24 Symposium Internacional sobre Actualizaciones y Controversias en Psiquiatría

The Concept of Crisis: history and epistemology
German E. Berrios (Cambridge University, United Kingdom)

DEBATE 1
Is psychiatry currently undergoing a crisis?

Yes, the psychiatric model is on the edge
Richard Bentall (Liverpool University, United Kingdom)

No, psychiatry is in good health
Simon Wessely (King's College of London, United Kingdom)


TABLE 1:
The crisis of psychiatric diagnostics and the role of phenomenological psychopathology
Thomas Fuchs (Universität Heidelberg, Germany)

The crisis of confidence in the DSM paradigm and the future of psychiatric diagnosis
Mario Maj (Università di Napoli, Italy)

The RDoC model. Diagnoses based on experimental paradigms and brain disfunctions
Peter McGuffin (King's College of London, United Kingdom)

The contribution of genetics to psychiatric nosology
Nick Craddock (Cardiff University, United Kingdom)



Is a better antidepressant the answer?: the future of antidepressant pharmacotherapy beyond the monoamines
Jerrold F. Rosenbaum (Harvard University, USA)

DEBATE 2
Controversies on antipsychotic treatment of psychosis

Long term antipsychotic treatments improve life functional prognosis
Wolfgang Fleischhacker (Universität Innsbruck, Austria)

Long term antipsychotic treatments can worsen life functional prognosis
Lex Wunderink (Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, The Netherlands)

The controversy of first episodes treatment
Benedicto Crespo-Facorro (Universidad de Cantabria, Spain)


TABLE 2
Can Psychiatry develop primary preventive interventions?
Pim Cuijpers (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands)

New approaches in psychotherapy. Is anything more to merge?
Richard Bentall (Liverpool University, United Kingdom)

New hopes on physical treatments in psychiatry?
Damiaan Denys (Universiteit van Amsterdam, The Netherlands)

The impact of new technologies in near future psychiatry
David C Mohr (Northwestern University, USA)