Call for papers for a Transcultural Psychiatry Special Issue on Asylum seekers and Refugees The world has not seen so many refugees since WW II. According to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), the worldwide numbers of asylum seekers and refugees show an upward trend, reaching 50 million and above. Many studies report […]
Volume 9, Issue 2, September 2015 Outgoing Chair report Invitation to take part in WPA Action Plan Conference Reports Book Review Upcoming international conferences Educational courses
June 1 - 6 Integrative Approach to Understanding Complex Trauma: The Role of Culture and Other Contextual Denominators Due to industrial development, mass migrations, globalization, and information revolution the world has rapidly changed ever since. Nowadays, psychiatrists and psychologists in the western, industrialized world are on a regular basis facing patients whose cultural backgrounds are […]
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.
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 […]