Art and Psychiatry
The Special Interest Group on Art and Psychiatry, in collaboration with the Groupe Hospitalier Universitaire Paris, organized another Online Meeting on June the 4th, 2025, 2.00 PM Central European Time, on the application of Art in Psychiatry with two excellent speakers, i.e., Vitor Pordeus (Founder, Dyonises Theater Clinic, People’s University for Art and Science, Rio […]
Art and Psychiatry
The Special Interest Group on Art and Psychiatry, in collaboration with the Groupe Hospitalier Universitaire Paris, organized an online meeting on Wednesday, April 30, 2025, at 2:00 PM Central European Time, featuring three distinguished speakers. Tom Theeuwen, Curator of the Museum of the Mind in the Netherlands, who examined the historical application of visual art […]
Art and Psychiatry
The Special Interest Group on Art and Psychiatry, in collaboration with the Groupe Hospitalier Universitaire Paris, held an additional online meeting on Wednesday, March 26, 2025, at 1:00 PM Central European Time, dedicated to research methodologies in art and mental health. This session featured Julia Martin, Mental Health General Director in Berazategui, Buenos Aires, and […]
Therapy & Faith: Insider and Outsider Perspectives
The Family and Culture Special Interest Group, co-chaired by Vincenzo Di Nicola and Riyadh Al-Baldawi, hosted a webinar titled “Insider/Outsider Perspectives on Religious/Spiritual Beliefs on Therapeutic Process,” on December 3, 2022, at 11:00 AM Eastern Time, focusing on the complex therapeutic intersections where families’ lived spiritual and religious experiences diverge from conventional professional formulations. The […]
Virtual Work Meeting of Family and Culture SIG
The Family & Culture Special Interest Group of the World Association of Cultural Psychiatry (WACP) held a virtual work meeting on June 11, 2022 at 1 PM EDT. It was Co-chairs by Vincenzo Di Nicola & Riyadh Al-Baldawi. The meeting aimed at shaping its future program of events, drawing on participants’ clinical expertise and experiences […]
Family, Culture & Psychosis
On April 2, 2022, the Family and Culture Special Interest Group, co-chaired by Vincenzo Di Nicola and Riyadh Al-Baldawi, hosted a Townhall Discussion titled “Culture, Families & Psychosis,” which examined whether family involvement in psychosis treatment should be adapted to cultural backgrounds and, if so, how. The session featured an introduction by Roberto Lewis-Fernández, a […]
Covid-19 & Vulnerable Populations: Official Statement
From the Special Interest Group on Coronavirus of the World Association of Cultural Psychiatry 09/06/2020Since the COVID-19 virus first manifested, in the last days of 2019 and the first months of 2020, numerous countries have taken measures at the level of national governments, states or provinces, or cities to lower the spread of infection in […]