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November 2007 - No.10
In this issue - A Word from the President
- WFSBP web site
- The World Journal of Biological Psychiatry
- WFSBP Congresses
- Other Events
- Contacting WFSBP
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A Word from the President I am delighted to inform you today that the WFSBP Guidelines for Biological Treatment of Personality Disorders have been published in the recent volume of the World Journal of Biological Psychiatry.
With this comprehensive manual which includes numerous recommendations the WFSBP aims to provide up-to-date treatment options and thus to further improve treatment for patients world-wide and to spread knowledge also in countries with limited continuing education possibilities.
I wish to thank Mary Zanarini, Chairperson, and Sabine Herpertz, Secretary of the WFSBP Task Force on Personality Disorders, and the entire taskforce for their superb work. I especially thank Hans-Jürgen Möller, chief editor of the World Journal of Biological Psychiatry for his dedication to develop WFSBP Treatment Guidelines. Thus we are planning to present you further WFSBP Treatment Guidelines in the course of the next year.
As with all WFSBP Treatment Guidelines and Consensus Papers, they are made available as free download on the official website www.wfsbp.org.
The WFSBP leadership has been working to make the World Journal more successful also from a financial point of view. Thus all National Societies have been informed in June 2007 that the WFSBP plans to introduce online only subscription. The National Societies have been asked to give their approval for this approach. We were delighted to receive positive feedback: the majority (76%) of the responses received approves online only subscription. We are happy that online subscription is introduced without affecting the structure of the membership fees. For more information on organisational aspects please see the respective section below. Sincerely yours, Siegfried Kasper, MD
WFSBP President |
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| WFSBP web site Feature Forums
Authored by expert Florence Thibaut, MD, PhD (Rouen University Hospital, Rouen, France) this month’s WFSBP Feature Forum “Treatment interventions in paraphilias.” is now live and open to receive your comment and contribution.
You are invited to take part in this conversation today and to communicate your views, expertise and experience with our community by posting your opinion and thoughts directly in the Forums zone. Our community looks forward to reading your contribution as a regular visitor to the WFSBP Feature Forums at www.wfsbp.org! |
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The World Journal of Biological Psychiatry Treatment Guidelines and Consensus Papers
The WFSBP Task Forces have the goal to develop Treatment Guidelines and Consensus Papers on specific diseases, which will be systematically published in The World Journal of Biological Psychiatry and made available on the WFSBP web site.
The following Paper is now available:
World Federation of Societies of Biological Psychiatry (WFSBP) Guidelines for Biological Treatment of Personality Disorders
Online Subscription
Online subscription will be introduced to the WFSBP members with volume 8(4) of the World Journal. Within the next days the WFSBP members will receive an e-mail from the WFSBP Global Headquarters with details on the personal login data for the official website www.wfsbp.org. With the login data every member can access the Members Only section on the website where a download is available.
Every new issue of the World Journal will be announced in the monthly newsletter Psych-e.
National Societies are kindly asked to transmit updated addresses of their members to the WFSBP Global Headquarters to ensure that every member receives the personal login data.
Printed Subscription
Every National Society will receive two (free) copies of the World Journal: one for the president and one for the library. Beyond this, National Socities may order copies for their members at own cost. |
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WFSBP Congresses 9th World Congress of Biological Psychiatry, Paris, France (June 28 – July 2, 2009)
The First Announcement is available on www.wfsbp-congress.org. |
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Other Events We are delighed to call special attention to:
14th Biennial Winter Workshop on Schizophrenia and Bipolar Disorders
2 – 7 February 2008, Montreux, Switzerland
www.winterworkshop.org 2nd WFSBP Asia-Pacific Regional Congress
10-13 September 2008, Toyama, Japan
http://wfsbp-08.umin.jp/
3rd Dual INA-WFSBP Congress: Psychiatry and the Neurosciences
16-19 October 2008, Athens, Greece
www.ina-wfsbp-dualcongress.gr 19th World Congress on Psychosomatic Medicine
26-31 August 2007, Québec City, Canada
www.icpm2007.ca |
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| Contacting WFSBP WFSBP Global Headquarters WFSBP World Federation of Societies of Biological Psychiatry
Zum Ehrenhain 34
22885 Barsbüttel
Germany
Tel: +49-40-670882 90
Fax: +49-40-670882 91
Email: info@wfsbp.org WFSBP President's Personal Office
Siegfried Kasper, MD
Professor and Chair
Department of General Psychiatry
Medical University Vienna, MUV
AKH, Währinger Gürtel 18-20
A-1090 Wien
Austria Berenike Oppermann, Personal WFSBP Assistant: wfsbp@meduniwien.ac.at |
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