SYMPOSIA
• Epistemology and Methodology of Psychiatry
Organized by WPA Sections on Philosophy and History
Chairs: German Berrios, Drozdstoy Stoyanov
• Neurobiological research: contribution in understanding of pathogenetic mechanisms of mental disorders
Chairs: Vladimir Chekhonin, Marat Uzbekov, Y. Dwivedi
• Protection of rights of legally incapable: ways of reforming
Organized by Independent Psychiatric Association of Russia
Chairs: Yuri Savenko, Yuri Marchenko D. Bartenev
• New achievements in old age psychiatry
Chairs: Nikolay Neznanov, Svetalana Gavrilova, L.S. Kruglov
• Mental health care for old people living at residential facilities
Organized by WPA Section on Old Age Psychiatry
Chairs: Carlos Augusto de Mendonca Lima, John Snowdon
• Depression in children and adolescents
Chairs: Samuel Tyano, Igor Makarov, Evgeny Koren
• Evidence-based approaches to treatment of addictions: new challenges
Chairs: Evgeny Krupitsky, George Woody
• Genetics of Suicide
Organized by WPA Section of Suicidology
Chairs: Danuta Wasserman, Alec Roy
• New trends and findings in suicide prevention
Organized by WPA Section of Suicidology
Chairs: JP. Soubrier, Vladimir Carli
• Community based interventions targeting depression and suicidality
Organized by WPA Section of Suicidology
Chairs: Danuta Wasserman, Wolfgang Rutz
• Psychiatry in low-income countries
Organized by WPA Section on Psychiatry in developing countries
Chairs: Pedro Ruiz, Afzal Javed
• Stigma and how to fight it
Chairs: Miguel Jorge, Vasily Yastrebov
• Psychosomatic diseases in general medicine and in psychiatry
Chairs: Anatoly Smulevich, Michel Riba
• Managing mental health consequences of disasters
Chairs: Valery Krasnov, Dusica Lecic Tosevski, George Christodoulou, Ahmed Okasha
• Dynamic psychiatry as integrative approach of psychoanalysis, groupdynamics and psychiatry
Organized by WPA section on Psychoanalysis in Psychiatry
Chairs: Viktor Wied, Maria Ammon, Illse Burbiel
• Mental health problems in primary care: diagnostics and prevention
Chairs: Levent Kuey, Valery Krasnov
• Gender aspects in psychiatry
Chairs: Anna Maria Leimkuehler, Margarita Kachaeva
• Current clinical problems of therapeutic research in schizophrenia
Chairs: Hans-Juergen Moeller, Sergey Mosolov, Mikhail Ivanov
• Schizophrenia: evolution of concept and of treatment approaches
Chairs: Wolfgang Gaebel, Alexandr Kotsyubinsky, Alexander Shmukler
• Psychiatry and clinical psychology: common issues and tasks
Chairs: Meinrad Perrez, Alla Kholmogorova
• Russia/USA cooperation in psychiatry
Chairs: Eliot Sorel, Valery Krasnov, Zurab Kekelidze
• Organic pathology in mental disorders
Chairs: Vladimir Kalinin
• Neurobiological and clinical aspects of anxiety
Chairs: Aleksey Bobrov, Alexander Bystritsky
Presentation of the WPA Educational Programme on Depression
Chairs: Norman Sartorius, Valery Krasnov, Mario Maj, Allan Tasman
Panel discussions
• Person-centered Clinical Communication
Chair: Juan E. Mezzich
• Ethical and legal aspects of psychiatry at different times
Chairs: Jerker Hanson, Wolfgang Rutz
• Integrative correction of mental and behavioral disorders in children and adolescents
Chairs: Edmond Eidemiller, Sergey Igumnov, Yury Shevchenko
