As part of Mental Health Week events in Reggio Emilia, Italy the Museum for the History of Psychiatry is holding a one-day conference on “Psychiatry and Other Cultures: A Historical Perspective.” The conference will take September 26th, 2015. The full program and registration details follow below.
“Psychiatry and other cultures: A historical perspective”
September 26th 2015
Museum for the history of psychiatry
Via Amendola, 2- Padiglione Lombroso
Reggio EmiliaProgram
H 8.30 Participants registrationH 9.00
Welcome address Gaddomaria GrassiH 9.30
Opening session Luigi BenevelliH 10.00
The “Devereux case” in the history of ethnopsychiatry, Alessandra CereaTranscultural psychiatry, decolonization and nationalism: Comparisans between Nigeria and India, Matthew M. Heaton
Beyond colonial psychiatry? The indigenization of psychiatry of British India, 1900-1940, Waltraud Ernst
Psychiatry in the ltalian colanies of Africa, Marianna Scarfone
H 12.00 Conference conclusion
Epistemology of Cultural Psychiatry, German E. BerriosH 13.00
Questions and discussionsFor info and registration send an e-mail at: bombardieric@ausl.re.it