1ST INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON CULTURAL PSYCHIATRY
IN THE FRENCH SPEAKING WORLD
« MIGRATION CHALLENGES AND MENTAL HEALTH»
18 - 20 APRIL 2011
PARIS, FRANCE
Georges Pompidou European Hospital, 20 rue Leblanc 75015, Paris
MONDAY 18 APRIL 2011
08h00 - 09h00 : Registration
09h00 - 10h00 : WELCOMING COMMENTS
- Pr Ron WINTROB, Chair WPA-TPS (World Psychiatric Association - Transcultural
Psychiatry Section), and Conference Co-Chair, USA
- Christophe PARIS, General Executive Director Françoise Minkowska Centre, France
- Pr Driss MOUSSAOUI, Chair of the W.A.S.P. (World Association for Social Psychiatry),
Morocco
- Jacqueline WEEKERS, Senior Migrant Health Officer, World Health Organisation,
Switzerland
- Dr Davide MOSCA, Director , Migration Health Division, International Organization
for Migration, Switzerland
- Pr Helen HERRMAN, Secretary for Publications for the WPA (World Psychiatric
Association), Professor of Psychiatry at Orygen Youth Health Research Centre
(OYHRC), Australia
- Dr Rachid BENNEGADI, Secretary WPA-TPS (World Psychiatric Association -
Transcultural Psychiatry Section), Director of the Teaching, Studies and Research
Department, Françoise Minkowska Centre, France and Conference Co-Chair, France
10h00 - 10h30 : CONFERENCE OPENING :
Mental Health and Migration
Pr Norman SARTORIUS, President of the Association for the Improvement of Mental
Health Programmes, Switzerland
10h30 - 11h00 : Break & Poster Session
Plenary Session Chair : Pr Norman SARTORIUS
11h00-11h45 : PLENARY SESSION 1
Gender and Global Mental Health
Dr Marianne KASTRUP, Head of the Centre for Transcultural Psychiatry, Copenhagen
University Hospital, Denmark
11h45 - 12h30 : PLENARY SESSION 2
Education and Training in Cultural Psychiatry : American Perspectives
Dr Jim BOEHNLEIN, Chair SSPC (Society for the Study of Psychiatry and Culture), USA
12h30 - 14h00 : Lunch
12h30 - 14h00 : Euromed General Assembly
14h00 - 15h30 : SIMULTANEOUS SYMPOSIA
Symposium 1 - WACP (World Association for Cultural Psychiatry)
Neuroscience, Psychiatry and Culture
Chair : Pr Goffredo BARTOCCI (Italy)
Co-Chair : Dr Vittorio DE LUCA (Italy)
Speakers :
Pr Joan CHIAO (USA): Cultural Neuroscience of Emotion: Recent Advances and
Implications for Cultural Psychiatry
Pr Thomas STOMPE (Austria) : The Potential Impact of Cross-Cultural Neuroimaging
Studies for the Progress of Transcultural Psychiatry
Dr Bobby CHEON (USA) : The Cultural Neuroscience of Intergroup Biases
Dr Vittorio DE LUCA (Italy) : Neuroscience in Cultural Psychiatry : New Clinical and
Epistemological Challenges
Symposium 2 - WPA-TPS (World Psychiatric Association - Transcultural Psychiatry
Section)
Research on Migration and Acculturative Stress
Chair : Pr Ron WINTROB (USA)
Co-Chair : Pr Fumitaka NODA (Japan)
Speakers :
Dr Annie LAU (UK) : Assessing Mental Health Needs; Chinese/Vietnamese Children
and Families in the UK
Dr Anne Marie ULMAN (Israel) : The Ethiopian Community in Israel : A challenge for
the Mental Health System
Dr Iris CALLIESS (Germany) : What are Helpful Developmental Concepts in
Intercultural Psychotherapy? Presentation of a Culture Dynamic Model of Bicultural
Identity with Respect to the Structure of the Self
Pr Alean AL-KRENAWI (Canada) : Political Violence in Israel: An Analysis of Jewish-
Israeli and Palestinian-Israeli Adolescents: Trauma Exposure, Psychosocial and Family
Functioning, PTSD and Aggression
Symposium 3 - SSPC (Society for the Study of Psychiatry and Culture)
Cultural Competence and DSM-5
Chair: Dr Jim BOEHNLEIN (USA)
Speakers:
Dr Cecile ROUSSEAU (Canada) : Cultural Competence in Tense Times:
Defending Expert Status or Opening to Uncertainty ?
Dr Roberto LEWIS-FERNANDEZ (USA) : The Role of Cultural Syndromes in DSM-5
Dr Renato ALARCON (USA/Peru) : The Developmental Process of DSM-5 :
Lights and Shadows of the Cultural Battles
15h30 - 16h00 : Break & Poster Session
16h00 - 17h30 : SIMULTANEOUS SYMPOSIA
Symposium 4 - Françoise Minkowska Centre & IOM (International Organisation for
Migration)
Mental Health Best Practices and Cultural Training
Chair : Roumyana PETROVA-BENEDICT, Senior Regional Migration Health Manager
for the European and Central Asia Region and Liaison to the EU. International
Organization for Migration - I.O.M. (Belgium)
Co-Chair : Dr Riyadh AL-BALDAWI (Sweden)
Speakers :
Guglielmo SCHININÀ (Switzerland) : Best Practices Promoting Migrants' Access to
Mental Health in Europe
Stéphanie LARCHANCHÉ (France) : Promoting Mental Health Access for Migrants in
France : The MEDIACOR (Mediation, Reception and Orientation) Unit
Dr Eric JARVIS (Canada) : Best Practices in Cultural Consultation and Training :
An Overview of the Montreal Experience
Dr Riyadh AL-BALDAWI (Sweden) : A Transcultural Psychiatric Service in the Context
of Demographic and Socioeconomic Changes : Clinical Experiences and Practical
Models from Sweden
Symposium 5 - WACP (World Association for Cultural Psychiatry) & WPA-TPS
(World Psychiatric Association - Transcultural Psychiatry Section)
Cultural Identity and Mental Health
Chair : Pr Kamaldeep BHUI (UK)
Co-Chair : Dr Nasir WARFA (UK)
Speakers :
Pr Kamaldeep BHUI (UK) : Adolescence and Cultural Identity : Findings from RELACHS
and DASH
Dr Nasir WARFA (UK) : Black. Muslim. Refugee. African. Khat Addict. Unemployed.
“There Are All Kinds of Labels that I’ve Got at the Back of my Shirt”. Is this Good for
Mental Health?
Dr Axel KLEIN (UK) : Drugs and Identity : The Case of Khat and the Law
Samantha MORGAN (UK) : Does Conflict Concerning Cultural Identity
between Second-Generation Female Immigrants and their Parents Increase
their Engagement in Risk Behaviours?
Symposium 6 - GLADET (Groupe Latino Américain D’Etudes Transculturelles), WACP
(World Association for Cultural Psychiatry), WPA-TPS (World Psychiatric Association -
Transcultural Psychiatry Section)
Religion and Psychiatric Clinical Practice in Latin America and Europe
Chair : Pr Goffredo BARTOCCI (Italy)
Co-Chair : Pr Yves THORET (France)
Speakers :
Pr Goffredo BARTOCCI (Italy) : The Alliance in Italy Between Miraculous Thaumaturgy
and Mass Media
Dr Sergio VILLASENOR (Mexico) : Religion and Art in Martín Ramírez’s Work
Dr Jean GARRABÉ (France) : Language and Culture : El Inca Garcilaso de la Vega
Dr Alberto VELASCO (France & Mexico) : Is the Devil necessary?
17h30 - 19h00 : SIMULTANEOUS SYMPOSIA
Symposium 7 - WPA-TPS (World Psychiatric Association - Transcultural Psychiatry
Section) & WACP (World Association for Cultural Psychiatry)
Diagnostic Issues and Culture : The Experience of Cultural Consultation Services in East London
Chair : Pr Kamaldeep BHUI (UK)
Co-Chair : Dr Micol ASCOLI (UK)
Speakers :
Pr Kamaldeep BHUI (UK) : The Place of Race and Racism in Cultural Competence :
What Can We Learn from the English Experience About the Narratives of Evidence and
What are the Arguments ?
Dr Micol ASCOLI (UK) : The “Culture of Culture” within Psychiatric Services :
The Experience of a Cultural Consultation Service in London, UK
Dr Andrea PALINSKI (UK) : Setting Up a Narrative-Based Service in a Diagnostics
Dominated Environment
Symposium 8 - WPA-TPS (World Psychiatric Association - Transcultural Psychiatry
Section)
Management of Family Related Issues in Transcultural Care
Chair : Dr Danielle GROLEAU (Canada)
Co-Chair : Dr Lindiwe SIBEKO (South Africa)
Speakers :
Dr Türkan AKKAYA-KALAYCI (Austria) : The Impact of Special Psychiatric Services
on Migrant Children and their Families
Dr Patricia NEVES GUIMARAES (Brazil) : Cultural Meaning of Schizophrenia by Patients
and their Families Living in the Context of Poverty in Urban Community in Brazil
Dr Eleonora RIVA (Italy) : North African Muslim Families in Italy : A Transcultural
Approach for Public Services
Dr Lindiwe SIBEKO (South Africa) & Dr Danielle GROLEAU (Canada) : Migration,
Motherhood and Identity : Immigrant Women’s Experiences of Hyperemesis
Symposium 9 - WPA-TPS (World Psychiatric Association - Transcultural Psychiatry
Section)
Stress, Migration and Globalisation
Chair : Pr Joseba ACHOTEGUI (Spain)
Co-Chair : Jacqueline WEEKERS (Switzerland)
Speakers :
Pr Joseba ACHOTEGUI (Spain) : New Data about «The Ulysses Syndrome» Among
Immigrants in Spain
Dr Dori ESPESO (Spain) : The Ulysses Syndrome in Immigrant Youth
Jacqueline WEEKERS (Switzerland) : Challenges for Health Systems and Services for
Mental Health
Valeria SOMMER (France) : Transcultural Care : Challenges for Psychonanalysis
TUESDAY 19 APRIL 2011
Plenary Session Chair : Pr Ron WINTROB
09h00 - 09h45 : PLENARY SESSION 3
The Psycho-Cultural Impact of Natural Disaster; Human Consequences of recent
Earthquakes in New Zealand and Japan
Pr Ron WINTROB, Chair of the WPA-TPS (World Psychiatry Association Transcultural
Psychiatry Section), USA
Discutant : Pr Fumitaka NODA, Vice-Président de la Section de Psychiatrie
Transculturelle de l’Association Mondiale de Psychiatrie (W.P.A.-T.P.S.), Japon
09h45 - 10h30 : PLENARY SESSION 4
Social Psychiatry and Migration
Pr Driss MOUSSAOUI, Chair of the W.A.S.P. (World Association for Social Psychiatry),
Morocco
10h30 - 11h00 : Break & Posters
11h00 - 11h45 : PLENARY SESSION 5
Cultural Psychiatry and Spirituality. The Study of the Biopsychocultural Roots
of the Supernatural : Clinial Applications
Pr Goffredo BARTOCCI, Chair of the W.A.C.P. (World Association for Cultural Psychiatry),
Italy
11h45 - 12h30 : PLENARY SESSION 6
Stress, Trauma and Migration
Dr Richard RECHTMAN, E.H.E.S.S. (École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales),
France
12h30 - 14h00 : Lunch
12h30 - 14h00 : WPA-TPS Executive Committee lunch meeting
14h00 - 15h30 : SIMULTANEOUS SYMPOSIA
Symposium 10 - Evolution Psychiatrique
Phenomenology and Migration
Chair : Dr Richard RECHTMAN (France)
Co-Chair : Pr Sergio Javier VILLASENOR BAYARDO (Mexico)
Speakers :
Pr Sergio Javier VILLASENOR BAYARDO (Mexico) : Cultural Violence towards
Wixaritari (Huichol) Migrant Workers in Guadalajara, Mexico
Dr Charles DE BRITO (France) : Psychiatry and Cultures
Dr Jean ANDRIAMANANAIVO (Madagascar) : Psychotherapy of a Depressed Migrant :
The Interest of the so-called «Spiritual Resources». Clinical Findings.
Dr Heba HABIB (Egypt) : The Impact of the Political Situation on Women’s Mental
Health in Egypt in January 2011 : From Victimization to Empowerment
Symposium 11 - WPA-TPS (World Psychiatric Association - Transcultural Psychiatry
Section)
Cultural Competence and the Use of the Cultural Formulation
Chair : Dr Hans ROHLOF (Netherlands)
Co-Chair : Dr Adil QURESHI (Spain)
Speakers :
Dr Adil QURESHI (Spain) : The Cultural Formulation and Cultural Competence in Dialogue
: Soulmates or Strange Bedfellows ?
Dr Sofie BÄÄRNHIELM (Sweden) : Experiences of using the Cultural Formulation in
Sweden
Dr Simon GROEN (Netherlands) : The Cultural Formulation in Practice : The Relevance
of Contextualization
Dr Hans ROHLOF (Netherlands) : The Influence of Culture on Diagnostics : Analysis of
the use of the Cultural Formulation in Diagnosis
Symposium 12 - WPA-TPS (World Psychiatric Association - Transcultural Psychiatry
Section)
Immigration Policy : Comparative Study Between Japan and France
Chair : Pr Fumitaka NODA (Japan)
Co-Chair : Dr Edmond GUILLIBERT (France)
Speakers :
Simona TERSIGNI (France) : The Emergence of the Gender Perspective in Migration in
the French Context : Framing and New Challenges
Pr Nanako INABA (Japan) : The Poverty Alleviation Process of Filipino Women in
Japan : Building a New Community
Natacha LILLO (France) : Immigration in France : A Focus on Gender (1850-2005)
Ko UKAWA (Japan) : How Institutional Memories Passed on from Mother to Daughter
Affect the Process of Pregnancy and Delivery of Vietnamese Women
15h30 - 16h00 : Break & Poster Session
16h00 - 17h30 : SIMULTANEOUS SYMPOSIA
Symposium 13 - SSPC (Society for the Study of Psychiatry and Culture)
Healing and Reconciliation : Can Individuals and Ethnic Groups Recover from Violent Trauma ?
Chair : Dr Steven WOLIN (USA)
Co-Chair : Dr James JARANSON (USA)
Speakers :
Dr Marianne KASTRUP (Denmark) : Ethnic Minorities : From Xenophobic Experiences
to Spiritual Support
Dr James JARANSON (USA) : Evaluating the Services of Torture Rehabilitation
Programmes : History and Recommendations
Dr Steven WOLIN (USA) : Reconciliation following Genocide
Dr Libby ARCEL : Trauma Transmission to the Second Generation
Symposium 14 - WPA-TPS (World Psychiatric Association - Transcultural Psychiatry
Section)
The Impact of Migration on Children and Youth in Migrant Families
Chair : Dr Matthew HODES (UK)
Co-Chair : Dr Cécile ROUSSEAU (Canada)
Speakers:
Dr Matthew HODES (UK): The Mental Health and Service Contact of Unaccompanied
Asylum Seeking Children
Dr Ilse DERLUYN (Belgium) : Emotional Well-Being of Unaccompanied Refugee
Children and Adolescents
Dr Mina FAZEL (UK) : Developing Mental Health Services in the Community for Refugee
Children
Dr Cécile ROUSSEAU (Canada) : Access to Health Care for Undocumented Migrant Children and Pregnant Women :
Professional Perceptions in Montreal
Symposium 15 - Françoise Minkowska Centre, Paris Descartes University & Sigmund Freud University Paris
Sickness and Migration
Chair : Pr Silla CONSOLI (France)
Co-Chair : Marie-Jo BOURDIN (France)
Speakers :
Pr Silla CONSOLI (France) : Migrant’s Functional Complaints : Communication Failure
or Successful Adaptation ?
Lauren BAN (Canada) : Culture and the Folk Concept of Resilience
Dr Aida SYLLA (Senegal) : Mental Cultural Formulation in Senegal :
The Thiaroye National Psychiatric Hospital’s Practice
Dr Jean-Pierre MUYARD (France) : Pseudo-Autism and Cultural Matrix
17h30 - 18h30 : SIMULTANEOUS SYMPOSIA:
Symposium 16
Cajuns of Louisiana : The Strategies, Traditions and Techniques
of a Cultural Community in a Post-Disaster Situation
Chair : Dr Jacques ARPIN (Switzerland)
Co-Chair : Jan GILBERT (USA)
Speakers :
Dr Jacques ARPIN (Switzerland) : Directing Cultural Performances
from Field to Consultation
Jan GILBERT (USA) : Collaboration : Tools, Techniques and a Taste of Cajun
Mônica ARPIN (Brazil) : How Touchstones of Oral Tradition contribute to Identity
Kevin McCAFFREY (USA) : Consider the Cajun: Reconstituting Layers of Cultural
Choices
Symposium 17 - FILM
Where Do I Stand : Youth Confronting Xenophobia in South Africa
Producer : Molly BLANK
Presented by : Dr Steve WOLIN (USA) and Dr Marianne KASTRUP (Denmark)
20h00 : Dinner cruise on a bateau-mouche along the river Seine
WEDNESDAY 20 APRIL 2011
Plenary Session Chair : Pr Helen HERRMAN (Australia)
09h00 - 09h45 : PLENARY SESSION 7
Medical Anthropology and Social Determinants of Mental Health
Stéphanie LARCHANCHÉ, Anthropologist, PhD Washington University St. Louis,
EHESS Paris ; Research and Teaching Coordinator, Minkowska Centre, France
09h45 - 10h30 : PLENARY SESSION 8
Resilience and Culture
Dr Boris CYRULNIK, Neuropsychiatrist, Professor at the University of Toulon, Writer,
France
10h30 - 11h00 : Break & Poster Session
11h00 - 11h45 : PLENARY SESSION 9
Immigrant Parents and their Children. Understanding and Care.
Pr Marie Rose MORO, Paris Descartes University, Home for Adolescents, Groupe
Hospitalier COCHIN-SVP, France
11h45 - 12h30 : PLENARY SESSION 10
Cultural Competence and Psychotherapy
Dr Rachid BENNEGADI, Secretary of the WPA-TPS (World Psychiatric Association -
Transcultural Psychiatry Section), Director of the Teaching, Studies and Research
Department, Françoise Minkowska Centre, France
12h30 - 14h00 : Lunch
12h30 - 14h00 : WPA-TPS Members Meeting
14h00 - 15h30 : SIMULTANEOUS SYMPOSIA
Symposium 18 - ALFAPSY (Alternative Fédérative des Associations de Psychiatrie)
Clinical Synergy between Private Practice in Psychiatry and a Transcultural Approach
Chair : Dr Paul LACAZE (France)
Co-Chair : Dr Antoine BESSE (France)
Speakers :
Dr Antoine BESSE (France) : Narrative Identity and Recognition in a Childhood Context
Dr Jalil BENNANI (Morocco) : Tranference and Intercultural Setting
Dr Félicien ADOTEVI (Senegal) : Nathalie's Fight for Freedom : Transcultural Clinical
Lesson in a Psychiatric Private Practice
Michel PETERSON (Canada) : Trauma and «Transcreation» in a Clinical Setting
for the Tortured
Symposium 19 - WACP (World Association for Cultural Psychiatry)
Spirituality, Religion and Psychiatry
Chair : Dr Simon DEIN (UK)
Co-Chair : Dr Micol ASCOLI (UK)
Speakers :
Dr Simon DEIN (UK) : Violence and the Apocalypse
Dr Micol ASCOLI (UK) : The Voice of God
Pr Roland LITTLEWOOD (UK) : Theology as Indigenous Psychology
Pr Ezra GRIFFITH (USA) : Therapeutic Aspects of Garments in the Barbados Spiritual Baptist Church
Symposium 20 - WPA-TPS (World Psychiatric Association - Transcultural Psychiatry Section)
Cultural Issues and Standards in Psychiatry
Chair : Dr Afzal JAVED (UK)
Co-Chair : Pr Ingrid WALDRON (Canada)
Speakers :
Dr Afzal JAVED (UK) : Culture, Ethnicity & Racism : The British Scene
Pr Ingrid WALDRON (Canada) : Re-Conceptualizing Trauma : Examining the Mental Health Impact of Discrimination, Torture and Migration for Racialized Groups in Toronto
Pr Daniel MBASSA MENICK (Cameroon) : Migrant Care in Psychiatric Institutions
Dr Assefa NEGASH (Netherlands) : Incidence of Suicide among Ethiopian and Eritrean Refugees Living in the Netherlands
15h30 - 16h00 : CLOSING SESSION (Thanks to organisers and participants)
Pr Ron WINTROB et Dr Rachid BENNEGADI
