Invitation & Welcome from Professor Kamaldeep Bhui
President 3rd Third World Congress of Cultural Psychiatry
Mental capital, mental disorders, resilience and wellbeing through the life-course
It is my great pleasure to warmly welcome you to the 3rd World Congress of Cultural Psychiatry in London. This is a very exciting year in which we are hosting the Olympic Games. The Conference venue Queen Mary University of London.
The Scientific profile of the 3rd World Congress will emphasise life-course understandings of mental distress, resilience and wellbeing, with a particular focus on young people. We are faced with many new frontier of cultural psychiatry, and a focus on life-course, well being, resilience, and young people is one of the new frontiers. Other themes include the neuro-scientific basis of violence and psychiatric symptoms, that neurobiology of violence and psychiatric symptoms; terrorism and conflict; self harm and suicide; diagnostic precision; culture and psychopathology; ethno-pharmacology; spirituality, religion and mental health; the future of cultural psychiatry; migration, training and education; public policy, service organisation and delivery, trainee workshops, media & mental health; ‘research and reviews’; clinical practice and policy in a culturally diverse context.
The Mayor of London has agreed to be patron to the event in this Olympic year. The themes of sport and physical activity, youth and health will undoubtedly feature, not only within the Congress but in the Olympic environment as you travel to and from the Congress.
The Congress will be an important opportunity for scholars from diverse academic and practice disciplines to integrate and progress their learning, theorise and disseminate research to the public as well as to each other. The list of topics is broad, challenging and of importance to diverse disciplines, including psychology, religious studies, cultural studies, psychiatry, social sciences, anthropology, political science, arts and the laws, reflecting the complex definitions of culture that underpins cultural psychiatry and its practice and research.
I’d be delighted to receive further suggestions and proposals from you as early as possible in order to accommodate these within the programme. I invite proposals for symposia presentations, posters and videos session.
Thank you all for attending and contributing to wellbeing and mental health. I warmly invite you to attend and become key participants in this important phase in the growth of the World Association of Cultural Psychiatry.
