"Sharing experiences in transcultural settings and practices throughout Europe in the field of health and mental health" The WPA Section on Transcultural Psychiatry (WPA-TPS) has succeeded in joining Northern and Southern Europe by holding a joint conference with the DTPPP. The conference title is “Sharing experiences in transcultural settings and practices throughout Europe in the field of health and mental health” and will be held on 9-10 February 2013 in Hamm, Germany. The main language for the conference is English.…

"Shame and Silence : Understanding the Stigma of Mental Illness" This year we have two co-sponsors, the University of Toronto and the Hong Fook Mental Health Association. The first day of this year's meeting will be a joint session with Hong Fook, an organization that works with Asian communities in the Toronto metropolitan area to keep people mentally healthy and manage mental illness from recovery to wellness through promotion and prevention, treatment, capacity building and advocacy. The opening keynote speaker…

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. Emirates Psychiatry Society believes that Dubai is…

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…

INVITATION Europe is experiencing one of the most significant influxes of migrants and refugees in its history. Pushed by civil war and terror and pulled by the promise of a better life, hundreds of thousands of people have fled the Middle East and Africa, risking their lives along the way. More than a million migrants and refugees crossed into Europe in 2015, sparking a crisis as countries struggle to cope with the influx, and creating division in the EU over…