TOPICS

• Affective spectrum disorders.
• Biological therapy of mental disorders.
• Child and adolescent psychiatry.
• Classification of mental disorders and its development.
• Clinical psychology and neuropsychology in psychiatry.
• Clinical psychopathology.
• Drug abuse and new types of addictions.
• Emergency and disaster psychiatry.
• Ethical and legal issues in psychiatry.
• Gerontopsychiatry.
• Mental disorders in primary care and general medicine.
• Mental health – social, cultural, age and gender aspects.
• Neurosciences and psychiatry.
• Psychosocial therapy and rehabilitation.
• Psychotherapeutic approaches in psychiatric practice.
• Stigmatization, compliance and life quality of mentally ill patients.
• Suicidology.

Pre-congress discussion on classification
(WHO/Russian Society of Psychiatrists)
June 8-9, 2010, 30 participants
Development of mental disorders classification
Valery Krasnov, Geoffrey Reed, Nikolay Neznanov

Post-congress Fellow workshop
June 12-14, 2010, 15 participants Norman Sartorius