Symposium Showcase
Explore the Lineup of Symposiums：Pioneering Discussions Shaping the Future of Psychiatry !
Cutting-Edge Developments in Psychiatric Classification: From DSM-5-TR to DSM-6 and the ICD-11 Comparison
This symposium highlights recent advancements in psychiatric classification, providing first-hand insights into the development of DSM-5-TR and future directions for DSM-6. Attendees will hear updates on DSM-5-TR’s implementation and its comparison with ICD-11, with Prof. Shigenobu Kanba offering a perspective from Japan. Featuring Roberto Lewis-Fernández, Michael First, and Kimberly Yonkers—leaders of the DSM Steering Committee—this is a unique opportunity to engage with experts shaping the field.
Symposium
Recent Advances in Psychiatric Classification: DSM and ICD
Presenter
Kimberly Yonkers
Katz Family Chair, Department of Psychiatry University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School/U Mass Memorial Medical Center Editor In Chief, Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease
Presenter
Michael First
Columbia/NYS Psychiatric Institute
Presenter
Roberto Lewis-Fernandez
Columbia/NYS Psychiatric Institute
Presenter
Shigenobu Kanba
Kyushu University Emeritus
Plenary session1
Workforce for mental health care of the future
Prof. Norman Sartorius
President of the Association for the Improvement of Mental Health Programmes, Advisor to the Board of Directors and Council Member of the World Federation for Psychotherapy; Past President of the World Psychiatric Association and of the European Psychiatric Association (Switzerland)
Plenary session2
Transforming mental health across cultures: promotion, prevention and human rights-based collaborative care
Prof. Helen Herrman
The University of Melbourne (Australia)
Plenary session3
How to Assess and Intervene Hikikomori in the 21st Digitalized Society
Prof. Takahiro Kato
Department of Psychiatry, Hokkaido University Graduate School of Medicine (Sapporo, Japan)
Plenary session4
Social turn in how we understand and support schizophrenia
Dr. Kiyoto Kasai
Department of Neuropsychiatry, Graduate School of Medicine, The University of Tokyo (Japan)
Educational Lecture1
Psychotherapy Education for Medical Students
Dr. Yong Chon Park
Department of Psychiatry, Hanyang University (Korea)
Educational Lecture2
Latin American Masters of Cultural Psychiatry
Dr. Sergio Javier Villasenor-Bayardo
Jalisco Institute of Mental Health and Addictions, University of Guadalajara (Mexico)
Educational Lecture3
On the heterogeneity of depression: How the Japanese cultural environment has affected psychopathology
Prof. Shigenobu Kanba
Kyushu University (Japan)
Educational Lecture4
From the Culture of Symptoms to the Universals of Care: Why I Shifted from Cultural Psychiatry to Global Mental Health.
Professor Arthur Kleinman
Esther and Sidney Rabb Professor of Anthropology
Professor of Medical Anthropology, Department of Global Health and Social Medicine
Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School
Harvard University, United States
Educational Lecture5
Toward a Poetics of Illness and Healing
Laurence J. Kirmayer, MD, FRCPC, FCAHS, FRSC
Distinguished James McGill Professor
McGill University, Montreal, Canada
Educational Lecture6
From Transcultural Psychiatry to Cultural Psychiatry: the role of old mythologies and new scientific approaches in the construction of biocultural identities
Dr. Goffredo Bartocci
WACP Founder & Second President; life standing member of WACP BoDs; editor in Chief of the Journal Psichiatria Psicoterapia Culturale (Italy)
Educational Lecture7
Who Decides What’s Normal? Cultural Authority, Identity, and the Globalization of Psychiatric Diagnoses
Prof. Dr. Muhammad Irfan
Peshawar Medical College,
Riphah International University,
Islamabad - Pakistan
President-Elect, World Association of Cultural Psychiatry
Educational Workshop
The Healing Power of Music in Mental Health
Pianist and advocate Chad Lawson explores how live music, breathwork, and science based tools can calm the nervous system and support healing in mental health care.
Chad Lawson
Composer, Pianist, and Recording Artist (Universal Music Group, USA)
Symposium Time Schedule As of July 2
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