WPA World Congress 2017

Psychiatry of the 21st Century: Context, Controversies and Commitment

You can look forward to an excellent scientific programme with renowned speakers from all over the world. Under the theme “Psychiatry of the 21st Century: Context, Controversies and Commitment” the WPA XVII WORLD CONGRESS OF PSYCHIATRY will consider all relevant mental disorders and take a close look at current developments in prevention, diagnostics, therapy and rehabilitation.

This World Congress offers an ideal opportunity to take stock of the state of psychiatry in the early part of the 21st century and share the vision and future direction of exciting developments in the field. In addition to focussing on new developments in research and clinical practice the congress will consider the human rights of people with mental illnesses and the German tradition of psychopathology.

The scientific programme will appeal to both national and international professional audiences by offering numerous events in German in addition to its many English language offerings. The language of each event is indicated in the programme.

Main topics

  • Comorbidity of mental and physical diseases
  • Psychiatry and society
  • Prevention of mental illnesses and promotion of mental health
  • German tradition of psychopathology, psychopathology of new diseases worldwide, classification

Opening Ceremony
8 October 2017 | 17:30–18:30
followed by a Networking Reception

Closing Ceremony
12 October 2017 | 12:00–13:00

Activities

09.10.2017 | 13:30 – 15:00 | Room Lindau 3

S-073 What happens if we solve our world’s crisis with amygdala driven reactions?

Chair

Michael Sadre-Chirazi-Stark, Hamburg

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Co-Chair

Peter J. Verhagen, Harderwijk, Netherlands

Speaker

Roy Abraham Kallivayalil, Kerala, India

001 –What happens if we solve our world’s crisis with amygdala driven reactions – social psychiatry perspectives

Speaker

Sabine Koenig, Valluhn

002 –How does the juridical system respond to world’s crisis – a diagnosis

Speaker

Peter J. Verhagen, Harderwijk, Netherlands

003 –Religion and conflict – what can we learn from comparative religion?

Speaker

Solomon Rataemane, Pretoria, South Africa

004 –Amygdala anxieties post Apartheid in South Africa: analysis of stressors and fears generating social instability

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09.10.2017 | 13:30 – 15:00 | Hall Paris 2

S-062 Human rights abuses in psychiatry

Chair

Frank Schneider, Aachen

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Co-Chair

Sir Simon Wessely, London, United Kingdom

Speaker

Paul Weindling, Oxford, United Kingdom

001 –German and international responses to Nazi Euthanasia at the Nuremberg Trials

Speaker

Alan Rosen, Sydney, Australia

002 –Roles of our mental health professions in substandard psychiatric services and outcomes for Australian indigenous peoples

Speaker

Alexander Moreira-Almeida, Juiz de Fora, Brazil

003 –Case study of two misuses of psychiatry in 20th in Brazil: inhuman madhouses and “pathologization” of spiritual experiences

Speaker

Bernard Janse van Rensburg, Johannesburg, South Africa

004 –Processing of trauma and loss from conflicts and human right abuses through ceremony, rituals and commemoration

 

 

09.10.2017 | 15:15 – 16:45 | Room Weimar 3

S-092 Positive psychiatry and spirituality: pathways to well being

Chair

Alexander Moreira-Almeida, Juiz de Fora, Brazil

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Co-Chair

Dilip V. Jeste, La Jolla, USA

Speaker

Dilip V. Jeste, La Jolla, USA

001 –Positive psychiatry: more than just treating mental disorders

Speaker

Alexander Moreira-Almeida, Juiz de Fora, Brazil

002 –Spirituality and positive psychiatry

Speaker

Alison J. Gray, Hereford, United Kingdom

003 –Resilience, compassion, empathy and spirituality

Speaker

Avdesh Kumar Sharma, New Delhi, India

004 –Focusing on well-being: reducing burden on the community

 

10.10.2017 | 08:15 – 09:45 | Room Weimar 5

S-134 CAREIF Symposium 2: Putting psychiatric care into context: intercultural models and clinical practice

Chair

Shanaya Rathod, Southampton, United Kingdom

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Co-Chair

Diana Bass, London, United Kingdom

Speaker

Shanaya Rathod, Southampton, United Kingdom

001 –Cultural adaptation of interventions: possibilities and challenges

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Speaker

Jenny Willis, New Malden, United Kingdom

002 –Wellbeing: a personal and social responsibility

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Speaker

Diana Bass, London, United Kingdom

003 –Pride or prejudice? The role of ethnicity and culture in the mental health and professional development of medical students

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Speaker

Simon Dein, London, United Kingdom

004 –Religion and spirituality in psychiatric practice

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10.10.2017 | 10:00 – 11:30 | Room R2

S-043 (d) Spiritus contra Spiritum? Die Rolle der Spiritualität bei Suchterkrankungen

Chair

Jürgen Hoß, Gottfrieding

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Co-Chair

Human-Friedrich Unterrainer, Graz, Austria

Speaker

Frithjof Sahnwaldt,

001 –Spiritualität bei den Anonymen Alkoholikern aus der Sicht eines evangelischen Christen

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Speaker

Human-Friedrich Unterrainer, Graz, Austria

002 –Die Rolle der Spiritualität in der Behandlung von Suchterkrankungen

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Speaker

Andrew,

003 –Spiritualität und Religion aus der Sicht eines AA-Mitglieds – ein Erfahrungsbericht

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10.10.2017 | 11:45 – 13:45 | Hall Berlin 1

DF-03 (d) Existentielle Trauer – ein Trialog zwischen den Weltreligionen, Psychiatrie und Psychotherapie

Chair

Isgard Ohls, Hamburg

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Co-Chair

Michael Utsch, Berlin

Speaker

Ibrahim Rüschoff, Rüsselsheim

001 –Umgang mit Verlust und Trauer im Islam

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Speaker

Isgard Ohls, Hamburg

002 –Ars moriendi et vivendi: Trauer aus christlich-jüdischer Perspektive

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Hamid Peseschkian, Wiesbaden

003 –Der Mensch als Edelstein – die Perspektive der Bahai

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Speaker

Peter Kaiser, Stuttgart

004 –Die Perspektive der Konfessionslosen und Atheisten

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Speaker

Ulrike Anderssen-Reuster, Dresden

005 –Umgang mit Verlust und Trauer im Buddhismus

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10.10.2017 | 15:15 – 16:45 | Hall Helsinki 2

S-190 Religion, spirituality and clinical psychiatry: empirical studies

Chair

Arjan Braam, Utrecht, Netherlands

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Co-Chair

Simon L. Dein, London, United Kingdom

Speaker

Joke C. van Nieuw Amerongen-Meeuse, Utrecht, Netherlands

001 –Just nurses you know: patients’ needs of religion/spirituality (R/S) integration in complex mental health care

Speaker

Matthias Jongkind, Amersfoort, Netherlands

002 –Which dimensions of religion/spirituality are protective in suicidality? The association between suicidality and religion in depressed, religiously affiliated patients

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Angelien Steen, Utrecht/Amersfoort, Netherlands

003 –Meaning in life as a facet of personality functioning: a comparative quantitative approach employing Livesley’s adaptive failure model

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Arjan Braam, Utrecht, Netherlands

004 –Religious delusions in late life affective and non-affective psychosis: the association with (a strict) religious background and orthodoxy

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10.10.2017 | 15:15 – 16:45 | Hall New York 1

S-194 Cultural variations in the expression of symptoms

Chair

Cornelis J. Kees Laban, Beilen, Netherlands

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Co-Chair

Roberto Lewis-Fernandez, New York, USA

Speaker

Roberto Lewis-Fernandez, New York, USA

001 –Cultural concepts of distress and psychiatric disorders: a rose by any other name?

Speaker

Simon Groen, Beilen, Netherlands

002 –The impact of trauma and acculturation on personal lives of asylum seekers and refugees

Speaker

Geert Smid, Diemen, Netherlands

003 –Towards cultural assessment of grief and grief-related psychopathology

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Speaker

Simon Dein, London, United Kingdom

004 –The role of religion in the experience and expression of symptoms

 

 

11.10.2017 | 10:00 – 11:30 | Hall A2

S-240 Terrorism, religion and culture from a psychiatric perspective

Chair

Hussien Elkholy, Cairo, Egypt

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Co-Chair

Nahla Nagy, Heliopolis, Cairo, Egypt

Speaker

Nahla Nagy, Heliopolis, Cairo, Egypt

001 –Psychological aspects of religious terrorism

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Speaker

Norbert Konrad, Berlin

002 –Forensic psychiatric aspects of terrorism in Germany

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Speaker

Thomas Stompe, Vienna, Austria

003 –Socialization, radicalisation, terrorism

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Ekin Sönmez, Istanbul, Turkey

004 –Training in and for psychiatry # when times are bitter

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11.10.2017 | 10:00 – 11:30 | Room Dessau 6

S-254 WPA position statement in religion, spirituality and psychiatry: practical implications

Chair

Alexander Moreira-Almeida, Juiz de Fora, Brazil

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Co-Chair

Peter J. Verhagen, Harderwijk, Netherlands

Speaker

Alexander Moreira-Almeida, Juiz de Fora, Brazil

001 –Presentation of the position statement and its practical implications for research, education and clinical practice

Speaker

Peter J. Verhagen, Harderwijk, Netherlands

002 –Position statement on spirituality and religion in psychiatry: a matter of attitude

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Speaker

Christopher Cook, Durham, United Kingdom

003 –Impact of the WPA position statement on spirituality – religion in psychiatry

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Driss Moussaoui, Casablanca, Morocco

004 –Religious interpretation: a blessing or a curse in mental health – a practical application of the position statement

 

11.10.2017 | 10:00 – 11:30 | Room R13

S-257 Interprofessional collaborations and education between mental health and spiritual care professionals as a pathway for achieving high quality, person-centred care

Chair

Wai Lun Alan Fung, Toronto, Canada

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Co-Chair

Avdesh Kumar Sharma, New Delhi, India

Speaker

Wai Lun Alan Fung, Toronto, Canada

001 –Interprofessional collaborations and education between mental health and spiritual care professionals # why, what, when and how?

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Speaker

Avdesh Kumar Sharma, New Delhi, India

002 –Interfaith mental health alliance for holistic, cost effective, culturally sensitive health care delivery

Speaker

Sujatha Devanathan Sharma, New Delhi, India

003 –Practical spirituality for mental health issues: some key concepts and principles of Brahmakumaris Rajyoga lifestyle

Speaker

Alison J. Gray, Hereford, United Kingdom

004 –Stigma and stigmata: the intersection of spirituality, stigma and mental health discrimination

 

 

11.10.2017 | 15:15 – 16:45 | Room M8

S-313 Culture, religion and spirituality in the promotion of mental health and management of mental illnesses

Chair

Avdesh Kumar Sharma, New Delhi, India

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Co-Chair

Norman Sartorius, Geneva, Switzerland

Speaker

Avdesh Kumar Sharma, New Delhi, India

001 –Role of religion and spirituality in the promotion of mental health

Speaker

Alexander Moreira-Almeida, Juiz de Fora, Brazil

002 –Religion/spirituality as resource in the prevention and management of mental illnesses

Speaker

Paul Summergrad, Boston, MA, USA

003 –Intersection of spirituality and psychopharmacology – the new research on psychedelics

Speaker

Jair de Jesus Mari, Sao Paulo, Brazil

004 –Culture, commonly held beliefs and Cannabis use in adolescence

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11.10.2017 | 15:30 – 19:30 | Room Lindau 2

C-217 (e) Dealing with losses and existential questions from a (non)-religious perspective

Chair

Isgard Ohls, Hamburg

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Co-Chair

Peter Kaiser, Stuttgart

 

11.10.2017 | 17:00 – 18:30 | Room R5

OS-54 Ethics, religiosity and history

Chair

Michael Musalek, Wien, Austria

Co-Chair

Martin Heinze, Rüdersdorf

Speaker

Martina Andrea Hodel, Zurich, Switzerland

001 –The goals of care for patients suffering from severe persistent mental illness

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Speaker

Sukru Keles, Ankara, Turkey

002 –Ethical discourse of psychiatrists about sexual identity and sexual orientation

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Bruno Paz Mosqueiro, Porto Alegre, Brazil

003 –Religiosity and clinical outcomes of depressed inpatients in South Brazil

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Speaker

Thomas Mueller, Ravensburg

004 –The first public document on Nazi euthanasia in Germany – a French médecin-commandant, his encounter with German psychiatric hospital staff in Württemberg, 1945-46, and the consequences

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12.10.2017 | 08:15 – 09:45 | Hall A5

S-341 Implementing culturally sensitive psychiatric diagnostics in the Nordic countries

Chair

Roberto Lewis-Fernandez, New York, USA

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Co-Chair

Sigrid Helene Haug, Ottestad, Norway

Speaker

Sofie Bäärnhielm, Stockholm, Sweden

001 –Evaluating clinical use in Sweden of the DSM-5 Cultural Formulation Interview

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Valerie Demarinis, Stockholm, Sweden

002 –Evaluating feasibility and clinical utility of the DSM-5 Cultural Formulation Interview in complex rehabilitation treatment

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Sigrid Helene Haug, Ottestad, Norway

003 –Implementation of Cultural Formulation Interview in Norway – aim and scope with an emphasis on its recovery-oriented properties

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Signe Skammeritz, Ballerup, Denmark

004 –The use of the Cultural Formulation Interview in Denmark

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