World Healer

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

Volume 9, Issue 1, July 2014

• Editor’s Report
• TPS Chair’s Report
• Conference Reports
• Book Report
• Upcoming Conferences & Course

Volume 8, Issue 1, December 2013

• Editor’s Report
• TPS Chair’s Report
• Young Researcher Award
• Welcome Speech: Hamm
• Conference Report: Hamm
• Symposiums Report: Vienna
• Upcoming conferences
• Book reviews
• Educational Programs

Volume 7, Issue 2, December 2012

• TPS Chair’s Report
• Editor’s Report
• Conference Report: Prague
• Conference Report: Tel Aviv
• Minutes of WPA-TPS Meetings
• Symposium in Amsterdam in honor of Prof Joop de Jong
• Ray Prince In Memoriam
• Book Report
• Upcoming Conferences

Volume 7, Issue 1, August 2012

• TPS Chair’s Report
• WPA-TPS Action Plan
• Editor’s Report
• WACP Conference Report
• In memoriam to Wen-Shing Tseng
• Upcoming International
• Conferences
• Courses

Volume 6, Issue 2, November 2011

• TPS Chair’s Report
• A Note from the Editors
• Book Abstract by Dr. Riyadh Al-Baldawi
• Upcoming International Conferences
• In Memoriam Tribute to Marco Scarpinati Rosso
• Courses

Volume 6, Issue 1, July 2011

• TPS Chair’s Report
• A Note from the Editors
• Conference Reports
  • Barcelona
  • Paris
  • Dusseldorf
• Upcoming International
• Conferences
• Courses

Volume 5, Issue 2, December 2010

• TPS Chair’s Report
• A Note from the Editors
• Conference Report : Amsterdam
• Upcoming International Conferences
• Pr Jilek Reflections
• Biosketches
• Courses

Volume 5, Issue 1, July 2010

• TPS Chair’s Report
• A Note from the Editors
• Upcoming WPA-TPS Barcelona
• Congress
• Upcoming DTPPP Conference
• Report on Shanghai Conference
• Upcoming Argentina Conference
• Upcoming Paris Conference
• Pr David Kinzie’s Book Reviews
• MSc at Barts on Transcultural
• Mental Healthcare
• MSc at UCL
• Wholeperson Healthcare course at Gloucester
• TPS

Volume 4, Issue 2, November 2009

• 2nd World Congress
• Link with Transcultural Psychiatry
• In this Edition
• Chronic Fatigue and Ethnicity
• WPA Demoralization Cancer Grant
• Cultural Formulation Research
• New Member Symposium
• Meet Our New Members
• Dr. Kinzie’s Book Notes
• Research in Israel
• Future International Conferences
• Courses in Cultural Psychiatry

Volume 4, Issue 1, May 2009

• WPA International Congress
• Link with Transcultural Psychiatry
• In this Edition
• Abstracts from TPS Symposium
• Dr. Kinzie’s Book Notes
• Meet our Members
• fMRI Study on Empathy
• Pacific Rim College Meeting
• Future International Conferences
• Courses in Cultural Psychiatry

Volume 3, Number 6, December 2008

• TPS Chair’s Report on WPA Congress Prague
• TPS Symposium abstracts/Prague
  • Immigration/Terrorism
  • Intermarriage
  • Jewish Culture
  • TP in Europe
• DTPPP Report
• Bio-Sketch : Micol Ascoli
• Bio-Sketch : John De Figueiredo
• Kinzie ‘Reading Notes
• TPS Chair’s welcome to 2nd World Congress of Cultural Psychiatry
• CPNN, Nordic Network for Cultural
• Psychology and Psychiatry

Volume 3, Number 5, July 2008

• Introduction for WPA-TPS Section; In Memoriam
• A Tribute to Alex Friedmann
• Motivating Deeds after the Trauma
• Bio-sketches of TPS Committee members
  • Alexander Friedmann, MD
  • Solmaz Golsabahi, MD
  • Soma Ganesan, MD
  • Henrik Wahlberg, MD
• Report on the WPA-TPS co-sponsored GLADET conference Guadalajara, Mexico 17-20 Apr 2008

Volume 2, Number 4, December 2007

• Report on the Stockholm Conference; 9-12 Sep 2007
• 1st International Conference of Transcultural Psychiatry in the German-speaking Countries; On similarities and differences Witten, Germany 6-9 Sep 2007
• Biosketches
  • Prof. Mohamed Fakhr El-Islam
  • Riyadh Al-Baldawi, M.D., Ph.D
  • Morton (Morley) Beiser, M.D
  • Francis G. Lu, M.D
  • Afzal Javed, M.D
  • Prof. Dr. Wielant Machleidt
• Synopsis of “Spirituality and Health”
• INTERNATIONAL SUMMER SEMINAR: HEALERS AND DOCTORS IN THE ANDES
  • New Program in Transcultural Psychiatry

Volume 2, Number 3, July 2007

• Message from the WPA-TPS Newsletter Editor
• Report of JSTP+WPATPS+WACP Joint Meeting in Kamakura, Japan; April 2007
• Conference Report; Mental health of the Maghrebian Patient
• Bio-sketches of TPSCommittee members
  • Dan Lamla Mkize, M.D.
  • Frank Kortmann, M.D., Ph.D.
  • Joseba Achotegui Loizate, M.D., Ph.D.
  • J. David Kinzie, M.D.
  • Kees J. Laban, M.D.
  • Lawrence G. Wilson M.D.
  • Samuel O. Opaku, M.D., Ph.D.
  • Simon Dein M.D., Ph.D.
• Stockholm in September; report of a planning visit, 16-22 June 2007

Volume 1, Number 2, October 2006

• Message from the WPA-TPS Newsletter Editor
• The Transcultural Psychiatry Section of the World Psychiatric Association, 1971 – 200
• Bio-sketches of Section members
  • Kamaldeep Bhui MD (U.K.)
  • Wolfgang G. Jilek MD (Canada)
  • Marianne C Kastrup MD (Denmark)
  • Laurence J. Kirmayer MD (Canada)
  • Antti Pakaslahti MD, PhD (Finland)
  • Palmira Rudaleviciene MD (Lithuania)
  • Hans Rohlof MD (Netherlands)
  • Thomas Stompe MD (Austria)
  • Sergio Javier Villasenor Bayardo MD (Mexico)
  • Joseph Westermeyer MD (U.S.A)
• Division of Social and Transcultural Psychiatry Department of Psychiatry McGill University Montreal, Quebec, Canada
• conference in Kamakura
• Report of Nordic Psychiatric Conference
• Announcement of Japanese Society of Transcultural Psychiatry (JSTP) , WPA-TPS and World Association of Cultural Psychiatry (WACP) joint meeting in Kamakura, Japan; 27-29 April 2007

Volume 1, Number 1, April 2006

• Message from the chair; WPA-Transcultural Psychiatry Section
• Message from the WPA-TPS Newsletter Editor
• Message from the WPA-TPS Newsletter Associate Editor
• Reflections on my six years as chair of the WPA-Transcultural Psychiatry Section
• Bio-sketches of TPS Committee members
  • Ronald Wintrob MD (USA)
  • Fumitaka Noda MD, PhD (Japan)
  • Joan Obiols-Llandrich MD, PhD (Andorra)
  • Rachid Bennegadi MD (France)
  • Mario Incayawar MD, MSc (Ecuador)
  • Sushrut Jadhav MD, PhD (UK)
  • Mitchell Weiss MD, PhD (Switzerland)
  • Xudong Zhao MD, PhD (China)
  • Goffredo Bartocci MD (Italy)
• Report on the TP Content; XIII World Congress of Psychiatry, Cairo, 10-15 Sep 2005
• TP Section Symposium Quito 2005 Psychiatrists and Healers: Unwitting Partners