Transcultural Challenge of Medicine: First International Conference on Transcultural Psychiatry in Central European Countries

In a rapidly changing world, the culture of psychiatry itself is also changing, from a more medically constricted perspective to a more inclusive scientific approach integrating the perspectives of the social sciences, public health, and public policy, along with medicine and its related clinical di [...]
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In a rapidly changing world, the culture of psychiatry itself is also changing, from a more medically constricted perspective to a more inclusive scientific approach integrating the perspectives of the social sciences, public health, and public policy, along with medicine and its related clinical disciplines. Europe is experiencing one of the most significant influxes of migrants and refugees in its history. Pushed by civil war and terror and pulled by the promise of a better life, hundreds of thousands of people have fled the Middle East and Africa, risking their lives along the way. More than a million migrants and refugees crossed into Europe in 2015, sparking a crisis as countries struggle to cope with the influx, and creating division in the EU over how best to deal with resettling people. In a rapidly changing world, psychiatry faces numerous challenges. In response to these rapid societal changes, psychiatry needs to be prepared to meet the challenges of migration, acculturative change and acculturative stressors. Transcultural psychiatry focuses on the study of all these phenomena. (Series: Books on Transcultural Psychiatry, Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics / Schriftenreihe zur transkulturellen Psychiatrie, Psychotherapie und Psychosomatik, Vol. 7) Subject: Psychiatry, Migration Studies, Refugee Studies, Sociology]