25^th World Congress of Social Psychiatry Three Outstanding Plenary Sessions

DAY 1: 15 January 2026 – 12:15 – 13:00

Plenary Address – Edgar Morin – Eminent Sociologist and Philosopher (France)

Edgar Morin, who celebrated his 100^th birthday in 2021, is an eminent French sociologist and philosopher whose work on complex thought and polycrisis won him international recognition

“Qu’est-ce que l’esprit ?” – What Is Mind?”

• Chair: Prof. Rachid Bennegadi (France)
• Discussant: Prof. Vincenzo Di Nicola (Canada)

DAY 2: 16 January 2026 – 1:15 – 12:00

Plenary Address – Prof. Norman Sartorius (Switzerland)

Prof. Norman Sartorius, described as “psychiatry’s living legend,” is former Director of the WHO’s Division of Mental Health, President of the World Psychiatric Association and the European Psychiatric Association

“Caring for Carers: A Priority for Mental Health Care”

• Chair: Prof. Rama Rao Gogineni (USA)

DAY 3: 17 January 2026 – 11:00 – 11:45

Yves Pelicier Prize Ceremonial Lecture – Prof. Dinesh Bhugra, CBE (UK)

Prof. Dinesh Bhugra, known for his work on mental health and diversity, is Past President of the Royal College of Psychiatrists (UK) and the World Psychiatric Association

“To Cure Sometimes, To Comfort Always: Foolishness of the Past and Wisdom of the Future in Social Psychiatry”

• Chair: Prof. Em. Driss Moussaoui (Morocco)

WASP 25^th World Congress of Social Psychiatry Marrakech, Morocco

15-17 January 2026

“Caring for the Vulnerable:

Making Social Psychiatry Clinically Relevant”

DAY 1: 15 January 2026

8:00 – 9:00 Registration

9:00 – 9:45 Opening Ceremony

Declaration of the Opening of the WASP 25^th World Congress of Social Psychiatry

• President of WASP and Congress President – Prof. Vincenzo Di Nicola (Canada)
• President of National Organizing Committee – Prof. Driss Moussaoui (Morocco)
• World Congress Co-Chairs – Prof. Vincenzo Di Nicola (Canada) and Prof. Rakesh K. Chadda (India)

• WASP Council of Past Presidents – Prof. Roy A. Kallivayalil (Chair, India), Jorge Alberto Costa e Silva (Brazil), Shridhar Sharma (India), Driss Moussaoui (Morocco), Tom Craig (UK), Rachid Bennegadi (France)

Presentation of “The Marrakesh Manifesto” of the 25^th World Congress of Social Psychiatry

• Prof. Vincenzo Di Nicola (Canada) and Prof. Norman Sartorius (Switzerland)

9:45 – 11:15 Plenary I

WASP 60^th Anniversary (1964-2024) Special Symposium:

“Celebrating 60 Years of WASP, Looking Forward to the Future of Social Psychiatry”

• Co-Chairs: Vincenzo Di Nicola, WASP President (Canada), Roy Abraham Kallivayalil, Chair of the WASP Council of Past Presidents (India)
• Panelists:
• WASP Past Presidents: Jorge Alberto Costa e Silva (Brazil), Shridhar Sharma (India), Driss Moussaoui (Morocco), Tom Craig (UK), Roy A Kallivayalil (India), Rachid Bennegadi (France)
• WASP President-Elect, Rakesh K Chadda (India), Next President-Elect, Andrew Molodynski (UK)

11:15 – 11:30 Coffee Break

11:30 – 12:15 Plenary II

Presidential Address – Vincenzo Di Nicola (Canada)

“Caring for the Vulnerable: Making Social Psychiatry Clinically Relevant”

• Chair: Roy Abraham Kallivayalil (India)

12:15 – 13:00 Plenary III

Plenary Address – Edgar Morin – Sociologist and Philosopher (France)

“Qu’est-ce que l’esprit ?” – What Is Mind?”

• Chair: Rachid Bennegadi (France)
• Discussant: Vincenzo Di Nicola (Canada)

13:00 – 14:00 Lunch Break

14:00 – 15:30 Five parallel sessions (Oral Communications, Symposia) – 1-5 15:30 – 15:45 Coffee Break

15:45 – 17:15 Five parallel sessions (Oral Communications, Symposia) – 6-10 17:15 – 18:30 WASP Executive Council Meeting

Cultural event (Dakka Marrakchia – traditional Moroccan folklore music from Marrakesh)

DAY 2: 16 January 2026

8:00 – 9:30 Five parallel sessions (Oral Communications) – 11-15

9:30 – 11:00 Five parallel sessions (Panel, Symposia, Workshop) – 16-20 11:00 – 11:15 Coffee Break

11:15 – 12:00 Plenary IV

Plenary Address: Norman Sartorius (Switzerland) “Caring for Carers: A Priority for Mental Health Care”

• Chair: Rama Rao Gogineni (USA)

12:00 – 13:00 Plenary V

Plenary Roundtable – Publishing in Social Psychiatry

• Chair: Debasish Basu (India), Founding Editor-in-Chief, World Social Psychiatry

Rama Rao Gogineni (USA), ed., WASP Textbook on Social Psychiatry

Dinesh Bhugra (UK), Driss Moussaoui (Morocco), Tom J Craig (UK), eds., Oxford Textbook of Social Psychiatry

13:00 – 14:00 Lunch Break

14:00 – 15:30 Five parallel sessions (Symposia, Workshop) (21-25) and Poster Session 14:00 – 15:00 WASP Council of Past Presidents

• Chair: Roy Abraham Kallivayalil (India)

15:30 – 15:45 Coffee Break

15:45 – 17:15 Five parallel sessions (Symposia, Workshop/ECP session) (26-30) 17:30 – 19:00 WASP General Assembly

• Chair: Vincenzo Di Nicola, WASP President (Canada)

Evening Gala Dinner

Dignitaries Speeches

WASP Prizes (Honorary Fellows, Presidential Commendations)

Day 3: 17 January 2026

8:00 – 9:15 Five parallel sessions (Oral Communications) – 31-35 9:15 – 10:45 Five parallel sessions (Symposia, Film) – 36-40

10:45 – 11:00 Coffee Break

11:00 – 11:45 Plenary VI

Yves Pelicier Prize Ceremonial Lecture – Dinesh Bhugra, CBE (UK)

“To Cure Sometimes, To Comfort Always: Foolishness of the Past and Wisdom of the Future in Social Psychiatry”

• Chair: Driss Moussaoui (Morocco)

11:45 – 13:15 Plenary VII and VIII

Keynote Lectures – Lisa Dikomitis (UK) and Domenico Giacco (UK)

“From Ethnography to Mental Health Innovation: Reimagining Social Psychiatry”

• Chair: Andrew Molodynski (UK)

13.15-14.00 Lunch Break

14:00 – 14:45 Plenary IX

Keynote Address by a Psychiatrist-in-Training – Samra Zafar (Canada)

“Unseen and Unheard: Reclaiming Vulnerability in Clinical Psychiatry. From Margins to Medicine — A Journey Toward Intersectional Care for the Most Overlooked”

• Chair: Vincenzo Di Nicola (Canada)

14:45 – 15:30 Plenary X

President-elect Address – Rakesh K Chadda (India) “Social Psychiatry: Emerging Societal Challenges”

• Chair: Vincenzo Di Nicola (Canada)

15:30 – 15:45 Coffee Break

15:45 – 16:30 Closing Ceremony

Declaration of the Closing of the WASP 25^th World Congress of Social Psychiatry

• President of WASP and Congress President – Prof. Vincenzo Di Nicola (Canada)
• President of National Organizing Committee – Prof. Driss Moussaoui (Morocco)
• World Congress Co-Chairs – Prof. Vincenzo Di Nicola (Canada) and Prof. Rakesh K. Chadda (India)
• WASP Secretary General – Prof. Andrew Molodynski (UK)
• WASP Treasurer – Prof. Yasser Khazaal (Switzerland)
• WASP President-Elect – Prof. Rakesh K. Chadda (India)

WASP Council of Past Presidents – Prof. Roy A. Kallivayalil (Chair, India), Jorge Alberto Costa e Silva (Brazil), Shridhar Sharma (India), Driss Moussaoui (Morocco), Tom Craig (UK), Rachid Bennegadi (France)

• Prof. Norman Sartorius (Switzerland), Former Director, WHO Mental Health Division, Past President, World Psychiatric Association (WPA) and European Psychiatric Association (EPA)
• President, Moroccan Association of Social Psychiatry (MASP) – Prof. Driss Moussaoui
• President, Moroccan Association of Dynamic Psychiatry (MADP) – Dr. Hachem Tyal
• Prof. Saïd Zouhair, Dean of the Faculty of Medicine, Marrakech (Morocco)

Awarding of Best Poster Prize

Transfer of WASP Presidential Medallion:

• President-Elect of WASP – Rakesh K Chadda (India)

WASP 25^th World Congress of Social Psychiatry Marrakech, Morocco

15-17 January 2026 Parallel Sessions

15 January 2026

14:00 – 15:30

Session 1 – Symposium in Room N° 6 / 1st floor

AVATAR Therapy for Distressing Voices: Current Status and New Frontiers:

Chair: Tom Craig (UK) Speakers: Tom Craig (UK), Thomas Ward, Awoke Mihretu, Mamta Sood (India)

Session 2 – Symposium in the Conference room 400 / 2^nd floor

The Role of Users, Peer Support Helpers, and Family Caregivers in the Mental Health Recovery: From Theory to Practice

Co-Chairs: Vincenzo Di Nicola (Canada), Driss Moussaoui (Morocco) Presenters: Rama Rao Gogineni (USA), Wydad Hikmat (Morocco), Yann Hodé (France), Pascale Favre (France), Saïd Fattah (France)

Session 3 – Symposium in Room N° 5 / 1st floor

WADP Symposium. Creative Dimensions in Psychiatric and Psychotherapeutic Treatment of the Vulnerable. Co-Chairs: Maria Ammon (Germany), Roy A Kallivayalil (India) Speakers: Maria Ammon (Germany), Fabian Guénolé (France), Sieglinde Bast, Roy A Kallivayalil (India)

Session 4 – Oral Communications in Room N° 4 / 1st floor

Chair: Hachem Tyal (Morocco)

1. Mental Health and Digital Challenges in Old Age: Marianne Kastrup (Denmark)
2. Human Rights and the First 25 Years of the Geneva Prize for Human Rights in Psychiatry: François Ferrero (Switzerland)
3. Gender Aspects of Parental Caregivers of Schizophrenia Patients: Johannes Wancata (Austria)
4. Social Psychiatry in Pakistan-Current Scenario and Future Perspective: Mazhar Malik (Pakistan)

Session 5 – Symposium in Room N° 3 / 1st floor

Narrative Psychotherapy: Convergences with Indigenous Practices, Intersubjective

Psychoanalysis, and Dialogical Self-Therapy: Lewis Mehl-Madrona, Barbara Mainguy, Sophie Redlin (USA)

15:45 – 17:15

Session 6 – Symposium in the Conference room 400 / 2^nd floor

Should Social Psychiatrists Be Concerned About Social Injustice?

Chair: Hasanen Ali Al-Taiar (UK) Presenters: Hasanen Ali Al-Taiar (UK), Vincenzo Di Nicola (Canada), Norman Sartorius (Switzerland)

Session 7 – Symposium in Room N° 6 / 1st floor

Suicide in Adolescents: Understanding the Problem and Finding a Solution : Co-Chairs: Indira Sharma, Rakesh K Chadda (India) Speakers: Indira Sharma, Rakesh K Chadda, G Gopalkrishnan, Mamta Sood (India)

Session 8 – Symposium in Room N° 5 / 1st floor

Systems of Care for Addictive Disorders: Design, Delivery, and Impact: Chair: Yasser Khazaal (Switzerland) Speakers: Fatima El Omari, Yasser Khazaal, Louise Penzenstadler (Switzerland)

Session 9 – Symposium in Room N° 3 / 1st floor

Flexible Assertive Community Treatment (FACT): An Integrated Care Model Bridging Primary and Specialist Mental Health Services – Perspectives from Collaborating Partners and Relatives. Chair: Anne Landheim (Norway) Speakers: Hanne Clausen, Anne Landheim, Randi Martinsen, Berit Arnesveen Bronken, Hanne Clausen (Norway)

Session 10 – Symposium in Room N° 4 / 1st floor

Preventing Coercion in Mental Health Care: Strategies from Different Settings and Perspectives. Jorun Rugkåsa, John Olav Roaldset (Norway), Paul Doedens (The Netherlands)

Parallel Sessions

16 January 2026

8:00 – 9:30

Session 11 – Oral Communications – Social and Community Psychiatry in Room N° 6 / 1st floor

Chair: Mohamed Agoub (Morocco)

1. Reframing Culture in Youth Mental Health: Introducing a Neurocultural Framework Through Participatory Arts and Emotional Scaffolding: Angé Weinrabe (Australia)
2. Integrating Social and Community Psychiatry into General Psychiatry Residency Training: Lessons from The Philippines: Joffrey Sebastian Quiring (Philippines)
3. Teaching Mental Health Promotion to Medical Interns Rotating in Community Medicine in The Philippines: Joffrey Sebastian Quiring (Philippines)
4. Integrating Faith Healing in Psychiatry Treatment: Poonam Montadka (India)
5. An Experiential Introduction to Community Life Competence Process (CLCP) for community-led mental health: Kasthuri Divya (India)
6. Multiple Layers of Vulnerability in Severe Bipolar Disorder: Caring for a Complex Clinical Trajectory in a Low-Resource Setting: Sarah Tabit (Morocco)

Session 12 – Oral Communications – Perinatal Psychiatry and Gender Issues in Room N° 5 / 1st floor

Chair: Wydad Hikmat (Morocco)

1. Gestational Depression Negative Impacts on Quality of Life: Humberto Correa (Brazil)
2. The Relationship between the Mode of Delivery, Trauma, and Postpartum Depression: Humberto Correa (Brazil)
3. Psychometric Characteristics of EPDS, Beck and Hamilton Scales in Antenatal Depression Assessment: Humberto Correa (Brazil)
4. Disability, Femininity and Activism: Negotiating Gendered Vulnerability in Pakistan: Taskeen Mansoor (Pakistan)
5. Men, Madness and Masculinity: A Transcultural Review of Idioms of Male Psychological Distress Across Cultures: Ashandi Triyoga Prawira (Indonesia)
6. Psychiatrists and Gender Dysphoria in a Muslim country: A national Study in Morocco: Soraya Boughdadi (Morocco)

Session 13 – Oral Communications: Caregiving in Room N° 4 / 1st floor

Chair: Saïd Fattah (France)

1. Raising Children and Adolescents Between Ideology and Science: Leonida Zalokar (Slovenia)
2. Unequal Loads: Gendered Experiences of Caring for the Severely Mentally Ill: Sonam Saxena (India)
3. Caring for the Unseen: Relational Unavailability and the Origins of Mental Suffering: Doris D’Hooghe (Belgium)
4. How the Hospital Catering Can Be a Determinant of Psychiatric Patient Safety: Aicha Loutfi (Morocco)
5. The Contribution of Future Anxiety and Psychological Vulnerability in Predicting Psychosomatic Symptoms among Jordanian Youth Authors: Ahmad Ibrahim Mustafa Al- Zaghloul, Mais Imad Al-Din Al-Nasa’h (Jordan)
6. The Invisible Patient and the Ethical Imperative: DIALOG+ as the catalyst for reclaiming

 patient autonomy in psychiatric care: Syjo Davis (India)

Session 14 – Oral Communications: in the Conference Room 400 / 2^nd floor

Chair: Hachem Tyal (Morocco)

1. Cultural Adaptation of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy in the Arab World: Bridging Psychotherapy and Social Contexts: Ahmad N. AlHadi (Saudi Arabia)
2. Integrating Faith Healing in Psychiatry Treatment: Poonam Montadka (India)
3. Artificial Intelligence and Virtual Reality in OCD: Mariana Pinto Costa (UK)
4. Verbal Fluency Task as marker of Emotional Regulation and Social Functioning Recovery in Major Depressive Disorder: Sharaz Ahmed, Rohit Verma, Koushik Sinha Deb, Rizwana Quraishi, Puneet Khanna, Ahmad Najjad Husain (India)
5. Integrated Framwork for Moroccan Psycghiatry : Mohamed Oussama Bel Madani, Nadia Attouche, Adil Khoubila ( Morocco) 

Session 15 – Oral Communications: French Track in Room N° 3 / 1st floor

Chair : Fatima El Omari (Maroc)

1. Cyberdépendance, dépression et troubles du sommeil chez les étudiants en sixième année de médecine à L’UCAD : étude transversale descriptive à propos de 122 cas : Abou Sy, Yasmine Chayat (Sénégal)
2. Les addictions : une maladie sociale? : Gilbert Ferry (France)
3. La santé mentale entre surcharge, stigmatisation et silence chez les professionnels de santé au Maroc : étude transversal : Matrane Asmaa (Maroc)

9:30 – 11:00

Session 16 – Symposium in Room N° 5 / 1st floor

Rural Mental Health Care in India: An Opportunity for Early Intervention Services: Co-Chairs and Presenters: Rakesh K Chadda, Roy Abraham Kallivayalil, Deepak Kumar, KK Mishra (India)

Session 17 – Panel in Room N° 47 in the old building / Ground Floor Salle N° 47 dans l’ancien bâtiment / Rez-de-chaussée

TABLE RONDE: Familles, usagers, pair-aidants et équipes de soins en psychiatrie: témoignage vécus et partages d’expérience : Coprésidé par : Hibrawi Hatoun, Aicha Ait Belarbi (Maroc) Intervenants : Hachem Tyal, Wydad Hikmat, Zainab Ennaciri, Saadia Karroumi, Salma Raoui (Maroc)

Session 18 – Symposium in Room N° 3 / 1st floor

Applying Social Psychiatry in Clinical Practice: Pragmatics and Opportunities at Play: Siddharth Sarkar, Koushik Sinha Deb, Rohit Verma, Swati Kedia Gupta (India)

Session 19 – Workshop in Room N° 6 / 1st floor

Reducing Coercion in Mental Health Care: Evidence and Innovation. Chairs: Jorun Rugkåsa (Norway), Andrew Molodynski (UK) Presenters: Domenico Giacco (UK), Imogen Wells (UK), Louise Penzenstadler (Switzerland), Nathan Hodson (UK)

Session 20 – Symposium in the Conference Room / 2^nd floor

Education in Psychiatry – Social, Legal, and Lived Perspectives

Chair: Norman Sartorius (Switzerland) Speakers: Samra Zafar (Canada), Mariana Pinto da Costa, Hasanen Al-Taiar (UK)

14:00 – 15:30

Session 21 – Symposium in the Conference Room / 2^nd floor

Physician Well-being: A Global Imperative for Sustainable Psychiatry: Chair: Andrew Molodynski (UK) Speakers: Neda Mehrpooya, Leah Henen, Thomas Rourke, Sadiya Caunhye (UK)

Session 22 – Symposium in Room N° 5 / 1st floor

Obesity in Children: Psychosocial Determinants: Co-Chairs: Indira Sharma, G Gopalakrishnan (India) Presenters: Indira Sharma, Kshirod K Mishra, Shruti Srivastava, Rakesh K Chadda (India)

Session 23 – Symposium in Room N° 4 / 1st floor

From Stigma to Strength: Social Psychiatry at the Frontlines of Vulnerability in Pakistan:

Mazhar Malik, Sawera Mansoor, Usama Bin Zubair (Pakistan)

Session 24 – Workshop in Room N° 3 / 1st floor

Less Stress, More Competence: Self-care, Communicative Competence, Quality of Life and Professional Medical Action: Fabian Guénolé, Peter Vogelsänger, Marcus Herrman (France)

Session 25 – Symposium in Room N° 6 / 1st floor

Living with Dementia: Beyond the Diagnosis – Families, Caregivers, and Society: Sumi Sarasappan, Azad Cadinouche (India/UK)

15:45 – 17:15

Session 26 – Symposium in Room N° 47 in the old building / Ground Floor Salle N° 47 dans l’ancien bâtiment / Rez-de-chaussée

La psychoéducation des familles et des usagers en psychiatrie : quel gap entre la théorie et la pratique ? : Coprésidé par : Yasser Khazaal (Suisse), Mohamed Agoub (Maroc) Intervenants : Wydad Hikmat, Hachem Tyal (Maroc), Yann Hodé, Saïd Fattah (France)

Session 27 – Symposium in the Conference Room 400 / 2^nd floor

WPA Section on Ecology Psychiatry and Mental Health & ESSP “Climate Change in A Changing World”

Chair: Roy Kallivayalil (India), Giovanni Martinotti (Italy) Speakers: Dinesh Bhugra (UK), Paolo Cianconi (Italy), Dalia Martinaitiene (Lithuania), Luigi Janiri (Italy), Ruta Karaliuniene (Germany)

Session 28 – Symposium in Room N° 4 / 1st floor

Caring Beyond Clinics: Addressing Depression in Vulnerable Communities in India: Chair: Pallab Maulik. Speakers: Mercian Daniel, Sudha Kallakuri, Pallab Maulik, Sandhya K. Yatirajula (India)

Session 29 – Workshop in Room N° 3 / 1st floor

From Slum to Classroom: Co-Developing Mental-Health Training and Teaching: Tanjir Rashid Soron, Chaman Afrooz Chowdhury (Bangladesh)

Session 30 – Symposium in Room N° 6 / 1st floor

Early Career Psychiatrists (ECP)

Chair: Andrew Molodynski (UK) Invitees: WASP ECP Section, ECPs, Leaders in Social Psychiatry

Parallel Sessions

17 January 2026

8:00 – 9:30

Session 31 – Symposium in Room N° 3 / 1st floor

Global Perspectives on Coercion in Mental Health Care: Policy, Practice and Emerging Evidence: Chairs: Andrew Molodynski, Domenico Giacco (UK) Speakers: Shiro Suda (Japan), Jorun Rugkåsa (Norway), Emanuele Valenti, Andrew Molodynski, Domenico Giacco (UK)

Session 32 – Oral Communications: Severe Mental illness in Room N° 5 / 1st floor

Chair: Fatima El Omari (Morocco)

1. Lost in the Wards: A Retrospective Study of Long-Term Psychiatric Hospitalization in a Tertiary Care Institute: Shikha Khairwal (India)
2. Home Treatment versus Treatment as Usual in the Management of the Crisis in Severe Mental Disorders: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis: Antimo Natale (Switzerland)

3. Behind closed doors: A case of shared psychosis in a socially isolated mother-son dyad from India: Samantha Labett Langstieh (India)
4. From participation to partnership: How persons with lived experience of mental illness experience being part of a research advisory panel in India: Kasthuri Divya (India)
5. Mental Health Rehabilitation in Morocco: A Cross-Cultural Exploration: Sophia El Ouazzani (Morocco)

Session 33 – Oral Communications: French Track Session in Room N° 6 / 1st floor

Chair : Wydad Hikmat (Maroc)

1. Les addictions : une maladie sociale ? : Gilbert Ferry (France)
2. Exil, vulnérabilités et dispositifs cliniques : penser le soin, de la déliaison à la liaison : Hindi Ha)ouf-Lacôte (France)
3. La santé mentale entre surcharge, stigmatisation et silence chez les professionnels de santé au Maroc : étude transversal: Matrane Asmaa (Maroc)
4. Cyberdépendance, dépression et troubles du sommeil chez les étudiants en sixième année de médecine à L’UCAD : étude transversale descriptive à propos de 122 cas : Abou Sy (Sénégal)
5. Évaluation de la charge et de la qualité de vie des aidants familiaux des personnes atteintes de démence : Latifa El Kaoui (Maroc)

Session 34 – Oral Communications in Room N° 4 / 1st floor

Chair: Mohamed Agoub (Morocco)

1. Housing and Continuity of Mental Health Care After Forensic Psychiatric Discharge: A Scoping Review: Rose Yakubov (Canada)
2. A Social Psychiatry Perspective of Giving and Taking: Radhakanth Chunduri (India)
3. Training the Trainers: Developing a Social and Community Psychiatry Fellowship for LMIC Contexts: Joffrey Quiring (Philippines)
4. Towards a New Era of Psychoeducation: How Mizagi 2.0 Serves Bipolar Patients: Jouhayna Soudani (Morocco)
5. Forensic Psychiatry in Rwanda: Challenges and Achievements: Isabella D’Orta (Switzerland)

Session 35 – Oral Communications in the Conference Room 400 / 2^nd floor

Chair: Saïd Fattah (Morocco)

1. Climate Change in a Changing World: Luigi Janiri (Italy)
2. Policy Responses to Adolescent Substance Use in LMICs: Insights from India’s Experience: Biswadip Chatterjee (India)

3. Poverty of Information or Money—or Something Else? Barriers to Biomedical Help-

Seeking for Serious Mental Disorders in a Dhaka Slum-Findings of TRANSFORM: Tanjir Rashid Soron (Bangladesh)

4. Culture, Recovery, and Vulnerability in Forensic Mental Health: Making Social Psychiatry Clinically Relevant in Secure Settings: Hasanen Al-Taiar (UK)
5. Football for mental health: Crazy for football World Cup: San Rullo (Italy)
6. Task Shifting in Mental Health care Early Intervention Strategy in the Arctic Region: Renato Antunes dos Santos (Canada)

9:30 – 11:00

Session 36 – Symposium in Room N° 3 / 1st floor

Towards a Psychiatry of Meaning through Faith: The Spiritual Determinants of Health and Mental Health

Chair: Roy Abraham Kallivayalil (India) Presenters: Vincenzo Di Nicola (Canada), Roy Abraham Kallivayalil (India), Victor Pereira-Sanchez (USA)

Session 37 – Film: ANAHATA, Return of the Forgotten Frequencies: in the Conference Room 400 / 2^nd floor

Angé Weinrabe, Neeru Khera, Swaran Preet Singh (Australia)

TRANSFORM – Negotiating Faith & Psychiatry in Urban Slum Ecologies: Neeru Khera (Australia)

Hold My Hand: An Arts-Based Approach to Enhancing Early Mental and Physical Health Detection in Schools (ISOBAR Project): Neeru Khera, Greeshma Mohan, Swaran Singh (Australia)

Session 38 – Symposium in Room N° 4 / 1st floor

Contemporary Issues in Transcultural Psychiatry: Chair: Lewis Mehl-Madrona (USA) Speakers:

Lewis Mehl-Madrona, Patrick McFarlane, Barbara Mainguy (USA)

Session 39 – Symposium in Room N° 5 / 1st floor

Rethinking Behavioral Addictions in a Digitally Transformed World: Chair: Luigi Jianniri (Italy),

Fatima Elomari (Morocco) Discussant: Massimo Clerici (Italy); Speakers: Giovanni Martinotti (Italy), Fatima Elomari (Morocco), Jesús Castro-Calvo (Spain), Yasser Khazaal (Switzerland)

Session 40 – Symposium in Room N° 6 / 1st floor

Recovery at the Intersection of Culture, Biology, and Justice: A Global Social Psychiatry Perspective from Forensic Mental Health: Deniz Al Tawalbeh (Jordan), Hasanen Ali Al-Taiar (UK)

Poster Sessions

Poster Session I (16 January 2026 9.30-11.00 AM)

1. Antidepressant Exposure During the First Trimester of Pregnancy and the Risk of Foetal Mortality: A Meta-analysis of Harms in Population-based Studies: Fabian Guénolé (France)
2. Visual Hallucinations and Wandering in a Patient with Vascular Parkinsonism: A Case Report: Sumi Sarasappan (India/UK)
3. Nitrazepam-induced Visual Hallucinations and Cerebellar atrophy in an 81-year-old man: a case report: Sumi Sarasappan (India/UK)
4. Vulnerability to Trauma – Complex PTSD and Emotion Dysregulation as Consequences: Bojana Pejuskovic (Serbia)
5. Gender Disparities in the Gift of Life: Exploring Altruism and Sociocultural Factors in Living Kidney Donation: Sarthak Kukreja, Ojasvi Meena, Koushik Sinha Deb, Swati Kedia Gupta, Rohit Verma (India)
6. Aspects épidémiologiques, cliniques et thérapeutiques de la schizophrénie au CHNU de Fann (Dakar, Sénégal) : Étude descriptive transversale du 1er janvier 2023 au 31 juin 2024: Abou Sy (Sénégal)
7. Environmental Context and Cortisol Stress Responses in Weather-sensitive Patients with Coronary Artery Disease: Dalia Martinaitiene (Lithuania)
8. Organizationally Mediated Vulnerability Among Healthcare Workers: Making Social Psychiatry Clinically Relevant in a University Hospital Setting: Sarah Tabit (Morocco)
9. Beyond Clinical Care: Online Peer-Support Communities as Emerging Social Infrastructures in Mental Health: Sarah Tabit (Morocco)
10. Psychiatric Comorbidities in Parkinson’s Disease: A Moroccan Perspective on Anxiety and Depression: Khaoula Elcadi 1, Oussama Cherkaoui Rhazouani , Nissrine Louhab , Najib Kissani and Mohamed Chraa (Morocco)