Peace, Conflict, and Reconciliation: Contributions of Cultural Psychiatry

Reconciliation and conflict resolution

The three thematic papers in this issue, and the guest editorial by John, Lord Alderice, speak for themselves and pointedly and poignantly show how psychiatrists cannot abdicate from the challenge of reconciliation and conflict resolution, whether this is within families, across ethnic or political divides or in the aftermath of war. The understanding of group dynamics, the mechanisms of projec...

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History of Contemporary Cultural Psychiatry in Iran:

Cultural psychiatry is one of the relatively new trends in psychiatry that has received much attention today. During the last century, many Iranian psychiatrists have taken steps to introduce various aspects of cultural psychiatry from the field of epidemiology to the cultural conceptualization of psychiatric disorders. This article tries to refer to the history of contemporary cultural psychia...

Military Psychiatry in Peace and War

lost ten millions of its best lives as a result of the exclusion of the intellect from the general direction of society, and although the furious rush of normal and intellectual energy which the war called into being is already reduced to a mere trickle in comparison, there is every reason to hope that the medical profession of Great Britain, if not its general public also, is at last about to ...

Reconciliation and psychiatry in South Africa

Although psychiatrists did not form part of the structures of the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC), the Society of Psychiatrists of South Africa (SPSA) at the time did make a submission. Since then, the local association of psychiatrists has been reconstituted as the South African Society of Psychiatrists (SASOP). Psychiatry and psychiatrists may have to extend their acti...