International News and Notes
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Conferences and Symposia
Denmark
DATE: 21–23 April 2010
EVENT: International Conference and PhD Course
THEME: Cultural and Biological Contexts of Psychiatric Disorder: Implications for Diagnosis and Treatment
ORGANIZATION: organized by J. Parnas & K. S. Kendler
LOCATION: Copenhagen
CONTACT: jopales@vcu.edu
India
DATE: 14–15 January 2010
EVENT: International Seminar on Mind, Brain and Consciousness
THEME: Understanding Mental Disorders
ORGANIZATION: International Network of Philosophy and Psychiatry (www.inpponline.org)
LOCATION: Thane, Maharastra, India
CONTACT: http://vpmthane.org/Arts-Comm/seminar2010/international_seminar.htm
Russia
DATE: 12 June 2010
EVENT: WPA Section on Philosophy and History Joint Symposium
THEME: Epistemology and Methodology of Psychiatry
ORGANIZATION: World Psychiatric Association
LOCATION: St. Petersburg
CONTACT: Prof. Dr. German E. Berrios (University of Cambridge, UK) and Assoc. Prof. Dr. Drozdstoy St. Stoyanov (University of Medicine, Plovdiv, Bulgaria)
Sweden
DATE: 2–4 September 2011
EVENT: 14th International INPP Conference
THEME: Ethics, Experience and Evidence: Integration of Perspectives in Psychiatry
ORGANIZATION: International Network for Philosophy and Psychiatry
CONTACT: helge.malmgren@filosofi.gu.se
United Kingdom
DATE: 28–30 June 2010
EVENT: 13th International INPP Conference
THEME: Real People: The Self in Mental Health and Social Care
ORGANIZATION: International Network for Philosophy and Psychiatry
LOCATION: Manchester, England
U.S.A.
DATE: 22–24 January, 2010
EVENT: FPR-UCLA 4th Interdisciplinary Conference
THEME: Cultural and Biological Contexts of Psychiatric Disorder: Implications for Diagnosis and Treatment
LOCATION: University of California, Los Angeles
CONTACT: www.thefpr.org/conference2010/
DATE: 22–23 May 2010
EVENT: 21st Annual Meeting
THEME: Philosophical Issues in Evidence-Based Psychiatry
ORGANIZATION: Association for the Advancement of Philosophy & Psychiatry
LOCATION: New Orleans, Louisiana
CONTACT: Linda Muncy, linda.muncy@utsouthwestern.edu [End Page 355]
National and Local Groups
Australia
ORGANIZATION: Interest Group for Philosophy and Psychiatry
CONTACT: Dr. Jeanette Martin and Dr. Stephanie Winfield, Australia/New Zealand College of Psychiatrists, 2/97 Edgecliffe Road, Bondi Junction - NSW 2002
Canada
ORGANIZATION: Association for the Advancement of Philosophy & Psychiatry - Canadian Affiliate Group, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
CONTACT: Edwin Hersch, M.D., 586 Eglinton Ave. E., Suite 707, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M4P1P2; edwinhersch@bellnet.ca
Denmark
ORGANIZATION: Danish Group for Philosophy, Medicine and Mental Health
CONTACT: Dr. Soren Holm, Department of Medical Philosophy and Clinical Theory, University of Copenhagen, Blegdamsvej 3C - 2200N
CONTACT: Dr. Anton Aggernaes, Institute of Neurophysiology, University of Copenhagen, Buldborgvej 25 - DK, 2000 Fredriksberg
Finland
ORGANIZATION: Finnish Group for Philosophy, Medicine and Mental Health
CONTACT: Professor Ingmar Porn and Dr. Markus Heinimaa, Department of Philosophy, University of Turku - 20700 Turku
France
ORGANIZATION: L'Évolution Psychiatrique
CONTACT: Professor Yves Thoret, 53 Aven Anatole, 78300, Poissy
Germany
ORGANIZATION: Referat Philosophische Grundlagen der Psychiatrie, DGPPN (German Psychiatric Association
CONTACT: Dr. Thomas Fuchs, Universitätsklinikum Heidelberg, Psychiatrische Klinik, Voßstr. 4, D-69115 Heidelberg; thomas_fuchs@med.uni-heidelberg.de; Dr. Martin Heinze, Klinikum Bremen-Ost; Martin.Heinze@Klinikum-Bremen-Ost.de; www.dgppn.de
ORGANIZATION: Gesellschaft für Philosophie und Wissenschaften der Psyche
CONTACT: Dr. Christian Kupke, c/o Charité Klinik für Psychiatrie und psychotherapie Schumannstr. 20/21, 10117 Berlin, kupke@onlinehome.de; www.gpwp.de
Israel
ORGANIZATION: Society for Philosophy, Counseling and Psychotherapy
CONTACT: Dr. Ran Lahav, 25 Yarmin Street - Mevascret Zion 90805
Italy
ORGANIZATION: Società Italiana per la Psciopatologia
CONTACT: Dr. Giovanni Stanghellini, Via Venezia 14, 1-50121 Florence
ORGANIZATION: Italian Research Unit on Philosophy and Psychiatry
CONTACT: Dr. Emilio Mordini, Instituto Psicoanalitico per la Reserche Social, Via Avenula 21, 00186 Roma
Japan
ORGANIZATION: Japanese Association for Psychiatry and Philosophy
CONTACT: Dr. Takeshi Utsumi, Department of Psychiatry, Teikyo University School of Medicine, 2-11-1, Kaga, Itabashi-ku, Tokyo, 173-8605, Japan; utsumi@med.teikyo-u.ac.jp
The Netherlands
ORGANIZATION: Dutch Foundation for Psychiatry and Philosophy
CONTACT: Professor Evert van Leeuwen, Zuider Stationsweg 29-2061 HD Bloemendaal
New Zealand
ORGANIZATION: New Zealand Group for Philosophy and Psychiatry
CONTACT: Professor Grant Gillett & Dr. Richard Mullen, Bioethics Research Centre, University of Otago, PO Box 913, Dunedin
Northern Ireland
ORGANIZATION: Northern Ireland Ethics Forum
CONTACT: Dr. Ann Beglem, School of Nursing and Midwifery, The Queen's University - Belfast BT7 1NN [End Page 356]
Norway
ORGANIZATION: Norwegian Group for Philosophy, Medicine and Mental Health
CONTACT: Dr. Erik Falkum, Legeforeingen, Lagasen 1324, Lysaker
Romania
ORGANIZATION: Free Psychiatrists Association...
