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First Quarter 2002 Newsletter
I love films. I recently went to see A Beautiful Mind, about a mathematical genius taken ill with paranoid schizophrenia. The film discusses the borderline between the real and the imaginary. What is knowledge? Where is the line between wisdom and madness? What is the psychiatric treatment people receive? Does it seem horrendous or helpful…
Collaborating Centers
International Center for Psychosocial Trauma, University of Missouri-Columbia, USA Syed Arshad Husain, director of the International Center for Psychosocial Trauma at the University of Missouri-Columbia, USA, a WFMH Collaborating Center, helped to organize psycho-social relief efforts for victims of the major earthquake in Western India on 26 January 2001. Together with two colleagues he visited…
1999 INTERNATIONAL YEAR OF OLDER PERSONS
NATIONAL FOCAL POINTS Mrs. N.J. Pathirana Director of Social Services No. 98 D.S. Senanayake Mawatha Colombo 8 SRI LANKA Tel: 94 1 686191/686200 Fax:94 1 686191 Mr. N’nyapule R.C. Madai Head, Services for the Elderly Department of Social Welfare P.O. Box 1949 Dar Es Salam TANZANIA Tel: (255 51) 180078 Fax: (255 51) 112054 Buthania…
Leadership
Executive committee 2021-2023 Nasser Loza President Tsuyoshi Akiyama President-Elect Ingrid Daniels Immediate Past President Andrew Mohanraj Treasurer Silvia Raggi Corporate Secretary Sunil Mittal Vice President Constituency Development Roberto Mezzina Vice President Programme Development Regional Vice Presidents 2021-2023 Johannes John-Langba Regional Vice President Africa Roy Kallivayalil Regional Vice President Asia Pacific Brigitte Khoury Regional Vice President…
~World Mental Health Day Report 1998~
Kenya The Division of Mental Health in the Ministry of Health devotes considerable attention to a countrywide mental health campaign, which includes a National Event held each year in a different part of the country to provide local education and encouragement. This year the theme was “Mental Health and Individual Rights.” The Health Minister gave…