the challenges of migration, acculturative change and acculturative stressors. Transcultural psychiatry focuses on the study of all these phenomena. In a rapidly changing world, the culture of psychiatry itself is also changing, from a more medically constricted perspective to a more inclusive scientific approach integrating the perspectives of the social sciences and public policy along with medicine and its related clinical disciplines.
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