WORLD PSYCHIATRIC ASSOCIATION
Transcultural
Psychiatry Section

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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

Program    Day 1 w Day 2 w Day 3 w Day 4 

 

 

PROGRAM
Day 3

Friday, May 20, 2005
Raffles II, Swissôtel Quito

 
9:00-9:45 AM

A Cross-Cultural Review of the Psychiatric Service and Mental Health Issues in the Province of BINH DIN, Vietnam, with Special Reference to Religious Beliefs and Traditional Healing
Charles Whan MBBCh BAO, Dip Obst, JCTG, FRANZCP Consultant Psychiatrist and Senior Clinical Lecturer, Canterbury Health Board
New Zealand.
Kate Gibson, Senior Psychiatric Nurse  

9:45-10:30 AM

Trauma Recovery in War-Torn Africa:  Incorporating Traditional Healing in Psychosocial Recovery Programs
Leslie Snider, M.D., M.P.H.
Department of International Health and Development
Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine
Louisiana, New Orleans, USA

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

Non-Pharmacological Approaches to the Treatment of Neurotic and Psychosomatic Disorders (workshop)
Vijoy K. Varma, M.D.
Professor of Psychiatry, Columbia University, New York, USA, Indiana University, Indianapolis, USA, and Postgraduate Medical Institute (Retired), Chandigarh, India

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

Psychotherapy or Religious Healing? The “Therapeutic” Cult of Charismatic Catholics in Italy
Micol Ascoli, M.D.
Consultant Psychiatrist, East London and the City Mental Health NSH Trust
London, UK 

3:00-3:45
PM

Toward Multiculturalism; Is Bi-National Identity Possible? Ronald Wintrob, M.D.
Brown University
Providence, Rhode Island, USA.

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

Why Indigenous Healers Should Collaborate with Psychiatrists in the Americas?
Mario Incayawar, M.D., M.Sc.
Director Runajambi (Institute for the Study of Quichua Culture and Health), Otavalo, Ecuador
Former Henry R. Luce Professor in Brain, Mind, and Medicine, Claremont Colleges, California.


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