WORLD PSYCHIATRIC ASSOCIATION
Transcultural
Psychiatry Section

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Runajambi - Institute for the Study of Quichua Culture & Health

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PSYCHIATRISTS AND HEALERS: UNWITTING PARTNERS
A Challenge for Transcultural Psychiatry in Times of Globalization

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MAY 18-21, 2005, QUITO, ECUADOR

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PROGRAM
Day 2

Thursday, May 19, 2005
Raffles II, Swissôtel Quito

 
9:00-9:45 AM

Legitimacy and Traditional Indian Healing
Jeffrey A. Henderson, M.D., M.P.H., & Spero M. Manson, Ph.D. President & CEO, Black Hills Center for American Indian Health Rapid City, South Dakota, USA.

9:45-10:30 AM

A Western Psychiatrists Among the Shuar People of Ecuador
Joan Obiols-Llandrich , M.D.
Mental Health Services, SAAS
Andorra

10:30-11:15 AM COFFEE BREAK
11:15-12:00 AM

Bringing Together Traditional and Western Medicine:  A University Initiative
Dan Lamla Mkize,  MB ChB, DCH (SA),MFGP (SA), DFM (SA), M Med (Psych) (Natal).
Professor of Psychiatry, Univeristy of KwaZulu-Natal
Durban, South Africa

12:15-2:00 PM LUNCH
2:15-3:00 PM

Traditional Versus Formal Approaches to Doctor-Patient Relationships in Psychiatry
Vijoy K. Varma, M.D.
Professor of Psychiatry, Columbia University, New York, USA, Indiana University, Indianapolis, USA, and Postgraduate Medical Institute (Retired), Chandigarh, India

3:00-3:45
PM

Author-Attended Poster Session

Healers' Medicinal Knowledge: The Need for Culturally Adapted Patent Criteria
Sioui Maldonado Bouchard, B.Sc. (psychology in completion) McGill University, Montreal, Canada.

3:45-4:15 PM COFFEE BREAK
4:15-5:00 PM

Quichua Healing Demonstration
Jose Maria Montalvo, Yachac (Quichua Healer)
Otavalo


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