Congress of psychiatry

severe dual diagnosis: available evidence, current 
treatment models, and new directions
Christian G. Schütz, Canada
004
  Suicidal behavior in older adults with dual 
disorders
Leo Sher, USA
S-388 Symposium
11:45 – 13:15
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Room  M4 / M5
TOPIC 11:
 Other disorders
Intersectional educational and training programme II
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 WPA Section: Genetics in Psychiatry
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 WPA Section: HIV / AIDS Psychiatry
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 WPA Section: Perinatal Psychiatry and Infant Mental 
Health
Chairs: 
Thomas G. Schulze, Germany 
Raju M. S. V. K., India
001
  Aspects of rewards and punishments in schools 
and their relevance for the mental health of students
Raju M. S. V. K., India
002
  Novel paradigms for perinatal psychiatry
Gisèle Apter, France
003
  Global child mental health: WPA child and 
adolescent psychiatry section's perspective
Norbert Skokauskas, Norway
004
  HIV, the great magnifier of maladies, is entirely 
preventable
Mary Ann Adler Cohen, USA
S-389 Symposium
11:45 – 13:15
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Room M1
TOPIC 25:
 Training and continuing education
Psychiatric education of medical students: perspec-
tives from the WPA education section
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 WPA Section: Early Career Psychiatrists
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 WPA Section: Education in Psychiatry
Chairs: 
Renato Alarcon, USA 
Allan Tasman, USA
001
  Curricular content
Pichet Udomratn, Thailand
002
  Didactic methodologies
Ziad Kronfol, Qatar
Adriana Mihai, Florian Riese
003
  Adaptability to different world regions
Hussien Elkholy, Egypt
004
  Future challenges
Renato Alarcon, USA
S-390 Symposium
11:45 – 13:15
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Room Weimar 3
TOPIC 16:
 Diagnostics and classification, 
psychopathology, RDoC
The role of the ICD-11 in treatment coverage for 
substance use and addictive disorders
Chairs: 
Vladimir Poznyak, Switzerland 
María Elena Medina-Mora, Mexico
001
  Proposed changes in ICD-11 for disorders due 
to substance use: perspectives for treatment cover-
age in Mexico and Latin America
María Elena Medina-Mora, Mexico
002
  Diagnostic boundaries and validity of ‘behavior-
al addictions’ in ICD-11: what matters for provision 
of treatment and its coverage
Susumu Higuchi, Japan
003
  Clinical descriptions and diagnostic guidelines 
for substance use disorders in ICD-11: implications 
for training of health professionals and provision of 
treatment
John Saunders, Australia

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S-391 Symposium
11:45 – 13:15
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Room Weimar 5
TOPIC 17:
 Psychotherapy
A new approach to short time therapy of depression: 
strategic behavior therapy and psychiatric short time 
psychotherapy
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 DÄVT – German Physician Society of Behavioral 
Therapy
Chairs: 
Georg Wiedemann, Germany 
Serge Sulz, Germany
001
  Psychiatric short-term group therapy in the 
clinic
Christian Algermissen, Germany
Nina Rösser, Andrea Melina Del Pozo
002
  Evaluation of treatment success and predicting 
factors of therapeutical changes in outpatient short 
time psychotherapy
Thomas Kaufmayer, Germany
003
  Comparison of short-term and long-term therapy 
in depression treatment
Manuel Peters, Germany
S-392 Symposium
11:45 – 13:15
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Room Weimar 1
TOPIC 2:
 Mental disorders due to psychotropic 
substances, behavioural addictions
Behavioral addictions: clinical impact and presentation
Chairs: 
Jon Grant, USA 
Samuel Chamberlain, United Kingdom
001
  Technology addiction
Samuel Chamberlain, United Kingdom
002
  Trichotillomania and skin picking
Michael Harries, USA
003
  Cross cultural issues in gambling addiction
Gustavo Medeiros, Brazil
004
  Pharmacotherapy of behavioral addictions
Jon Grant, USA
S-393 Symposium
11:45 – 13:15
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Room Lindau 6
TOPIC 34:
 Psychiatry in developing regions
Mental health legislation and its implementation in 
South Asia: challenges
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 WPA Section: Psychiatry, Law and Ethics
Chairs: 
Kuruvilla Thomas, India 
Georgios Tzeferakos, Greece
001
  The evolving new Mental Health Care Bill / Act 
of India
Joseph Varghese Puthussery, India
002
  Mental health laws and their implementation in 
Pakistan
Sayed Mohammad Sultan, Pakistan
003
  Mental health legislation and its implementation 
in South Asia: Bangladesh perspective
Mohammod Golam Rabbani, Bangladesh
Helal Uddin Ahmed
004
  Implementation of mental health laws in South 
Asia: issues and challenges
Mohan Isaac, Australia
S-394 Symposium
11:45 – 13:15
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Room R2
TOPIC 2:
 Mental disorders due to psychotropic 
substances, behavioural addictions
Telepsychiatry – a vision of the future
Chair: 
Cyrus Abbasian, United Kingdom
001
  The challenges of setting-up a telepsychiatry 
service
Cyrus Abbasian, United Kingdom
002
  Telepsychiatry and primary care interface
Chi-Chi Obuaya, United Kingdom
003
  Telepsychiatry: a vision for the future
Stephen Emran Ilyas, Germany
S-395 Symposium
11:45 – 13:15
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Room R3
TOPIC 22:
 Community and social psychiatry
Social psychiatry in South Asia
Chairs: 
Rakesh Chadda, India 
Mamta Sood, India
001
  Practice of social psychiatry in South Asia
Rajiv Gupta, India
002
  Social psychiatry and medical education in 
South Asia
Mamta Sood, India
003
  Family caregivers in South Asia
Vinay Kumar, India
004
  Role of social psychiatry in mental health  
prevention in South Asia
Uttam Garg, India
005
  Challenges to mental health in South Asia: 
solutions from social psychiatry
Rakesh Chadda, India

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 Q & A  Modul
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S-396 Symposium
11:45 – 13:15
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Room R13
TOPIC 17:
 Psychotherapy
Controversies and myths about mental health and 
the internet
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 WPA Section: Informatics & Telecommunications in 
Psychiatry
Chairs: 
Reinhard Michael Krausz, Canada 
Jürgen Gallinat, Germany
001
  Are computer games good for your brain? 
Biological and functional effects of gaming
Jürgen Gallinat, Germany
002
  Is EMH more than just a tool for the doctor? 
The patient experience!
Anil Thapliyal, New Zealand
003
  Can computer games treat anxiety?
Sally Merry, New Zealand
004
  Web programs as add-on and alternative to 
conventional care?
Laura Ospina Pinillos, Australia
Jane Burns, Tracey Davenport, Ian Hickie
S-397 Symposium
11:45 – 13:15
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Room R12
TOPIC 6:
 Eating disorders, sleep disorders and other 
disorders of this category
A transdiagnostic and dimensional exploration of 
sensitivity to social threat: implications for preven-
tion and treatment
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 WPA Section: Eating Disorders
Chairs: 
Valentina Cardi, United Kingdom 
Alessio Maria Monteleone, Italy
001
  Early negative experiences, emotion regulation 
processes and the disordered eating continuum
Cristiana Duarte, Portugal
002
  Behavioural and physiological correlates of the 
response to an acute social challenge in patients 
with eating disorders
Alessio Maria Monteleone, Italy
003
  Shared and distinct characteristics of worry and 
rumination about social relationships in individuals 
with generalised anxiety disorder and depression
Charlotte Krahé, United Kingdom
Michelle Moulds, Ed Watkins, Aaron Shamji, Colette 
Hirsch
004
  Sensitivity to the threat of social exclusion in 
patients with a lifetime diagnosis of eating disorders
Valentina Cardi, United Kingdom
S-398 Symposium
11:45 – 13:15
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Room Lindau 2
TOPIC 22:
 Community and social psychiatry
Psychiatry in Eastern Europe: problems and solutions
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 ZONE 10: Eastern Europe
Chairs: 
Petr Morozov, Russia 
Oleg Skugarevsky, Belarus
001
  Psychiatry and society alliance vs. alienation
Anna Vasileva, Russia
Nikolay Neznanov
002
  Mental health care in Azerbaijan over the last 
25 years
Nadir Ismayilov, Azerbaidshan
003
  From stationary psychiatry to alternative forms 
of mental healthcare
Tatiana Galako, Kyrgyzistan
004
  Psychiatry in Republic of Moldova: 25 years of 
development and a look into the future
Eugenia Sinitsa, Republic of Moldova
WS-28 Workshop
11:45 – 13:15
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Room M8
TOPIC 6:
 Eating disorders, sleep disorders and other 
disorders of this category
Sleep disorders through the life span: what a psy-
chiatrist should know
Chairs: 
Subhash C. Bhatia, USA 
Shashi Bhatia, USA 
Venkata Kolli, USA 
Arun Sharma, USA 
Sriram Ramaswamy, USA
FS-24-Film 
Further Session
11:45 – 13:15
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Hall London 1
 
TOPIC 28:
 History, art and cultural sciences
 
Outbreak in the art – The Cell of Julius Klinge-
biel / Ausbruch in die Kunst – Die Zelle des Julius 
Klingebiel (subtitled in English)
Chairs: 
Thomas Röske, Germany 
Asmus Finzen, Germany
Discussant: 
Andreas Spengler, Germany

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SP-08 
Special Session
12:00 – 13:00
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Hall A8
 
Closing ceremony
Chairs: 
Dinesh Bhugra, United Kingdom 
Helen Herrman, Australia
Award Ceremony: 
Geneva Prize
Laudation to Jorge Alejandro Paiz Macz:
  
François Ferrero, Switzerland 
Dinesh Bhugra, United Kingdom
FS-25 
Further Session
13:00 – 17:00
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Hall New York 2
TOPIC 17:
 Psychotherapy
eMEN: Getting in touch with digital interventions 
for mental health: practical insights for health 
professionals
Chairs: 
Wolfgang Gaebel, Germany
Iris Hauth, Germany
001
  Welcome note
Oyona Vlijter, The Netherlands
002
  Learning from Sweden: e-mental health in 
research and care
Gerhard Andersson, Sweden
003
  Quality criteria for e-mental health in Germany
Jan Philipp Klein, Germany
004
  Blended-care in clinical daily routine: experiences 
in Germany
Rüdiger Zwerenz, Germany
005
  Self-help treatment programmes: prospects 
and boundaries
GET.ON Institute, Germany
006
  Virtual reality: the third dimension of psycho-
therapy
Youssef Shiban, Germany
ST-32 (d) 
State-of-the-Art-Symposium
13:30 – 15:00
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Hall A8
 
TOPIC 4:
 Affective disorders
 
Unipolare Depression
Chairs: 
Max Schmauß, Germany 
Mathias Berger, Germany
001
  Pharmakotherapie der unipolaren Depression
Max Schmauß, Germany
002
  Psychotherapie in der Depressionsbehandlung
Mathias Berger, Germany
ST-33 (d) 
State-of-the-Art-Symposium
13:30 – 15:00
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Hall A5
 
TOPIC 5:
 Neurotic, stress-related and somatoform 
disorders
 
Chronischer Schmerz: viszeraler Schmerz
Chairs: 
Karl-Jürgen Bär, Germany 
Adriane Icenhour, Germany
001
  Die Rolle viszeraler Schmerzen bei psychiatri-
schen Erkrankungen
Karl-Jürgen Bär, Germany
002
  Viszeraler Schmerz aus lerntheoretischer 
Perspektive: neurobiologische Mechanismen und 
klinische Implikationen
Adriane Icenhour, Germany
S-399 Symposium
13:30 – 15:00
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Hall  A6 / A7
 
TOPIC 9:
 Comorbidity of somatic and mental disorders, 
psychosomatics
Depression and cardiovascular risk: from mechanisms 
to therapy
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 DGPPN Section: Psychosomatics
Chairs: 
Christian Otte, Germany 
Brenda Penninx, The Netherlands
001
 Epidemiology
Brenda Penninx, The Netherlands
002
 Mechanisms
Michael Deuschle, Germany
003
 Psychotherapy
Ulrich Schweiger, Germany
004
 Pharmacotherapy
Christian Otte, Germany
S-400 Symposium
13:30 – 15:00
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Hall A1
 
TOPIC 8:
 Disorders closely related to childhood and 
adolescence
Child and adolescent psychiatry: an update
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 WPA Section: Child & Adolescent Psychiatry
Chairs: 
Norbert Skokauskas, Norway 
Helen Herrman, Australia
001
  Introduction to the global child and adolescent 
mental health
Norbert Skokauskas, Norway
002
  Presidential initiative and youth mental health
Helen Herrman, Australia

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  Where is in the world child and adolescent 
psychiatry: looking back and looking forward
Bennett Leventhal, USA
004
  The future in mind: mental health service models 
for children and adolescents
Gordana Milavic, United Kingdom
S-401 Symposium
13:30 – 15:00
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Hall A4
 
TOPIC 14:
 Neurobiology and genetics
Psychiatric genetics 2017: understanding autism, 
affective and non-affective psychoses through SNPs, 
CNVs, induced Pluripotent Stem Cells (iPSCs) and... 
sophisticated phenotyping!
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 WPA Section: Genetics in Psychiatry
Chairs: 
Thomas G. Schulze, Germany 
Dan Rujescu, Germany
001
  Molecular-genetic correlates of long-term 
outcome in psychoses: what can be done with a 
well-characterised cohort?
Monika Budde, Germany
002
  Common genetic causes of autism and schizo-
phrenia
Rainald Mössner, Germany
003
  Differentiated neurons from induced Pluripo-
tent Stem Cells (iPSCs): a model to study the molec-
ular biology of schizophrenia
Pablo V. Gejman, USA
S-402 Symposium
13:30 – 15:00
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Hall Helsinki 1
 
TOPIC 35:
 Psychiatry and society
Social aesthetics in psychiatry: the impact of 
atmospheres on psychopathologic diagnosis and 
treatment
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 WPA Section: Clinical Psychopathology
Chairs: 
Maria Luísa Figueira, Portugal 
Michael Musalek, Austria
001
  Atmospheres and their impact on well-being of 
patients
Guenda Bernegger, Switzerland
002
  Strange feelings of patients in strange settings
Luis Madeira, Portugal
003
  Provoking emotions with films – diagnostic and 
therapeutic implications
Martin Poltrum, Austria
004
  Hospitality in hospitals: the clinical relevance of 
social aesthetics approach
Michael Musalek, Austria
S-403 Symposium
13:30 – 15:00
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Hall Helsinki 2
 
TOPIC 28:
 History, art and cultural sciences
An old hat? Historical psychopathological concepts 
from German-speaking countries in light of current- 
day debates
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 DGPPN Section: History of Psychiatry
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 DGPPN Section: Philosophical Foundations of Psychia-
try and Psychotherapy
Chairs: 
Ekkehardt Kumbier, Germany 
Paul Hoff, Switzerland
001
  Psychiatry and philosophy – Karl Jaspers' idea 
of psychopathology
Matthias Bormuth, Germany
002
  The concept of unitary psychosis and its signif-
icance for today's debate on classification of mental 
disorders
Ekkehardt Kumbier, Germany
003
  The Wernicke-Kleist-Leonhard School of 
psychopathology and its relevance for present-day 
psychiatry
Markus Jäger, Germany
004
  Eugen Bleuler's schizophrenia – linking debates 
about its nosological status, psychopathological 
description and socio-cultural reception
Anke Maatz, Switzerland
Paul Hoff
S-405 Symposium
13:30 – 15:00
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Hall Paris 2
 
TOPIC 16:
 Diagnostics and classification, 
psychopathology, RDoC
Diagnosis and differential diagnoses of autism  
spectrum disorders (ASD) across the lifespan and 
the whole level of functioning
Chairs: 
Tanja Sappok, Germany 
Angela Hassiotis, United Kingdom
001
  Diagnosis and differential diagnoses of ASD in 
children
Inge Kamp-Becker, Germany
002
  Diagnosing high-functioning ASD in adults
Ludger Tebartz van Elst, Germany
003
  Screening for ASD in people with ID
Tanja Sappok, Germany
004
  Comprehensive diagnostic assessment of ASD 
in adults with ID
Thomas Bergmann, Germany

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S-406 Symposium
13:30 – 15:00
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Hall New York 1
 
TOPIC 3:
 Psychotic disorders
Evidence-based treatment for schizophrenia: recent 
findings from network meta analyses
Chairs: 
Stefan Leucht, Germany 
Toshiaki Furukawa, Japan
001
  Efficacy and side effects of antipsychotics – 
results from a network meta-analysis examining 24 
antipsychotics
Maximilian Huhn, Germany
002
  Treatment with second-generation-antipsychot-
ics and mortality
Johannes Schneider-Thoma, Germany
003
  The next step in evidence-based treatment of 
schizophrenia: individualizing the care for important 
patient subgroups
Marc Krause, Germany
004
  Comparative efficacy of psychological treatments 
for schizophrenia: a network meta-analysis
Irene Bighelli, Germany
S-407 Symposium
13:30 – 15:00
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Hall London 2
 
TOPIC 36:
 Social determinants of mental health
Cognitive, psychosocial and psychoneurobiological 
approaches to resilience
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 WPA Section: Disaster Psychiatry
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 WPA Section: Psychoneuroendocrinology
Chairs: 
Diego Feder, Argentina 
Amresh Shrivastava, Canada
001
  Cognitive approaches to resilience
Diego Feder, Argentina
002
  Psychosocial approaches to resilience
Roberto Sivak, Argentina
003
  Psychoneurobiological approaches to resilience
Amresh Shrivastava, Canada
004
  Reconstructive relational experience as a model 
of crisis and disaster intervention
Jose Toufic Thomé, Brazil
S-408 Symposium
13:30 – 15:00
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Room M1