INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE
"TRADITIONAL MEDICINE,
INTERCULTURALITY AND MENTAL HEALTH"

From 07 to 10 June 2009
Tarapoto - San Martín - PERU

Organized:

















Plaza de Armas de Tarapoto


Cataratas de Ahuashiyacu


Medicina Tradicional Amazónica



Proposed interventions:

  • “The use of wachuma in the treatment of alcoholics and other addictions”, Lic. Agustín Guzmán, Founder and President, ONG Tawantinsuyu Community, Perú.

  • “Awá kánè as a traditional medical cures, ways to treat diseases”, Alí García, Bribri native, San José, Costa Rica.

  • “The path of sacred plants to the West: an experiment in cross-cultural dialogue on healing, personal transformation and the influence of shamanism in psychotherapy”
    - Ana Llamazares, anthropologist, Researcher, National Council for Scientific and Technological Research (CONICET) Director of the Foundation From America, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
    - Carlos Martínez Sarasola, anthropologist, member of the Inter-American Indian Spirituality Council (CISEI) Director of the Foundation From America, Buenos Aires, Argentina

  • “Traditional medical system with Sanpedro and teaching for healers from master Marco Mosquera Huatay”, Ana María Pérez, Lima, Peru.

  • “Ceremonial use of Peyote and mental healt”, Anya Loizaga Velder, Psychologist, Co Founder and Co Director of Nierika Center, Mexico, Collaborator  in the RISA Project, Mexico.

  • “Sacred plants are not drugs: a review of classification standards ls in light of traditional medicine”, Armando Loizaga Pazzi, Psychologist, Co Founder and Co Director of Nierika Center, Mexico, Collaborator  in the RISA Project, Mexico.

  • “Reflections about Ayahuasca and Health”, Dra. Beatriz Caiuby Labate, Anthropologist, UNICAMP, Sao Paolo, Brazil.

  • “Reviews of the literature pharmacological, psychiatric and psychological ayahuasquers about religions”, Dra. Beatriz Caiuby Labate, Anthropologist, UNICAMP, Sao Paolo, Brazil.

  • “The ayahuasca experience - cognitive reflections”, Pr. Benny Shanon, Psicology profesor, Hebrew University, Jerusalén, Israel.

  • “Plants of the Córdoba mountains in situations associated with drug”
    - Profesor César Rabat, Director General of the El Emilio Foundation, Córdoba, Argentina.
    - Dr. Sergio Vilar, Medical Director, El Emilio Foundation, Córdoba, Argentina.

  • “Formulation of national policies on indigenous mental health”, Carlos Coloma, Medical, Indigenous Mental Health Manager, Project VIGISUSII, National Health Foundation (FUNASA), Brasil.

  • “Ayahuasca sessions in Takiwasi. Towards a hermeneutic analysis”, Camilo Barrionuevo, psychologist, member of therapeutic team Takiwasi, Tarapoto, Peru.

  • “God spoke to me!. A theoretical approach to the integration of spiritual experience”, Camilo Barrionuevo, psychologist, member of therapeutic team Takiwasi, Tarapoto, Peru.

  • “The legal qualification of the plants traditionally used by indigenous peoples”, Carolina Monardes, Doctorate in Law, Reseachr assistant, University of Montreal, Montreal, Canada.

  • “Healing through dreams among Tapahtianis Nahuas of the Sierra Norte de Puebla”, César Vélez, Doctor in anthropology, Mexico.

  • “The prevention and cure of mental ailments with the 17 natural remedies, compared to the upheavals caused by the food and agro biotechnology”, Dr. Claude Henri Amaury, Natural Health of AMENAT, Tarata, Bolivia.

  • “Faith and Ayahuasca; reflections from a personal experience”, Padre Cristián Alejandría, diocesan priest, Takiwasi, Perú.

  • “The Mayan calendar, the main tool in Maya medicine for diagnosis and treatment of 6 diseas”
    - Cristina Chávez, Coordinator of Program Mental Health Association of the barefoot doctors, Chinique, El Quiché, Guatemala.
    - Felipe Pol Morales, General Director of Association of the barefoot doctors, Chinique, El Quiché, Guatemala.

  • “Strategies for health promotion and prevention of alcohol abuse in Bororos”, Danielle Ribeiro Spagnol, Responsible for the mental health team of the Indian Special Indigenous Sanitary District of Cuiabá - FUNASA, Mato Grosso, Brazil.

  • “The lost of soul in cases of mental health”, Delfor Wank'aymura Laymë, Member of the comunity "Wasa Pukyu" of Quebrada del T'urö, Salta, Argentina.

  • “The therapeutic potential of Ayahuasca”, Dr. Diego R. Viegas, lawyer and anthropologist, vice-president of the Mesa Verde Foundation, Rosario, Argentina.

  • “The 'holy children': an experience of learning and healing”, Duván Rivera Arcila, Manizales, Colombia.

  • “Local perspective of work with alcohol dependence in the Bororo ethnic group”, Edemilson Canale, Responsible for the mental health team of the Indian Special Indigenous Sanitary District of Cuiabá - FUNASA, Mato Grosso, Brazil.

  • “Regulation the religious use of ayahuasca in Brazil”, Edward McRae, anthropologist, Interdisciplinary Group for the Study of Psychoactive Substances GIESP, Federal University of Bahia, Brazil.

  • “Reflections on the implementation of mental health policy for indigenous peoples in the State of Sao Paulo”, Elisabeth Passero Pastore, Responsible for the technical area of Mental Health of the Indigenous Regional Coordination of Sao Paulo /FUNASA/MS, Sao Paulo, Brazil.

  • “The peyote and the huicholes: the mytic journey to Wirikuta”, Eugeni Porras, anthropologist, National Institute of Anthropology and History, Tepic, Nayarit, México.

  • “Diet three voices. A phenomenological approach to the Diet of three patients in the center”, Fabienne Bâcle & Diego Graña, psychologists, member of therapeutic team Takiwasi, Tarapoto, Peru.

  • “The contribution of traditional medicine in the treatment of a French psychiatric case”, Fabienne Bâcle, psychotherapist, members of therapeutic team Takiwasi, Tarapoto, Peru.

  • “Implementation of the actions of indigenous mental health in particular indigenous health district Mato Grosso, Brazil”, Fabiane de Oliveira Vick, Coordinator of the Indigenous Peoples Program of Mental Health Special Indigenous Sanitary District (DSEi), the National Health Foundation (FUNASA), Mato Grosso, Brazil .

  • “Scientific Research. A crucial instrument for change in mental health”, PhD. Fernando Mendive, Responsable del Laboratorio y Coordinador Cientifico, Takiwasi Center, Tarapoto, Peru.

  • “Prevalence of the additions in Tarapoto, epidemiological approach”, Dr. Fernando Salazar, Cayetano Heredia University , Lima, Perú.

  • “Bridging the gap between being and not”, Dr. Fernando Vanini, psychiatristt, Runawasi, Argentina.

  • “Kuskachay: dissolving and recreating boundaries of the body to become straight and strong in medicine Keshwa Lamas”, Françoise Barbira-Freedman, anthropologist, University of Cambridge, England.

  • “Takiwasi from the perspective of the patient”, Frank Pfitzner, psychologist, Technical University of Berlin, therapeutic team member Takiwasi, Perú.

  • “Re-thinking the ontology of beings no empirical”, Frédérique Apffel-Marglin, PhD, Profesor Emérita, Department of Anthropology, Smith College, Massachusetts, USA. Director of Program Living Routes whit the CAC Oro Verde, Lamas, Perú, titled: Fair market and Bio-Cultural Regeneration in the Upper Amazon.

  • “Physical pain and mental approaches from traditional medicine”, Germán Zuluaga, Medical, President of the Center for Intercultural Studies of Medicine (CEMI) Study Group on Traditional Systems of Health, Faculty of Medicine, University of Rosario, Colombia.

  • “Use of purges of tobaco in the course of western psychotherapy”, Ghislaine Bourgogne, psychotherapist-psychoanalyst, President of l'Association la Maison qui chante, Titular member of National College of  Peruvian Psicology, France.

  • Gonzalo Brito, psychologist, Chile.

  • “The pain of the world made language torn: contributions of Ayahuasca in the psychotherapy treatment of an alcoholic patient”, Lic. Guillermo Gil Figueira, Clinical Psychologist, Argentina.

  • “Hospitals for the indigenous population in Mexico since pre-Hispanic times to the present moment”, Dr. Ignacio Bernal Torres, Director of the Clínica del Pueblo de San Martín Mexicapan, Oaxaca. Adviser to the State Council of Traditional Indigenous Doctors Oaxaca, Oaxaca, México.

  • “The boners and ancestral andean chiropractic : alleviating physical and emotional”, Iván Reyna Mercado, Natural health, Inka Chiropractic, Lima.

  • “Experience the history of health in a rural community through the oral”, Dr. Jaime Carvajal Isla, Neurology Resident - Medical, Santiago, Chile.

  • Jaime Ibacache Burgos, Medical, Colective Health Unit, Chiloe, Chile.

  • “Purgahuasca: Funding of Culture Awajun (Peru) for the Treatment of Addiction”, Lic. Jaime Torres Romero, Clinical Psychologist, Director of the Takiwasi Center, Peru.

  • "Meeting between the Guarani and Ayahuasca: a study case"
    - Jean Langdon, anthropologist, professor of the Graduate Program in Anthropology at the University of Catarina, Florianópolis, Brasil.
    - Isabel Santana d Rose , PhD student in the graduate program in social anthropology, University of Catarina, Florianópolis, Brazil.

  • “Toward an expanded vision of the being and disease”, Dr. Jorge Andreozzi, Medical infectologists, Runawasi, Argentina

  • “Long-term effects on mental health consumers ayahuasca ritual”, Dr. José María Fábregas, psychiatrist, CITA (Center for Research and Treatment of Drug Addiction(, Spain. IDEAA (Institute of Amazonian Applied Ethnopsychology), Brazil.

  • "Psychotherapeutic assesment of the ritual use of ayahuasca in drug addiction", Dr. José María Fábregas, psychiatrist, CITA (Center for Research and Treatment of Drug Addiction(, Spain. IDEAA (Institute of Amazonian Applied Ethnopsychology), Brazil.

  • “Protocol for the use of Ayahuasca in Western psychotherapy ”, Josep María Fericgla, doctor in cultural anthropology, University of Barcelona, psychotherapist, Specialist in etnopsicology, Director and Profesor of the Societat d’Etnopsicología Aplicada i Estudis Cognitius, Barcelona.

  • “The axes of the treatment in the therapeutic protocol of the Center Takiwasi”, José Miguel Velásquez, psychologist, member of therapeutic team Takiwasi, Tarapoto, Peru.

  • “Acts against life. Trangressions and its impact on the therapeutic process”, José Miguel Velásquez, Diego Graña & Frank Pfitzner, psychologists, members of therapeutic team Takiwasi, Tarapoto, Peru.

  • “Radiograph of diseases with the guinea pig”, Juan Lligalo, Native, Yachak, Chivuelo comunity, Ecuador.

  • “A mental health model in Canada from a first nations traditional knowledge-based perspective”, Julian Robbins, First Nations Centre of the National Aboriginal Health Organization, descendant of the Mi'kmaq people, Otawa, Canada.

  • “The plant of without a name anguish”, Dr. Julio Aragón, Clinical Psychologist, Argentina.

  • “The medicine of ancestors of the Nahuatl Pipil from El Salvador”, Katia López, Institute for the Rescue of Ancient Indigenous from El Salvador (RAIS), El Salvador.

  • “Traditional medicine as a cultural heritage of health, to establish a public policy of protecting and preserving”, Lisa Priscila Bustos Jiménez, Medical audit of the St. Thomas Psychiatric Clinic in Bogota Colombia. Specialist in Public Health and Medical Audit of the University of Rosario, Bogotá, Colombia.

  • “Clinical implications of an epidemiological surveillance system in the religious use of Ayahuasca: The experience of the UDV”, Luis Fernando Tófoli, psychiatrist, Health Commission of the Unión do Vegetal (UDV), Brasil.

  • “Socio-anthropological factors related to the practice of traditional medicine ancient ethnic mental health of indigenous populations in Venezuela”, Dra. Luisa Peña Yhasyhas, Psychiatrist, Venezuela.

  • “A saúde mental e a ressignificaçao da bebida sacramental amazónica sob a perspectiva intercultural Guaraní- Tupiniquim”, Pr. Luiz Henrique Chad Pellon, Professor Mestre, Departamento de Enfermagem em Saúde Pública da Escola de Enfermagem Alfredo Pinto- Universidade Federal do Estado Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil.

  • “Trepanation of the skull and its relation to mental health in the ancient Peruvians”, Dr. Manuel Fernández Ivalbueno, President of the Research Center of Traditional Medicine (CIMT), Vice-President of the Peruvian Academy of Healt, Peru.

  • “Ayahuasca, the residents of the street and chemical dependency”, Marcelo Mercante, anthropologist, Ablusa, Sao Paulo, Brasil.

  • “Ayahuasca use in treating chemical dependency”, Marcelo Mercante, anthropologist, Brasil.

  • “Spirituality and Science: complementary as possible? Joy from a new review of the literature on sacred plants”, Dr. Marcelo Rodríguez, biochemical, Argentina.

  • “Folk medicine and psychiatry through the belief”, María Cristina Bianchetti, Research Institute of Alta Montaña, Department of Ethnography and Folklore, Catholic University of Salta, Argentina.

  • “Ayahuasca umbilical regressive experience in conflict resolution”, Marina Laura Sprovieri, psychotherapist, Anatheóresis Center of therapy and Formation, Madrid, Spain.

  • “New values, a path of health”, Marion Spielmann, Austria. Founder and Director of the School of Life, Weiz/Austria, Charitable initiated several projects, Honorary Vice-President of the VI World Congress of Traditional Medicine, Peru, CIMT member, member of "Peace through Culture", Europe

  • “Treating a young woman with autoimmune disease (case treated in psychoanalysis interface and sacred plants)”, Dra. Matilde Vittullo, medical-psychoanalyst, Argentina.

  • “Psicointegration and sacred plants, the risks of complex I in patients in psychoanalytic psychotherapy”, Miguel García García, Meical-Psychologist, Integrative Analytic Psychotherapist, Valencia, Spain.

  • “Journeys of Healing: Indigenous Revitalization of Culture and Traditional Medicine in the Pacific Northwest of the US and Canada”, PhD Mirjam Hirch, University of Cologne, Darmstadt, Alemania.

  • “Modern epidemiology in the service of traditional medicines”, Dr. Neil Andresson, Community Information and Epidemiological Technologies, Mexico.

  • “The school chacravidya of Pereira: an experience of knowledge through Yagé”, Ofelia Gallego Beltrán, Psychologist, Specialist in Education and Sexual Sexoterapy, Student Cultures and Drug Master, University of Caldas, Caldas, Colombia.

  • “Native Medicine in Ecuador”, Dr. Pablo Guaña Quimbiulco, Amauta Cayambi, Director of the Center for Cultural Research “Cicay-Museo Cayambe”, Cayambe, Ecuador.

  • Dr. Pierre-Yves Directeur du Centre d’Accueil de Toxicomanes, Sion, Suiza.

  • “Indigenous dilemmas: Matis traditional medicine and the arrival of diseases and drugs in "Branco"", Rafael Pessôa Sao Palo, Master in Science of Art, Federal UniversityFluminense, PhD in anthropology with a focus on indigenous health, Brasil

  • “Health as community elders Matis Valley Javari, Amazonas”, Rafael Pessôa, Sao Paio, Brasil.

  • “Results of the intercultural space of access to traditional indigenous medicine of Putumayo in Colombia”, Ricardo Díaz Mayorga, sociologist, “Visión Chamánica”, Colombia.

  • “Effects of teonanácatl in the brain's electrical activity”, Roberto Ortiz, University of the Cloister of Sor Juana, Massacalli Association, México.

  • “Treatment of dependences with Iboga”, Roman Paškulin, Medical, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia, PhD in “Pharmacodynamics of enteogens drugs – Influence on gene expression”, OMI Institute.

  • “Plants, spirituality and dimensions”, Lic. Sacha Domenech, Clinical Psychologist, Runawasi, Argentina.

  • “Olmec medicine in the process of detoxification and treatment of mental problems”, Santiago Ortela Sarmiento, medical of Olmeca tradition, México.

  • “Treatment of multiple drug abuse syndrome within the medical practice traditional Mexican: a psychological-clinical study of case”, Steffi Zacharias, PhD in Psychology, Dresden, Germany.


  • “Tables with etnomedicinal study in San Pedro, verification of cases of healing”, Victor Reyna, Professor of Chemistry, UNI Lima, researcher of traditional medicines of the Peruvian coast, Lima, Peru.

  • “Use of master plants in urban centers: encounters and disagreements”, Lic. Vilma Díaz, anthropologist, President of Runawasi, Argentina.

  • “The conquest of the I-am (case treated in psychoanalysis interface and sacred plants)”, Dr. Walter Moure, Clinical Psychologist, Runawasi, Argentina.

  • “Ceremonial use of tobaco: guidelines for the prevention of smoking in young Andean”, Wara Ethel Alderete, National University of Jujuy, Institute of Regional Science and Technology, Jujuy, Argentina.

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