Congress of psychiatry

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Jean Delay Prize
Jules Angst is awarded the WPA Jean Delay Prize 
2017. The Jean Delay Prize is the most prestigious 
award that WPA gives triennially. It is awarded to 
an individual who has made a major contribution 
in the biological, psychological or social aspects 
of psychiatry or has built useful bridges between 
them. 
Jules Angst, Department of Psychiatry, Psychotherapy 
and Psychosomatics, University of Zurich, Switzerland is 
awarded the WPA Jean Delay Prize 2017. At its meeting, 
the International Jury unanimously decided to award the 
Prize to him. This consists of a certificate and a cheque 
for EUR 40,000 paid for by SERVIER. The Prize will be 
presented by WPA President Dinesh Bhugra at the open-
ing ceremony of the World Congress of Psychiatry, Ber-
lin on Oct 8, 2017. Hearty congratulations to Jules Angst 
on this achievement.
Bio sketch
Jules Angst, MD, is Emeritus 
Professor of Psychiatry at the 
University of Zurich, Switzer-
land and Honorary Doctor of 
the Universities of Heidelberg, 
Germany, and Craiova, Romania. 
In his early twenties Jules Angst 
qualified as a Jungian analyst. 
He trained in psychiatry under Manfred Bleuler at the 
Zurich University Psychiatric Hospital (the Burghölzli), 
where he went on to head the Research Department 
from 1969 until his retirement in 1994. His publica-
tions span the past 60 years of clinical psychiatry. He 
remains active in epidemiological and clinical research. 
Jules Angst's monograph (1966) established and validat-
ed the distinction between bipolar disorder, depression, 
and schizoaffective disorders on the basis of genetics, 
course, and personality. Later patient studies led to the 
development of a new mood spectrum concept of three 
dimensions: syndrome (mania to depression), severity 
(normal to psychotic) and temperament. He proposed 
improved diagnostic concepts of bipolar-I and bipolar-II 
disorders. His early work in clinical psychopharmacolo-
gy established the efficacy of and the familial response 
to imipramine (1964). On the basis of multicentre stud-
ies he provided statistical evidence for the long-term ef-
ficacy of lithium (1970). His more recent work focused 
on the long-term prophylactic role of antidepressants 
and atypical neuroleptics in suicide prevention, the early 
onset of action of antidepressants, "drug-induced” hy-
pomania, and the effect of lithium against dementia in 
patients with mood disorders.
Award Ceremony: 8 Oct 2017 
17:30 – 19:15 
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 Hall B
Laudation: 
Dinesh Bhugra, United Kingdom
Session: Opening Ceremony
Prize money: EUR 40,000
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 supported by SERVIER

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Awards
Recognition of excellent achievements
DGPPN Awards 2017:  
Professional association acknowledges outstanding achievements  
 
The DGPPN acknowledges outstanding work and projects in the field of psychiatry and psychotherapy with a num-
ber of prestigious awards. In addition to science, research and care, social issues are also one of the main focuses. 
The awards carry a total prize money of EUR 96,500.
I. Science and Research 
DGPPN Research Award for Predictive,  
Preventive and Personalised Medicine in  
Psychiatry and Neurology
Award Ceremony: 10 Oct 2017 
17:00 – 18:00 
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  Hall A6 / 7
Laudation: 
Andreas Meyer-Lindenberg, Germany
Keynote Lecture: Schizophrenie: von der Pathophysiolo-
gie zur Therapie – ein Mythos?
Peter Falkai, Germany
Prize money: EUR 10,000
DGPPN Doctoral Thesis Award –  
Hans-Heimann Award
Award Ceremony: 10 Oct 2017 
15:15 – 16:15 
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 Hall B
Laudation: 
Arno Deister, Germany
Keynote Lecture: Irrbilder und Vorbilder – wie gelingt 
die mediale Darstellung von seelischer Gesundheit und 
Psychiatrie
Eckart von Hirschhausen, Germany
Prize money: 3 x EUR 6,000
DGPPN Award for Research on Mental Disorders
Award Ceremony: 11 Oct 2017 
11:45 – 12:45 
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 Hall A8
Laudation: 
Sabine C. Herpertz, Germany
Keynote Lecture: Frühintervention bei Essstörungen
Ulrike Schmidt, United Kingdom
Prize money: EUR 15,000
DGPPN Poster Awards
Award Ceremony: 12 Oct 2017 
11:45 – 13:15 
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  Hall   A6 / 7
Laudation: 
Andreas Küthmann, Germany
Keynote Lecture: Irre – wir behandeln die Falschen: 
Unser Problem sind die Normalen
Manfred Lütz, Germany
Prize money: 10 x EUR 500
II. Health Care Research 
DGPPN Award for Health Care Research in  
Psychiatry and Psychotherapy
Award Ceremony: 9 Oct 2017 
10:00 – 11:00 
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 Hall A8
Laudation: 
Iris Hauth, Germany
Keynote Lecture: Zukunft der psychiatrischen  
Versorgung
Arno Deister, Germany
Prize money: EUR 10,000
DGPPN Award for Nursing and Health  
Professions in Psychiatry, Psychotherapy  
and Psychosomatics
Award Ceremony: 10 Oct 2017 
11:45 – 13:00 
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 Hall A3
Laudation: 
Arno Deister, Germany
Keynote Lecture: Future of nursing: an underutilized 
global force to address and promote mental health
Edilma L. Yearwood and Vicki Hines-Martin, USA
Prize money: EUR 5,000

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III. Psychiatry in the Social Context 
DGPPN Antistigma Award – Advancement Award 
for the De-stigmatisation of Mental Illness
Award Ceremony: 12 Oct 2017 
10:00 – 11:00 
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 Hall A8
Laudation: 
Wolfgang Gaebel, Germany
Keynote Lecture: Recovery: was wirkt.
Michaela Amering, Austria
Prize money: EUR 10,000
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 in Kooperation mit dem Aktionsbündnis Seelische 
Gesundheit
DGPPN Media Award for Scientific Journalism
Award Ceremony: 11 Oct 2017 
17:00 – 18:00 
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 Hall B
Laudation: 
Iris Hauth, Germany
Keynote Lecture: Forensische Psychiatrie: Schlusslicht 
oder Schaufenster der Psychiatrie?
Norbert Nedopil, Germany
Prize money: EUR 15,000
DGPPN Award for Philosophy and Ethics in  
Psychiatry and Psychotherapy
Award Ceremony: 11 Oct 2017  
13:30 – 14:30 
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 Hall A8
Laudation: 
Martin Heinze, Germany
Keynote Lecture: Autonomie und psychische Störung – 
Überlegungen zu einer Kernaufgabe der Psychiatrie in 
Versorgung, Forschung und Lehre
Paul Hoff, Switzerland
Prize money: EUR 6,000
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 supported by the Institute of Science and  
Ethics Bonn (IWE)
DGPPN Best Paper Award
For outstanding publications in Der Nervenarzt
Award Ceremony: 10 Oct 2017 
15:15 – 16:45 
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  Room  M4 / M5
Laudation: 
Wolfgang Maier, Germany
Symposium: Kann man durch Resilienztraining psy-
chische Erkrankungen verhindern?
Prize money: EUR 2,500
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 supported by Springer Medizin
Closing Ceremony
Thu, 12 Oct 2017 | 12:00 – 13:00 | Hall A8
Welcome address WPA President
Dinesh Bhugra, United Kingdom
WPA Honorary Members and Fellows Announcement and Presidential Commendations
Award Ceremony Geneva Prize for Human Rights in Psychiatry
Laudation: François Ferrero, Switzerland & Dinesh Bhugra, United Kingdom
Laureate: Jorge Alejandro Paiz Macz, Guatemala
Closing statement WPA President
Dinesh Bhugra, United Kingdom 

FOCUS ON MENTAL HEALTH 
The DGPPN is the largest scientifi c medical association focussing on mental health in 
Germany. It pools the competence of 9,000 doctors and scientists in the fi elds of 
psychiatry, psychotherapy and psychosomatics who work in university and non-university 
hospitals, in offi  ce-based practices and in research. 
The association campaigns for the optimal care of 
patients with mental illnesses. It develops scientifi c 
guidelines, promotes training and further and continu-
ing education and is involved in research into mental 
illnesses to advance diagnostics and treatment. The 
main focus is thereby on the holistic view of people and 
their individual mental, physical and social characteris-
tics. The DGPPN actively advocates for the participation 
of people with mental illness in society and against 
their stigmatisation.
© Holger Schwarz
At your service and 
always on site! 
Visit the DGPPN booth at level 2 in 
the main foyer of the CityCube. 
On that occasion take a picture in our 
photo booth.

Psychiatry and art
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Psychiatry in the time of National Socialism
Exhibitions and sessions
The period of National Socialism is the darkest chapter in the history of psychiatry  
in Germany and thus also in the history of the DGPPN predecessor organisations.  
People with physical and mental impairments were systematically persecuted and exter-
minated – in the midst of German society – and psychiatrists were partly responsible.
Registered, persecuted, annihilated: the Sick and 
the Disabled under National Socialism
In 2009 the DGPPN acknowledged its special responsi-
bility resulting from the involvement of its predecessor 
organisations in the crimes of National Socialism, the 
killing of huge numbers of ill people and forced sterili-
sations. It initiated a research project that culminated in 
2014 in the German- and English-language travelling exhi-
bition “registered, persecuted, annihilated”. Meanwhile, 
more than 300,000 visitors have seen the exhibition  
nationally and internationally. The exhibition will be  
on display during the World Congress 2017.
The exhibition is specifically aimed at a wide audience. 
Using the question of the value of life as a guiding prin-
ciple, it considers the intellectual and institutional pre-
conditions of the killings, summarises the events from 
exclusion and forced sterilisations up to the Holocaust, 
presents examples of victims, perpetrators, accomplic-
es and opponents and finally looks into how the events 
of that period have been dealt with from 1945 until the 
present day.
Sunday to Thursday 
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 Hall B
As part of the Scientific Visits, you will have the oppor-
tunity to visit sites in Berlin relevant for the history of 
psychiatry. Additional information can be found on page 
340.
Dorothea Buck – a special destiny
Born in 1917, Dorothea Buck was overcome by a severe 
mental crisis at the age of nineteen. During the Third  
Reich, she was classified as a minor human being be-
cause of her diagnosis of schizophrenia. In accordance 
with the Nazi race policies she was forcibly sterilised 
in 1936. A few years later she barely escaped “euthana-
sia”. Contrary to all prognoses – related to her incurable 
mental illness – Dorothea Buck tried to understand what 
drove her into psychosis and developed her own theory 
of her illness. Through this process she found the key to 
her own sanity. This development is inseparably linked 
with her evolution to an expressive and highly distin-
guished sculptress.
Dorothea Buck's artistic work has gained particular sig-
nificance. Her accentuated lines give rise to impressive 
sculptures that appear to evoke what she was denied in 
the so-called sanatoriums: human attention and warmth. 
The film “The sky and beyond” depicts the life and work 
of this extraordinary woman, who is now 100 years old.
Exhibition: 
Dorothea Buck
Sunday to Thursday 
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 Hall B
Documentary: 
 
The sky and beyond
Mon, 9 Oct 2017 
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  15:15 – 17:45 
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 Hall London 1

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Artists as victims and survivors of  
National Socialism
The life and work of artists with mental illness represent 
a special challenge and opportunity in the discussion of 
the Nazi and post-war periods: through their art, we en-
counter people with an evocative destiny. The pictures 
move us by creating a personal and active dialogue.
The exhibition focusses on two artists, the architect and 
painter Paul Goesch, born in 1885, and the locksmith 
Julius Klingebiel (1904 – 1965). Their paintings stand 
for the numerous patients who became victims of Nazi 
psychiatry. Paul Goesch created important expressionist 
paintings while still in a mental asylum. He was killed 
in Brandenburg in 1940. Julius Klingebiel was forcibly 
sterilised, avoided the killing campaigns and survived 
the war. In the post-war period he created a solitary art 
environment (“Raumkunstwerk”) in his cell which will be 
shown at the congress. 
Exhibition: 
 
Artists as victims and survivors of NS psychiatry
Sunday to Thursday 
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 Hall B
Accompanying symposium: 
Artists as victims and survivors of National 
Socialism – commemoration in Germany and the 
challenges today
Tue, 10 Oct 2017 
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  11:45 – 13:15 
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 Hall London 1
Documentary: 
Outbreak in the art – Julius Klingebiel's Cell
Thu, 12 Oct 2017 
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  11:45 – 13:15 
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 Hall London 1
Registered, persecuted, annihilated: 
guided exhibition tours 
German-language and English-language tours 
are offered on 9 October I 15:00 and 17:00 
and on 11 October I 13:30.
Please meet your guide 10 minutes earlier in 
Hall B where the exhibition is located.

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Exhibition: People in Chains
In villages of the Ivory Coast and Benin, thousands of mentally ill people live as so-
called “people in chains”. They are chained to trees or locked into dark crates. They 
are tethered up like animals, sometimes for weeks, sometimes for years. Some die in 
captivity. Society is afraid of them; the belief still prevails that mentally ill people are 
possessed by demons.
Monday to Thursday 
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 Hall 2.2
The local organisation St. Camille de Lellis has been 
working since 1991 to free these people from their 
chains and care for them appropriately in treatment 
centres. The non-profit organisation “Freundeskreis St. 
Camille“, based in Reutlingen, Germany, has been sup-
porting these efforts for more than 20 years through per-
sonal engagement, food and medicine. The aim is for the 
mentally ill people to return to their villages and receive 
long-term psychopharmaceutical treatment. The best 
way to enlighten people is to re-integrate the mentally ill 
into their communities and thus take away people's fear, 
particularly from the families.
The exhibition “People in Chains: how mentally ill peo-
ple are dealt with in West Africa” was designed by the 
museum MuSeele, a museum on the history of psychia-
try located in the psychiatric hospital Christophsbad in 
Göppingen, Germany, in collaboration with the “Freun-
deskreis St. Camille“. This travelling exhibition consists 
of large-format colour photographs by the photogra-
phers Heinz Heiss and Uli Reinhardt together with short 
explanatory texts. An accompanying brochure provides 
additional background information. 
www.kettenmenschen.de
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Exhibition: Being A Human
“What interests me is – being a human” said Dr. Rieux in Camus' novel “The Plague”. 
“Being A Human” is a collection of photographs portraying people in Jimma, Ethiopia. 
These people face each other, share their day with happiness, anxiety, desperation and 
hope. Their feelings are depicted with peculiar ease. Sorrow and pessimism are seen in 
a playful and airy atmosphere.
Monday to Thursday 
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 Hall 2.2
Grace of human solidarity and joie de vivre is what we 
should not stop to learn from Camus.
Jimma stands for everywhere!
The story behind the pictures is: These individuals seek 
help for mental distress. They are patients at the Depart-
ment of Psychiatry at Jimma University in Ethiopia.
In 2010, Jimma University with Prof. Markos Tesfaye 
and the Center for International Health of Ludwig- 
Maximilians University Munich have launched a Masters 
programme for Mental Health in Jimma, a town in south-
western Ethiopia. Up to now about 50 students finished 
the programme and work as Masters for Mental Health, 
caring for the well-being of people with mental distress 
all over Ethiopia. They provide a space for an integra- 
ted understanding of mental illness – building bridges 
between traditional beliefs and modern psychiatric and 
psychotherapeutic treatments. The Masters programme 
itself is meanwhile fully organised and staffed by previ-
ous Masters.
For the Center for International Health: Sandra Dehning, 
Andrea Jobst, Kristina Adorjan
www.cih.lmu.de
Photographs by Anselm Skogstad
www.anselmskogstad.com 
© Anselm Skogstad
is supported by
with financial
support from

© Christoph Burger
Touching photography – perhaps the only people who are still interested in the mental 
asylums of the past are the photographers of the urban exploration (“Urbex”) move-
ment. Christoph Burger is one of them. Since 2013, he has made numerous trips to the 
Manicomi abbandonati of Italy. 
Monday to Thursday 
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 Hall 2.2
The history of psychiatry in Italy is one of dramas and 
tragedies. Forgotten by society, legally incapacitated, 
mentally and often also physically tormented, patients 
were locked away in inhumane conditions, deprived of 
their dignity and marginalised until far into the 20th 
century.
The darkest chapter in psychiatry was the rule of Benito 
Mussolini, which lasted from 1922 to 1943. In this peri-
od of fascist terror thousands of political dissidents and 
people out of favour with the regime were declared to 
be mentally ill and deported to a “Manicomio” – with 
the aim of destroying them mentally or even physically. 
May 1978 marked a watershed in the history of psy-
chiatry in Italy. Under the initiative of the psychiatrist 
and hospital director Franco Basaglia, the parliament in 
Rome passed the psychiatric reform. The declared aim 
was to introduce “humane psychiatry” by closing all 
Manicomi and creating sufficient places to provide out-
patient care. Although most hospitals were closed and 
many patients were released, there were problems with 
creating the new points of care. 
The bold project faltered in its early stages; no one built 
the dense network of decentralised treatment centres 
that should have accompanied the gradual closing of 
the hospitals. Apart from thoroughly laudable private 
initiatives, every effective health service for the released 
patients was lacking. 
When Christoph Burger documents the decay in al-
most inaccessible rooms, he does so without artifi-
cial light and in keeping with the Urbex rule “Take 
nothing but pictures. Leave nothing but footprints.” 
Nothing is rearranged, everything is left as it is 
found. These trips have resulted in the series of im-
ages “Manicomio”.
Photographs by Christoph Burger
www.christophburger.com
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Exhibition: Manicomio

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Music: Schumann performed by Richard Kogan
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Richard Kogan has led a distinguished career as both a professional pianist and as a 
physician. While studying medicine at Harvard, Dr. Kogan was encouraged to continue 
his music career along with his medical education. In later years, he began to merge 
these two fields and now explores the role of music in healing and discusses the impact 
of psychological and mental illnesses on the creative genius of well-known composers.