Online meeting on Art in Psychiatry

Wednesday, April the 30th, 2025, 2.00 pm Central European Time

The Special Interest Group of the World Association of Cultural Psychiatry, in collaboration with the Groupe Hospitalier Universitaire Paris, will organize a new Online Meeting on the application of Art in Psychiatry with three excellent speakers

2.00 pm Short introduction

2.05 pm Tom Theeuwen; Curator Museum of the Mind, Haarlem and Amsterdam, the Netherlands, https://museumvandegeest.nl/english-information/

 The application of Visual Art in the history of mental health. Excerpts from the exhibition ‘Animal Therapy’ in Amsterdam.

2.25 pm Short discussion

2.30 pm  Dr Jaswant Guzder; Clinical Professor, University of British Columbia, Department of Psychiatry; Co-Director UBC Social and Psychiatry Program; Professor(ret), McGill University, Division of Child Psychiatry & Division of Social and Cultural Psychiatry

 Engagement with creative arts and  mental health : two  legacies from Jamaica and Brazil

 2.55 pm Short discussion

3.00 pm Anne-Marie Dubois;  Psychiatrist and Psychoanalyst, Scientific Director of the Musée d’Art et d’Histoire de l’Hôpital Sainte-Anne (MAHHSA).

Subject to be announced

 3.25 pm Short discussion

 Participation to the online meeting is free. Please send your name to Hans Rohlof, hrohlof@gmail.com to register. After registering, you will receive a participation link. The meeting will be recorded.

Organizers:

Itsuo Asai, Japan; Alberto Velasco, France; Hans Rohlof, the Netherlands.