PSYCHIATRY ON LINE ITALIA - English Podcast Psychiatry On Line Italia

"If you are Madonna or George Clooney you are a very, very different kind of migrant...."

Speech held during the 47th Congress of SIP at Giardini Naxos (Italy)
Dinesh Bhugra CBE is a professor of mental health and diversity at the Institute of Psychiatry at King's College London. He is an honorary consultant psychiatrist at the South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust and is former president of the Royal College of Psychiatrists. He is currently president elect of the World Psychiatric Association. Bhugra became chair of the Mental Health Foundation in 2011, and was awarded his CBE in the 2012 New Year Honours for services to psychiatry following three years as the president of the Royal College of Psychiatrists This same year he became the first ever UK-based psychiatrist to be voted president elect of the World Psychiatric Association (WPA), he will serve as president beginning in 2014.

MDMA will be approved for therapeutic use in the United States in 2022. New psychotherapy scenarios are expected to open, with new settings (for example, the use of a bed with the patient lying down and eyes closed, under the influence of "medical" MDMA, observed and followed by a couple of therapists trained in this regard). The primary objective of MDMA is to promote psychotherapy itself, interrupting (in theory) the patient's fear response reaction when he is dealing with traumatic memories.
Interview by Jonas Di Gregorio

"LET THE PATIENTS SUPERVISY YOU..."
Relazione presentata durante i lavori del XXI CONGRESSO NAZIONALE DELLA SOCIETA' ITALIANA DI PSICOPATOLOGIA (SOPSI), tenutosi a Roma 22-25 febbraio 2017

Prof Charles Kellner, Mount Sinai Medicine School of New York

Panteleimon Ekkekakis, Associate Professor, Department of Kinesiology, Iowa State University and Honorary Fellow at Exeter University in the School of Sports and Health Sciences, studies the reasons behind what is presently considered the most serious public health challenge in industrialized countries, namely the problem of physical inactivity. In particular, his research examines the patterns of affective responses (such as pleasure versus displeasure) to exercise performed at different levels of intensity and the cognitive and physiological factors that influence these patterns. The rationale for this focus is based on the hedonic theory of motivation, according to which people generally tend to do what makes them feel better and tend to avoid what makes them feel worse.

REPORT PRESENTED DURING THE WORKS OF THE 12TH CONGRESS OF THE SIPB - Italian Society of Biological Psychiatry held in Naples (2 - 5 October 2019)