The Society for Study of Psychiatry and Culture  (SSPC) has a new logo. It will be used on our website and for communication. You will also see it gracing our future newsletters.

Joe Yamamoto, M.D., Ph.D., a long standing member of SSPC died May 24 at age 85. Dr. Yamamoto taught psychiatry at the University of Oklahoma, University of Southern California, and University of California, Los Angeles—giving hundreds of academic presentations and...

by Ronald Wintrob, M.D. Chair, WPA-Transcultural Psychiatry Section I am writing this report while still experiencing the warm glow of the Umbrian sun and the numerous buoyant contacts with many colleagues and friends who participated in the 2nd World Congress of...

In 2010: International Conference on Transcultural Psychiatry: Cultural Diversity, Social Change and Mental Health in China; Shanghai, China; April 18 – 20 International Conference on Transcultural Psychiatry: Migration, Next Generations and the Future of Psychiatry;...

The Society for the Study of Psychiatry and Culture announces its 19th annual call for papers for the Spiegel Fellowship, an annual award presented to a resident or fellow who has an interest in and commitment to cultural psychiatry. Residents or Fellows who are...

The Society for the Study of Psychiatry and Culture announces its 9th annual call for papers for the Charles Hughes Fellowship in Cultural Psychiatry, an annual award presented to a graduate student who has an interest in and commitment to cultural psychiatry and...