New perspectives in transcultural psychiatry

Panel one - Searching for a Culturally Tailored Psychiatry

Chair: Burcu Alcan

• Paul Marquis, ‘Institutional Psychotherapy’ in Colonial Algeria, Cultural ‘Revolution’ or Political Utopia? Therapeutic reforms in the Psychiatric Hospital of Blida-Joinville during the Algerian War of Independence (1954-1962)
• Kutlughan Soyubol, Finding Ruh in the Forebrain: Mazhar Osman and the Emerging Turkish Psychiatric Discourse
• Irène Favier, Unlike father, unlike son. A crossed-biographical perspective on two founding figures of Peruvian psychiatry

Panel two - Alternative geographies of transcultural psychiatry

Chair: Ana Antic

• Shilpi Rajpal, Decolonising Psychiatry; the Global Mental Health Movement in India, 1920-1980s
• Nathanaelle Soler, The ‘Mythical Mind’ and the City: Missionary Ethnology, Urban Development and the Birth of Ethnopsychiatry in New Caledonia in the 1960s
• Andres Rios-Molina, ‘Folk Psychiatry’ in Peru. Three Psychiatrists Seeing Native Peruvians Insanity during the first half of 20th century

Panel one- Alternative structures, treatments and actors

Chair: Anita Von Poser

• Raphaël Gallien, Transforming the asylum into a therapeutic village: Decolonizing the daily life of the asylum (Madagascar, 1959-1972)
• Nancy Rose Hunt, A Wide, Uneven Trauma Zone: Talk, Experiments, Therapies, and Enmities in Congo’s Kivus and Rwanda
• Anjana Bala, The Psychic Life of the Corporeal

Coffee break

Film screening – Harmoni: Healing Together (Together for mental health) – followed by a debate with Erminia Colucci, Lily Kpobi and Diana Setiyawati

Moderator: Ana Antic

Panel three - Re-imagining the subjects of transcultural psychiatry

Chair: Romain Tiquet

• Omnia El-Shakry, Invisible Bodies: Psychoanalysis, Subjugated Knowledges, and Intimate Ethics in Postwar Egypt
• Lamia Moghnieh, Involutional Melancholia, Psychiatry and Society in late 1930s Lebanon: Rereading Gender, Modernity and illness in the case of May Ziade
• Marianna Scarfone, What was colonial about metropolitan psychiatry? The ‘syndrome nord-africain’ in the clinical files (1930-1970)
• Chris Sandal-Wilson, Palestinian patients and psychiatrists across the end of the British mandate, 1948

Panel two - Knowledge circulations and connexions

Chair: Katie Kilroy-Marac 

• Margherita Angelini, Dignity for All: Italian Mental Health Reform across borders
• Cecilia Dracchio, Remotely pharmaceutical? Rethinking Global Mental Health and the pharmaceuticalisation of the self from rural Ghana
• Emmanuel Delille, The Interuniversity Research Group in Medical Anthropology and Ethnopsychiatry (GIRAME, 1982): Mental health, bilingualism and multicultural politics in Canada
• Michael Suter, The politics of ethnopsychology in the long moment of decolonization: psychoanalysis between West Africa and the European New Left

Panel three - Institutions, (professional) networks and practices of global psychiatry

Chair: Gabriel Abarca-Brown

• Jennifer Lambe, Mind Wars: Psychiatry and its Critics across the Florida Straits
• Claire Edington, ‘Bandung as Method’ and the possibilities for a decolonial history of psychiatry
• David Robertson, Reliability as Enculturation: Instruments and Practices of Collective Observation in Postwar Psychiatric Epidemiology
• Sofie Baarnhielm, Cultural Formulation Interview in DSM-V

Coffee break

Round table on sources, methodology and ethics (Katie Kilroy-Marac, Lamia Moghnieh, Amira Yahiaoui, Pradipto Roy)

Moderated by Romain Tiquet.

Panel one - The politics of transcultural psychiatry

Chair: Christopher Chamberlin

• Marco Ramos, Ghosts in the Archive: Psychoanalysis and Terror in Cold War Argentina
• Michael Pettit, ‘Angela’s Psych Squad’: Black Psychology against the American Carceral State in the 1970s
• Muhammad Usama Rafi, The Anti-colonial Mind: Wulf Sach’s Black Hamlet and Psychiatry in Late Colonial Africa

Panel two- Migration and refugees

Chair: Lamia Moghnieh

• Baher Ibrahim, Uprooting, Trauma, and Confinement: Psychiatry in Refugee Camps
• Mostafa Hosseini and Elisabeth Punzi, Afghan unaccompanied refugee minors and the need to problematize and challenge Western perspectives on ‘mental illness’: Results from a Swedish interview study

Concluding remarks and final discussion: Future directions in transcultural psychiatry (Lamia, Romain and Ana)