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     THE 6  WORLD CONGRESS OF 
     THE WORLD ASSOCIATION OF 
     CULTURAL PSYCHIATRY
     The Cultural Perspective in Psychiatry: 
     Moving Forward to Meet the Needs of 
     a Globalizing Society
     ABSTRACT BOOK
     15 - 17 SEPTEMBER 2022                  WACP2022.ORG
         
        TABLE OF CONTENT 
        Abstracts Keynotes ............................................................................................................................................... 22 
        Abstracts Oral Presentations ................................................................................................................................ 77 
        Abstracts Workshops .................................................................................................................................... 157157 
        Abstracts Posters .......................................................................................................................................... 176176 
        LIST AUTHOR INDEX ...................................................................................................................................... 219217 
         
                       
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        Abstracts Keynotes 
        Migration as a metaphor: towards a praxis of acknowledgement 
        Abstract ID: 255 
        Keynote: Jean-Claude  Métreaux, Psychiatrist and Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist 
        Association ‘Appartenances’, University of Lausanne. Switzerland 
         
        Description 
        The encounter between a psychotherapist from the North and a migrant patient from the South is an encounter 
        between two migrants, each of whom is bound to migrate into the other's world. Their task is first to co-
        construct a world of shared meaning, a common sense of belonging. This task requires a prior recognition of our 
        similarities,  such as our migrant essence, our human vulnerability and our sensitivity to loss, as well as a 
        recognition of our different positions; one closer to the North, the other closer to the South. On the basis of our 
        similarities, we psychotherapists can then develop a praxis of acknowledgement, which I will elaborate in this 
        contribution. This praxis of acknowledgement leads us to think differently about the encounter with our migrant 
        patients, and to draw differently our commitment in the transcultural clinic. 
         
        Haunted: On Race as an Absent Presence in Scientific Practice 
        Abstract ID: 256 
        Keynote: Amade  M'Charek, Professor Anthropology of Science, Department of Anthropology, 
        University of Amsterdam. The Netherlands 
         
        Description 
        Race and science entertain a long and troubled relation. However, the second world war and the publication of 
        the UNESCO document on Race in 1951 are typically seen as a turning point after which race has increasingly 
        become irrelevant or even obsolete in scientific research. While race has been declared dead and confined to a 
        troubled passed, in this talk I argue that scientific practices, psychiatry included, are haunted by the specter of 
        race since histories tend to materialize in practices and cannot simply be left behind. I suggest that race is best 
        seen as an absent presence, and something that requires more care and attention. I will draw on examples from 
        the field of forensic genetics to make this more concrete. Forensic genetic technologies have constituted a major 
        change in criminal investigation and rightly celebrated as the ultimate identifier of the individual suspect. A more 
        recent application, DNA phenotyping, promises to deliver clues about the physical appearance of an unknown 
        suspect based on DNA found at the crime scene. I will show that while this technology is aimed at the face of 
        the individual, it necessarily produces a racialized collective. 
         
         
         
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        Rwandan community-based sociotherapy. Its philosophy, 
        practice, impact and expansion into other countries 
        Abstract ID: 257 
        Keynote: Annemiek  Richters, Amsterdam Institute for Social Science Research, The Netherlands. 
        Community Based Sociotherapy, Rwanda. 
         
        Description 
        Community Based Sociotherapy as practiced in Rwanda (CBS) is a group-based mental health and psychosocial 
        support (MHPSS) intervention for people suffering through relational and collective trauma resulting from the 
        1994 genocide against the Tutsi, its preceding war, and its aftermath. It is a response to the increasing realization 
        that the sequelae of collective violence affect not only the emotional world of individuals, but also destroys the 
        space between them, and frays or even destroys the relationships that in stable circumstances constitute 
        people’s  life-worlds.  To  recover  the  capacity  to  form  supportive  new  relationships,  CBS  facilitates  re-
        engagement with everyday life and its ensuing healing, reconciliation and social transformation. Since 2004 CBS 
        has been shaped by the perspectives of a multitude of its trainers, facilitators, group participants and researchers 
        to become increasingly owned by Rwandan people and recognized throughout the country as a valuable support 
        of post-genocide social reconstruction initiatives. This lecture will focus on: CBS as a context-driven and culturally 
        sensitive  intervention;  the  value  of  assessing  its  impact  through  a  bottom-up  approach  compared  to  an 
        international driven one in the form of, for instance, a controlled-clinical trial; how its cross-border expansion 
        demonstrates its adaptability to a range of settings and cultural contexts without loss of its efficacy. 
         
        The versality of words; language in (cultural) psychiatry 
        Abstract ID: 258 
        Keynote: Frank  Kortmann, Emeritus Professor in Psychiatry and Transcultural Psychiatry, Radboud 
        University Nijmegen, The Netherlands. 
         
        Description 
        The building blocks in psychiatry are just words and behavior. Words and behavior derive their meanings in their 
        context. The larger the cultural gap between patient and worker, the more content they need to understand 
        each  other.  This  statement  has  huge  consequences  for  the  application  of  clinical  and  epidemiological 
        instruments, as will be illustrated with the finding of a validity study of the Self Reporting Questionnaire (SRQ) 
        in Ethiopia. The conclusion: don’t think too quickly or too fast that you have understood your patient. Take the 
        stand of the one who does not know, as long as possible. Only then you might receive sufficient context from 
        your patient to really understand him or her. 
         
        New developments in psychosocial care in humanitarian emergencies. 
        Abstract ID: 259 
        Keynote: Joop de Jong, Emeritus Professor of Cultural Psychiatry and Global Mental Health, 
        Amsterdam UMC, The Netherlands. Boston University School of Medicine. 
         
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