Dear SSPC Colleague, I hope you are planning to attend our 2015 conference. The theme this year, global mental health...
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Executive Director’s Note
We're busy here, actively preparing for the 2015 annual meeting which is less than five months away. Based on those...
Letter from the President
The 2014 annual meeting is only a memory. However, from my personal experience, discussions with those who attended,...
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Hotels for Meeting
For the 2012 meeting in New York SSPC will not have a headquarters hotel since we are meeting at the Orensanz Center. We have, however, managed to secure small blocks of rooms at discounted rates at four hotels in the City. Each hotel is different, as are the prices....
John P. Spiegel Memorial Fellowship
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...
Charles Hughes Fellowship in Cultural Psychiatry
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...
SSPC Symposia at the 15th World Congress of Psychiatry
On September 21, 2011, at the meeting of the World Psychiatric Association in Buenos Aires, Argentina, the Society for the Study of Psychiatry and Culture (SSPC) sponsored a symposium on “Current Research in Transcultural Psychiatry in the United States”. The...
Membership
SSPC depends on the minimal dues we charge to help keep the organization going. Annual meeting registration does not cover our office expenses, but without a secretary to process the paper work we could not have an organization. Please pay your membership if you have...
SSPC Annual Meeting
Society for the Study of Psychiatry and Culture & McGill University’s Division of Social and Transcultural Psychiatry Title: Rethinking Cultural Competence from International Perspectives Dates: 29 April to 1 May 2010 Venue: Montreal, Canada The meeting will be...
Membership
SSPC depends on the minimal dues we charge to help keep the organization going. Annual meeting registration does not cover our office expenses, but without a secretary to process the paper work we could not have an organization. Please pay your membersihip if you have...
Streamlining Communications
We want to keep in touch with you and want you to keep in touch with us. In order to do this more effectively, and make office operations function more efficiently, we have made the following changes to our email communications: The SSPCadmin mail box no longer...
Search for a Logo
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.
Remembering Joe Yamamoto
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...