26 Forthcoming international events 5–7 July 2005 20–21 October 2005 Meeting Mental Health Needs: The Evidence from 4th European Conference on Violence in Clinical Psychiatry Epidemiology, Economics and Evaluation Otto Wagner Hospital, Vienna, Austria. WPA-sponsored conference, WPA Section on Epidemiology Email: [email protected] and Public Health. Website: http://www.oudconsultancy.nl Brisbane, Australia. International Contact: Professor Philip Burgess 20–23 October 2005 Email: [email protected] Fourth International Congress on Vascular Dementia Website: http://www.icms.com.au/ephm2005 Porto, Portugal. Contact: Kenes International – Global Congress Organisers 11–12 July 2005 and Association Management Services, 17 Rue du Cendrier, Psychiatry Second International Conference on Conflict, Culture PO Box 1726, CH-1211 Geneva 1, Switzerland. and Mental Health: The Contribution of Psychiatry Tel: +41 22 908 0488 and Psychotherapy to Conflict Resolution and Harm Fax: +41 22 732 2850 Reduction Email: [email protected] Issue 9, July 2005 Bulletin of the Board of International Affairs of the Royal College of Psychiatrists Institute of Psychiatry, London, UK. Website: http://www.kenes.com/vascular Contact: Rachel Jenkins Email: [email protected] 30 October–2 November 2005 Contents Website: http://www.leedsmentalhealth.nhs.uk/andrew-sims/ WPA Regional Meeting, Mexican Psychiatric Association Los Cabos, Mexico. Editorial Contact: Dr Luis E. Rivero Almanzor 24–27 July 2005 Email: http://[email protected] Doctors’ health and performance Improving Access and Delivery of Mental Health Care in South Asia Hamid Ghodse 1 South Asian Forum on Mental Health and Psychiatry, United 3–6 November 2005 55th Annual Meeting of the Canadian Psychiatric Association Kingdom Chapter. WPA co-sponsored conference, with the Thematic papers – Women’s mental health in a context of violence, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Sri Lankan College of Psychiatrists and the World Association exploitation and oppression Email: [email protected] for Psychosocial Rehabilitation. Colombo, Sri Lanka. Website: http://www.cpa-apc.org Introduced by David Skuse 2 Contact: Dr Afzal Javed 12–13 November 2005 Email: http://[email protected] The confluence of violence towards an intimate partner, substance 1st Asia-Pacific Conference on Trauma Psychology: Life misuse and mental health: a worldwide problem affecting women Adversities and Challenges 28–31 July 2005 Chinese University of Hong Kong. Cari Jo Clark and Grace Wyshak 3 Trauma. New Developments in Psychoanalysis Email: [email protected] 44th Congress of the International Psychoanalytical Psychosocial and cultural motivations for self-inflicted burns among Association. 15–18 November 2005 Iranian women Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. XIV Russian Congress of Psychiatry Abdolaziz Rastegar Lari, Reza Alaghehbandan and Website: http://www.ipa.org.uk WPA co-sponsored conference with the Russian Society of Psychiatry. Mohammad Taghi Joghataei 5 4–8 September 2005 Email: [email protected] World Federation of Mental Health: Equity and Mental Attitudes to women and their mental health Health 16–20 November 2005 in Mexico Cairo, Egypt. WPA Regional Meeting and XIX Congreso Nacional de la Maria Elena Medina-Mora and Maria Asunción Lara 6 Email: [email protected]; Asociacion Psiquiatric Mexicana [email protected]. Los Cabos, Mexico. Website: www.wfmh2005.com. Contact: Dr Luis E. Rivero Almanzor Country profiles Email: http://[email protected] Psychiatry in Spain 8–9 September 2005 Juan J. López-Ibor and Blanca Reneses 8 Confidentiality and Privacy in Healthcare 17–20 November 2005 EuroSOCAP Workshop. 2nd Congress of the International Society on Brain and Psychiatry in Venezuela Brussels, Belgium. Behaviour Email: [email protected] Thessaloniki, Greece. Edgard Belfort and Javier González 11 Website: http://www.eurosocap.org Website: http://www.psychiatry.gr/intro_brain2_eng.html Mental health services in Norway 10–15 September 2005 25–26 November 2005 Jan Olav Johannessen, Bjarte Stubhaug and Jan Skandsen 13 XIII World Congress of Psychiatry Second Workshop of Franciacorta. New Developments on Diagnosis and Treatment of Mood Disorders World Psychiatric Association. Special paper WPA Section on Private Practice. Cairo, Egypt. Establishing a mental health system in the Occupied Palestinian Contact: Professor Ahmed Okasha Provaglio d’Iseo, Brescia, Italy. Email: [email protected] Contact: Dr Giuseppe Tavormina Territories Email: [email protected] Website: http://www.wpa-cairo2005.com Website: http://www.censtupsi.org Rita Giacaman, Neil Arya and Derek Summerfield 16

12–16 September 2005 25–27 November 2005 Associations and collaborations World Congress: International Association for Suicide Second International Mental Health and Cultural The American Psychiatric Association Prevention (IASP) Psychiatry Conference WPA Suicidiology Section, International Association for WPA co-sponsored conference with the Indo-Australasian Psy- Michelle B. Riba, Steven S. Sharfstein and Allan Tasman 18 Suicide Prevention. chiatric Association, Australasian South Asian Psychiatry Forum. Contact: Dr Lourens Schlebusch Sydney, Australia. The Royal College of Psychiatrists goes ‘international’: the European Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] International Division Website: http://www.interaction.nu.ac.za/IASP2005 Athanasios Douzenis, Nikos Christodoulou and 2–4 December 2005 6–8 October 2005 First Conference of the South Asian for Regional George Christodoulou 21 V European Congress on Mental Health in Mental Cooperation (SAARC) Psychiatric Federation Retardation: Integrating Research and Practice WPA co-sponsored conference. News and notes 23 Barcelona, Spain. Agra, India. Correspondence 25 Contact: Dr Luis Salvador-Carulla Contact: Dr Roy Abraham Kallivayalil. Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected]; [email protected]; Forthcoming international events 26 Website: http://www.aeecrm.com [email protected]

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