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13th National Congress of the South African Society of Psychiatrists, 20-23 September 2004
Submitted: 12 August 2008 | Published: 01 October 2004
About the author(s)
Eugene Allers, Private practice, South AfricaChrister Allgulander, Associate Professor, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
Sean Exner Baumann, Department of Psychiatry and Mental Health, University of Cape Town
Charles L Bowden, University of Texas Health Science Center, San Antonio
P Buckley, Department of Psychiatry, University of Stellenbosch
David J Castle, Mental Health Research Institute and University of Melbourne, Australia
Beatrix J Coetzee, Clinical Psychologist; Riverview Manor, Underberg, South Africa
Franco Colin, Private Practice, Pretoria
A M Dikobe, Weskoppies Hospital, Pretoria
Charl Els, Department of Psychiatry, University of Alberta Hospital, Canada
Robin Emsley, Department of Psychiatry, University of Stellenbosch
Senathi Fisha, Clinical Psychologist in Private Practice and CEO, Banabaka Care Institute
A E Gangat, Department of Psychiatry, Nelson R Mandela School of Medicine, University of KwaZulu-Natal
T Goba, Chief Medical Director, Global Research and Medical Network
Gerhard Grundling, Private Practice
Jürgen Harms,
S M Hawkridge, Department of Psychiatry and Mental Health, University of Cape Town and Department of Psychiatry
Erick Hollander, Professor, Department of Psychiatry, Director, Seaver and Greater NY Autism Center of Excellence, Clinical Psychopharmacology, and Compulsive, Impulsive and Anxiety Disorders Program, Mount Sinai School of Medicine
M L Janet, Private
A B R Janse van Rensburg, Division of Psychiatry, Department of Neurosciences, Helen Joseph Hospital
Shabeer Ahmed Jeeva, Child and Adult Psychiatrist, Credit Valley Hospital, 2200 Eglinton Ave. W., Mississauga, ON, Canada
J A Joska, Department of Psychiatry and Mental Health, University of Cape Town
Andre Joubert, Lundbeck Institute, Copenhagen
Sean Z Kaliski, Associate Professor, Department of Psychiatry, University of Cape Town, and Forensic Psychiatry Unit, Valkenberg Hospital, Cape Town
V N Khanyile, Sterkfontein Hospital and Department of Psychiatry, University of the Witwatersrand
Fred Kigozi, Consultant Psychiatrist/Medical Director, Butabika National Referral Mental Hospital, Uganda
B Levinson,
Marilyn Lucas, Associate Professor and Head of Psychology, Faculty of Arts, Monash, South Africa
E N Madela-Mntla, National Department of Health
M Y H Moosa, Department of Psychiatry, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand
Piet Oosthuizen, Department of Psychiatry, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Stellenbosch
Ted Parran, CWRU School of Medicine, 10900 Euclid Ave, Cleveland OH, USA
A Pauw,
Willie Pienaar, Associate Professor, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Stellenbosch Principal Psychiatrist, Associated Psychiatric Hospitals, PAWC, Stikland Hospital
Felix Potocnik, Departments of Psychiatry, Clinical Pathology and Internal Medicine, University of Stellenbosch
Ramovha Rachel, Limpopo College of Nursing, Thohoyandou Campus
J. L Roos, Department of Psychiatry University of Pretoria, South Africa
Steven P Roose, Professor of Clinical Psychiatry, College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University
Martin Scholtz, Department of Psychiatry, University of Pretoria
Soraya Seedat, MRC Unit on Anxiety and Stress Disorders, Department of Psychiatry, Stellenbosch University, Tygerberg, W Cape
M Spitzer, Medical Director, Professor and Chairman (Head of Department) of the newly established Psychiatric Hospital at the University of Ulm, Germany
Dan J Stein, MRC Unit on Anxiety Disorders, University of Stellenbosch, PO Box 19063, Tygerberg 7505
Ugash Subramaney, Senior Consultant, Community Health Services, Department of Psychiatry, University of the Witwatersrand
Dave Swingler, Rhodes University, Grahamstown; Fort England Hospital, Grahamstown
Christopher Paul Szabo, Professor and Clinical Head, Division of Psychiatry, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg
Godfrey B Tangwa, Associate Professor of Philosophy, University of Yaounde 1, Yaounde, Cameroon
Michael Trimble, Consultant Physician, Department of Psychological Medicine, National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery, London
H van der Bijl, Department of Psychiatry, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Stellenbosch
L M van der Merwe,
Vasi van Deventer, Department of Psychology, University of South Africa
C W van Staden,
W J C Verbeeck, Vincent van Gogh Institute, Postbus 5, 5800 AA Venray, The Netherlands
G C Verster, PO Box 232, Somerset West, 7129
Merryll Vorster, Professor, Division of Psychiatry, Department of Neurosciences, University of the Witwatersrand
Bruce Lydiard, Medical University of South Carolina, 171 Ashley A venue #623, Charleston, SC 29425 USA
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List of abstacts and authors:
1. Integrating the art and science of psychiatry
Eugene Allers
2. Chronic pain as a predictor of outcome in an inpatient Psychiatric population
Eugene Allers and Gerhard Grundling
3. Recent advances in social phobia
Christer Allgulander
4. Clinical management of patients with anxiety disorders
Christer Allgulander
5. Do elephants suffer from Schizophrenia? (Or do the Schizophrenias represent a disorder of self consciousness?) A Southern African perspective
Sean Exner Baumann
6. Long term maintenance treatment of Bipolar Disorder: Preventing relapse
Charles L. Bowden
7. Predictors of response to treatments for Bipolar Disorder
Charles L. Bowden
8. Aids/HIV knowledge and high risk behaviour: A Geo-graphical comparison in a schizophrenia population
P Buckley, S van Vuuren, L Koen, J E Muller, C Seller, H Lategan, D J H Niehaus
9. Does Marijuana make you go mad?
David J Castle
10. Understanding and management of Treatment Resistant Schizophrenia
David J Castle
11. Workshop on research and publishing
David J Castle
12. From victim to victor: Without a self-help book
Beatrix Jacqueline Coetzee
13. The evaluation of the Gender Dysphoric patient
Franco Colin
14. Dissociation: A South African model
A M Dikobe, C K Mataboge, L M Motlana, B F Sokudela, C Kruger
15. Designated smoking rooms...and other "Secret sins" of psychiatry: Tobacco cessation approaches in the severely mentally ill
Charl Els
16. Dual diagnosis: Implications for treatment and prognosis
Charl Els
17. Body weight, glucose metabolism and the new generation antipsychotics
Robin Emsley
18. Neurological abnormalities in first episode Schizophrenia: Temporal stability and clinical and outcome correlates
Robin Emsley, H Jadri Turner, Piet P Oosthuizen, Jonathan Carr
19. Mythology of depressive illnesses among Africans
Senathi Fisha
20. Substance use and High school dropout
Alan J. Flisher, Lorraine Townsend, Perpetual Chikobvu, Carl Lombard, Gary King
21. Psychosis and Psychotic disorders
A E Gangat
22. Vulnerability of individuals in a family system to develop a psychiatric disorder
Gerhard Grundling and Eugene Allers
23. What does it Uberhaupt mean to "Integrate"?
Jürgen Harms
24. Research issues in South African child and adolescent psychiatry
S M Hawkridge
25. New religious movements and psychiatry: The Good News
V H Hitzeroth
26. The pregnant heroin addict: Integrating theory and practice in the development and provision of a service for this client group
V H Hitzeroth, L Kramer
27. Autism spectrum disorder
Erick Hollander
28. Recent advances and management in treatment resistance
Eric Hollander
29. Bipolar mixed states
M. Leigh Janet
30. Profile of acute psychiatric inpatients tested for HIV - Helen Jospeh Hospital, Johannesburg
A B R Janse van Rensburg
31. ADHD - Using the art of film-making as an education medium
Shabeer Ahmed Jeeva
32. Treatment of adult ADHD co-morbidities
Shabeer Ahmed Jeeva
33. Needs and services at ward one, Valkenberg Hospital
Dr J. A. Joska, Prof. A.J. Flisher
34. Unanswered questions in the adequate treatment of depression
Moderator: Dr Andre F Joubert
Expert: Prof. Tony Hale
35. Unanswered questions in treatment resistant depression
Moderator: Dr Andre F Joubert
Expert: Prof. Sidney Kennedy
36. Are mentally ill people dangerous?
Sen Z Kaliski
37. The child custody circus
Sean Z. Kaliski
38. The appropriatenes of certification of patients to psychiatric hospitals
V. N. Khanyile
39. HIV/Aids Psychosocial responses and ethical dilemmas
Fred Kigozi
40. Sex and Psychiatry
B Levinson
41. Violence and abuse in psychiatric in-patient institutions: A South African perspective
Marilyn Lucas, John Weinkoove, Dean Stevenson
42. Public health sector expenditure for mental health - A baseline study for South Africa
E N Madela-Mntla
43. HIV in South Africa: Depression and CD4 count
M Y H Moosa, F Y Jeenah
44. Clinical strategies in dealing with treatment resistant schizophrenia
Piet Oosthuizen, Dana Niehaus, Liezl Koen
45. Buprenorphine/Naloxone maintenance in office practice: 18 months and 170 patients after the American release
Ted Parran Jr, Chris Adelman
46. Integration of Pharmacotherapy for Opioid dependence into general psychiatric practice: Naltrexone, Methadone and Buprenorphine/ Naloxone
Ted Parran
47. Our African understanding of individulalism and communitarianism
Willie Pienaar
48. Healthy ageing and the prevention of Dementia
Felix Potocnik, Susan van Rensburg, Christianne Bouwens
49. Indigenous plants and methods used by traditional African healers for treatinf psychiatric patients in the Soutpansberg Area (Research was done in 1998)
Ramovha Muvhango Rachel
50. Symptom pattern & associated psychiatric disorders in subjects with possible & confirmed 22Q11 deletional syndrome
J.L. Roos, H.W. Pretorius, M. Karayiorgou
51. Duration of antidepressant treatment: How long is long enough? How long is too long
Steven P Roose
52. A comparison study of early non-psychotic deviant behaviour in the first ten years of life, in Afrikaner patients with Schizophrenia, Schizo-affective disorder and Bipolar disorder
Martin Scholtz, Melissa Janse van Rensburg, J. Louw Roos
53. Treatment, treatment issues, and prevention of PTSD in women: An update
Soraya Seedat
54. Fron neural networks to clinical practice
M Spitzer
55. Opening keynote presentation: The art and science of Psychiatry
M Spitzer
56. The future of Pharmacotherapy for anxiety disorders
Dan J. Stein
57. Neuropsychological deficits pre and post Electro Convulsive Therapy (ECT) thrice a week: A report of four cases
Ugash Subramaney, Yusuf Moosa
58. Prevalence of and risk factors for Tradive Dyskinesia in a Xhosa population in the Eastern Cape
Dave Singler, Betty D. Patterson, Sandi Willows
59. Eating disorders: Addictive disorders?
Christopher Paul Szabo
60. Ethical challenges and dilemmas of research in third world countries
Godfrey B. Tangwa
61. The interface between Neurology and Psychiatry with specific focus on Somatoform dissociative disorders
Michael Trimble
62. Prevalence and correlates of depression and anxiety in doctors and teachers
H Van der Bijl, P Oosthuizen
63. Ingrid Jonker: A psychological analysis
L. M. van der Merwe
64. The strange world we live in, and the nature of the human subject
Vasi van Deventer
65. Art in psychiatry: Appendix or brain stem?
C W van Staden
66. Medical students on what "Soft skills" are about before and after curriculum reform
C W van Staden, P M Joubert, A-M Bergh, G E Pickworth, W J Schurink, R R du Preez, J L Roos, C Kruger, S V Grey, B G Lindeque
67. Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) - Medical management. Methylphenidate (Ritalin) or Atomoxetine (Strattera)
Andre Venter
68. A comprehensive guide to the treatment of adults with ADHD
W J C Verbeeck
69. Treatment of Insomnia: Stasis of the Art?
G C Verster
70. Are prisoners vulnerable research participants?
Merryll Vorster
71. Psychiatric disorders in the gym
Merryl Vorster
72. Ciprales: Effects on anxiety symptoms in Major Depressive Disorder
Bruce Lydiard
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