New
York World Congress, abstract: Integrated Psychiatry
For many years we have been witnessing a battle between
Western Medicine and Traditional Medicine. But would it be
possible to work together instead of fighting?
This working together is called Integrated Medicine and has
been promoted by late Prof Dr Anton Jayasuriya for more then
40 years. It seems that he was way ahead on his time. The last
years there seems to be an increasing interest in Integrated
Medicine by the Western Medicine practitioners. Recently 27
medical academic centres in North America joined in a consortium
for the promotion of Integrated Medicine. That sounds great,
but to change from conventional Western Medicine to Integrated
Medicine is not easy! In this presentation we will look at
the experiences of a Mental Health Clinic in Holland trying
to establish Integrated Psychiatry.
Bio-data Rogier Hoenders:
Born in 1972 in Groningen, the Netherlands. Father worked
as a general practitioner and now practices acupuncture and
homeopathy. Mother raised four children, worked as a nurse,
studied naturopathy, reflexology, diet /food and completed
art-school. They were of great influence and awakened his passion
for medicine.
Works as a psychiatrist with young people suffering from psychosis
/ schizophrenia in GGz Winschoten (a psychiatric hospital in
the Netherlands). He is initiator and one of the organisers
of the world congress “Integrated Psychiatry; the Best
of Both Worlds” in Holland (www.integralepsychiatrie.nl).
He also works as a researcher in “de Middenweg” (that
is Dutch for “The Middle Way”). This is the name
of this research group. This group does research on the use
of complementary and alternative medicine (or Traditional Medicine)
by psychiatric patients and the effectiveness and safety of
these medicines.
Recently he initiated the project “Centre of Integrated
Psychiatry” in Winschoten, Holland.
He is on the advisory board of Lama Gangchen International
Foundation, USA and travelled with Lama Gangchen to many countries
and world congresses on Integrated Medicine.
Other interests: running, singer in a band (www.festivaloffriends.nl),
travelling, Tibetan Medicine and Tibet.
Rogier Hoenders
hjr.hoenders@wanadoo.nl
GGz Winschoten
Mr. D.U. Stikkerlaan 1
Postbus 286
9670 AG Winschoten
the Netherlands
hjr.hoenders@ggzgroningen.nl
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