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Update website

Our website https://waculturalpsy.org/ needs an update. We allocated funds to redesign our main website and we let you know the launch date. We asked young experts from Pakistan to assist us. It is still in the preliminary phase.

Special Interest Groups (SIG’s)

Our past-president Roberto Lewis-Fernández was willing to coordinate and stimulate SIG-activities. However since we want to share efforts among more people than just Roberto we are asking our Board of Directors to take care of one of the SIG’s.

Renato D. Alarcón

In our try-out edition of prominent members and former WACP Officers we informed you that Prof. Dr. Renato Alarcon, emeritus professor of Psychiatry at the Mayo Clinic College of Medicine, was  treasurer of the WACP, however Sergio Villasenor Bayardo informed me that he was the secretary and not the treasurer. Sorry for this.  

International conference

We as WACP decided to introduce a new initiative: the International Conference. In between our large congresses, these are 3 years apart from each other, we thought it would be a good idea to have an additional scientific gathering, smaller but as inspiring as the large congress. The first one was planned in Shanghai, China but very unfortunately, due to COVID, we had to cancel it. However, now we just finished our international conference in Paris, and the theme was CULTURAL PSYCHIATRY & ART. Alberto Velasco and his SIG was very active in organizing this and he planned also online seminars in preparation for that event.

To inform you what happened is the program:

 International Conference « Art and its Benefits in Mental Health and Psychiatry »

Simultaneous translation provided

 Thursday, September 19, 2024

 MC : Federico Ossola, former President of The Franco-Argentine Association of Psychiatry and Mental Health

13h30-14h00 : Welcome of participants

14h-14h15 : Introduction

Jean Luc Roelandt, former Director of the WHO Coordination Center, Medical Consultant at CCOMS, in charge of international actions

Prof. Dr. Mario H. Braakman, President of the World Association of Cultural Psychiatry (WACP)

14h15-15h45 : Theme 1 

History and Institutional Links Between Hospitals, Patients, and Museums

Chair : Pr Philip Gorwood, Head of the CMME Department at GHU Paris, President of the International Relations Commission of GHU Paris

Moderator : Claire Lécole, Cultural Mediator at GHU Paris, graduate in art history and public art, working at GHU since 2021

• From “Art of the Mad” to Contemporary Art: The Example of the Museum of Art and History at Sainte Anne Hospital

Anne Marie Dubois, psychiatrist and psychoanalyst, Scientific Director of MAHHSA – France

• Visits for People with Psychological Disabilities: Activities and Research at the Musée d’Orsay

Yannick Le Pape, Engineer of Cultural Services and Heritage, Research Officer at the Musée d’Orsay

Dr Bérangère Thirioux Clinical Research Unit Pierre Deniker, Henri Laborit Hospital Center (Poitiers) – France

• Cultural Rights of Patients

Isabelle Rouls, Isabelle Rouls, Director of Audiences, Musée du quai Branly – Jacques Chirac Musée du Quai Branly – France

• Victor Hugo Meets Lucienne Forest: Interplay of Gazes and Legitimacy Stakes

Inga Walc-Bezombes, Historian, Director of Public Services at the Maison de Victor Hugo, PhD student at the Department of Slavic Studies, Sorbonne University – France

15H45-16h00 : Break

 16h00-17h30 : Theme 2

Use of Art as Therapy and as a Tool in Psychosocial Rehabilitation

Chair : Dr Martin Reca, President of the Franco-Argentine Association of Psychiatry and Mental Health, member of COFALP

Moderator : Julie Laurenge, Project Manager for the Development of the Contemporary Art Fund Frontière$, EPSM Lille Métropole, 59G21.

 • Introduction to Psychosocial Rehabilitation

Camille Hamon, Psychologist specializing in neuropsychology, expert in Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD), neurodevelopmental disorders (NDD) and learning disabilities in children from 6 years old

Chloé Lunel, Psychologist specializing in neuropsychology, evaluating and supporting patients in their psychosocial rehabilitation projects

Isabelle Amado, Hospital Practitioner, Head of c3rp, National Resource Center for Cognitive Remediation and Psychosocial Rehabilitation – France

• Fostering Resilience: Japan’s Challenge in Psychotherapy Arts

Rieko Shioji, Psychiatrist, Professor, Tokyo Metropolitan University

Kanako Shimizu, Psychiatrist, Rokubancho Psychiatric Clinic

Naoko Miyaji, Psychiatrist, Professor of Cultural Psychiatry and Medical Anthropology, Hitotsubashi University

Yuichiro Abe, Psychiatrist, Ishiki Hospital – Japan

• Creation Process and Therapeutic Relationship: Art in Art Therapies

Paula Martinez Takegami and François Trably, Artistic Mediation Therapy Unit of CMME, GHU Paris – France

• Icarus: The Takeoff Process. Working with Clay

Antonio Diaz Quiroz, Coordinator of the Therapeutic Support Center (CAT)

Galilea Carranza Monreal, Artist

Emma Cerecer, Workshop Supervisor

Rubi Muñoz, Head of the Art Workshop at CAT Monterrey Nuevo Leon – Mexico

17h30-17h35 :

Testimonial Resonating with the Work: Alice Vinçon-Leite

 Friday, September 20, 2024

MC : Federico Ossola, former President of the The Franco-Argentine Association of Psychiatry and Mental Health

 8h30-9h00 : Welcoming of participants

 9h00-9h15 : Introduction

Guillaume Couillard, Director of GHU Paris

9h15-10h45 : Theme 3

Conceiving Art as a Creative Methodology of Investigation and as an Institutional Tool

Chair : Emmanuelle Remond, President of UNAFAM France

Moderator : Dr Hans Rohlof, Psychiatrist, former Treasurer and Board Member of the World Association of Cultural Psychiatry (WACP)

 • CHiMEs Collective: “Using Artistic Methodologies in Mental Health Research”

Harsimran Sansoy, ATTUNE, Project Manager of the CHiMEs Collective, University of Oxford – United Kingdom

• Noah’s Ark: Painting and Allegory, Joint Creation of Care in an Outpatient Medical-Psychological Center

Brigitte Gadeyne, Hospital Practitioner Psychiatrist responsible for outpatient care units, Pole 16, GHU Paris, member of the Higher Medical Council, Ministry of Health – France

• The Artist and Their Work: “Lessons for a Research Methodology in Mental Health and Social Links”

Julia Martin, Director General of Mental Health in Berazategui, Professor and Researcher at the National University of La Plata, Buenos Aires, Vice-President of the Argentine Section – Argentina

• The Oath of Opera

Myriam Mazouzi, Director of the Paris National Opera Academy

Alberto Velasco, Head of Service S4 of Pole 5/6/7 at GHU Paris, Board Member of WACP, Secretary of COFALP

Antoine Puybareau, Psychomotor Therapist participating in the GHU Paris workshop – France

 10h45-11h15 : Break

 11h15-12h45 : Theme 4

Thinking of Art as a Means and Mediation Through Various Devices

Chair : Dr Michel Triantafyllou, Head of Pole 5/6/7 at GHU Paris, President of the Syndicate of Public Practice Psychiatrists

Moderator : Ana Gómez-Carrillo, MD, Assistant Professor in the Division of Social and Transcultural Psychiatry at McGill University, Psychiatrist for Inuit Children and Adolescents in Nunavik, Quebec – Canada

 • From Child Psychiatry to an Art Space: An Original Liaison Work in Perinatal Care and Adolescent Psychiatry

Nina Franzoni, Assistant Child Psychiatrist shared between CH Despinoy in Martinique and Paris, Maison de Solenn in Professor Marie-Rose Moro’s department – France

• An Architecture Workshop with Children Followed in Child Psychiatry, A Creative Experience

Ramon Menendez, Psychiatrist, Psychoanalyst, Member of the Franco-Colombian Association of Psychiatry (COFALP) – France/ Colombia

• Pathography in Japan: A Salutography Perspective

Shinichiro Tanaka, Psychiatrist, Professor, Tokyo University of the Arts

Itsuo Asai, Psychiatrist, President of the Joint PRCP & WACP 2025 Congress in Tokyo

Yuichiro Abe, Psychiatrist, Ishiki Hospital – Japan

• The Imaginary Sea Journey: A Season of Museum-Trunk Mediation at GHU

Mathias Gorog, Child Psychiatrist, Head of Service of the Infanto-Juvenile Sector, Pole 14, GHU Paris, co-design with the Carmignac Foundation (production, design) – France

12h30-14h00 : Lunch Break (on-site or free)

 MC : Murielle Duranton, Vice President of the Franco-Cuban Association of Psychiatry and Psychology

14h-15h30 : Theme 5 

The Role of Art as Support for Families, for Illiterate Patients, and in Therapeutic Support

Chair : Professeur Itsuo Asai, President of the World Congress of Cultural Psychiatry of the World Association of Cultural Psychiatry (WACP) in Tokyo in September 2025

Moderator : Aurélien Troisoeufs, Health Anthropologist at the Mental Health Research Laboratory, Humanities and Social Sciences, GHU Paris

• Art by and About the Family

Emmanuelle Remond, President of UNAFAM France

Sybille Dequero, Architect, Writer and Volunteer at UNAFAM – France

• Views and Sounds of Psychosis: Healing Narratives with Art Photography

Byamah B. Mutamba, Senior Consultant Psychiatrist at Butabika National Mental Hospital, Kampala, Technical Director at YouBelong – Uganda

• Cultural Perspectives Based on Art Leading to Useful Narratives for Self-Management of Mental Health

Muhammad Irfan, Professor of Psychiatry and Chair of the Department of Mental Health, Psychiatry, and Behavioral Sciences at Peshawar Medical College, Public Health Professor, President-elect of the World Association of Cultural Psychiatry (WACP) – Pakistan

• Helping Alice Exit Wonderland: Art as a Healing Principle

Juan Manuel Rodriguez Penagos, Psychoanalyst, PhD in Fundamental Psychopathology and Psychoanalysis from Paris-7 University, Therapeutic Companion, Secretary of the Franco-Mexican Association of Psychiatrists and Psychotherapists – Mexico