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Joint PRCP & WACP: Tokyo Congress 2025
The Joint PRCP & WACP Congress was held in Tokyo, Japan, from 25th to 28th September 2025. is now available. The programme included 119 symposia, 337 oral and poster presentations, 10 educational lectures and 4 plenary sessions. A total of...
Maps & Territory with a Gender Perspective in Mexican Culture
The Family and Culture Special Interest Group hosted a specialized webinar, entitled “Maps and Territory with a Gender Perspective in Mexican Culture,” focusing on an in-depth clinical case presentation in couple therapy, on June 26, 2025. The session was structured...
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...
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...
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...
Impact of COVID-19 and Lockdowns on Adolescent
Wednesday, March the 26th, 2025, 1.00 pm Central European Time Three members of the Special Interest Group on COVID-19 (Mao-Sheng Ran, Yunyu Xiao, Hans Rohlof) have edited a Volume of the Frontiers in Psychiatry Edition with 8 articles on this...
Paris Declaration on Art and its Benefits in Mental Health & Psychiatry
The declaration emphasizes that art addresses everyone without exception, producing subjective yet tangible changes in individuals while fostering social bonds and communion, and it recognizes museums and cultural institutions as vital partners in destigmatizing mental illness. The signatories note that...
International Conference on “Cultural Psychiatry & Art”
After the unfortunate cancellation of the inaugural International Conference in Shanghai due to COVID-19, the first International Conference was held in Paris on September 19–20, 2024, under the theme "Cultural Psychiatry & Art" Co-organized with the GHU Paris Psychiatry &...
Newsletter
A newsletter is published online showcasing recent news & events organized by SIGs. It also includes the complete program of the International conference on “Art and its Benefits in Mental Health and Psychiatry” in Paris; and the first announcement for...
New Editor-in Chief of Transcultural Psychiatry
After 32 years of active service and immense contribution to building the foundation of Cultural Psychiatry as Editor-in-Chief of Transcultural Psychiatry, Prof. Laurence Kirmayer has stepped down. We wish his successor Dr. G. Eric Jarvis all the best in his...
Distinguished Psychiatrist Lecture on APA’s Presidential invitation
Distinguished Psychiatrist Lecture on APA’s Presidential invitation, Former WACP Officer and Secretary, Prof. Dr. Renato Alarcon (Emeritus professor of Psychiatry at the Mayo Clinic College of Medicine), will deliver the prestigious Distinguished Psychiatrist Lecture by Presidential invitation during the next...
Newsletter
A newsletter is published online showcasing recent news & events organized by SIGs. It also includes the first call for the International conference on “Art and its Benefits in Mental Health and Psychiatry” in Paris; and the date announcement for...