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Call for Papers Extended to 2 April 2012
Abstracts are invited for oral presentations, workshops and posters for the 15th International Philosophy and Psychiatry Conference to be held in Dunedin, New Zealand 5-7 July 2012. These need to be submitted by 2 April 2012. Authors will be advised once accepted, authors will need to be registered to be scheduled for presentation and included in conference documents by the end of April 2012. Concurrent presenters must provide their own funding for registration, travel and accommodation. Submission of an abstract acknowledges your acceptance for the abstract to be published and made available in all printed or electronic material of the conference.
Oral Presentations will consist of a total time of 30 minutes (presenters should aim for 20 minutes presenting with 10 minutes discussion).
Workshops will consist of a total time of 90 minutes and may include multiple presenters eg; an introduction and two presentations. Workshops should be interactive, with time for discussion. We will consider all formats within this general guideline. The workshop proposal should be submitted on the Abstract Submission Form (Workshops) by the person organising/convening the workshop.
The workshop abstract document should contain:
- A brief overview of the workshop outlining the aims and the proposed structure / approximate timings if possible.
- An abstract (250 words maximum) for each substantial presentation (include the presentation title, presenting author and their affiliation)
Poster Presentations must conform to the Poster Presentation Guidelines
Suggested Themes:
1. Culture, identity and the brain: This theme focuses on neuroscience in relation to cultural and social cognition as they are studied with brain imaging work on psychiatric disorders. It also examines the possible contributions of biological psychiatry to understanding cultural variations in patterns of mental disorder.
2. Mental disorder and displaced peoples – being strange in strange places: This theme looks at work in post-colonial settings and in immigrant populations and the relationships and connections could be made between the two.
3. Culture and forensic psychiatry: This theme examines criminality and the incidence of mental disorders according to ethnicity and cultural status. There are divergencies in the ways that different cultural and ethnic groups are treated by health care and justice systems and the complex interactions between them need critical discussion.
4. Culture and maladies of the soul: The link between culture and identity, cultural variations in rites of passage in adolescence and other age-groups arguably affect the manifestations of mental disorder in different ethnic groups, a further topic needing critical discussion.
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