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GENERAL INFORMATION

2nd International Conference
on Psychiatric Museums
and History of Psychiatry

October 29- 31, 2009, Prague, Czech Republic

Important dates

On-line registration
from 1st September 2008

Payment of early registration before
1st September 2009

Abstract submission (deadline)
15th October 2009

To register please make choice of the website as below:

http://icmhp.eu/cs/onlineforms/registration-of-the-congress

Congress Venue

The Congress will take place at the Psychiatric Hospital Bohnice
Address: Psychiatric Hospital Bohnice, Ústavní 91, 180 02 Prague 8, Czech Republic

Congress Theme

We are naturally delighted to have chance to take up with the interesting and resultful conference on the psychiatric museums „Locating the soul" having been held in Christophsbad, Göppingen on the 9th - 10th November 2007. It is our pleasure to organize the Conference on the occasion of celebration of the 100th anniversary of the establishment of the Psychiatric Hospital Bohnice in Prague. The psychiatry has rather an ample history which in many respects reflects the conditions and circumstances of the times. Nowadays it is difficult even for the specialists to really understand the situation of their predecessors. And even worse can the contemporary public understand the situation of the today mentally ill. The worst it is for decision making people who determinate the source limits and the legal rules.

Evidently not only the bizarre, curious subjects of the museum collections and their surprising usage are concerned, not only even the sorrow over the fates of the mentally ill, the point is, that we all feel the active interest to help the public to understand the human mind, its pathology and possibilities to cure the mentally ill. Let us focus our attention not only to the last times but also to the present and future. It seems logical to extend the conference themes with the ways and forms how to inform the public. Along with the interest on the archive treasures there is necessary also to elaborate on the interest in the functioning of the psyche in normal and pathological situation, to extend the interest in various forms of the mental disorders and the process of intermediation such information including the measurement of the success or non-succes of such an endendeavour.

All the participants will have opportunity to learn on archiving and restoring documents and objects to learn on the form of their effectual and aesthetical way of presentation, on how to take effect on people by means of the lectures and the printed and alectronic media. The organizers believe that the participants of the 2nd Conference on „Psychiatric Museums and History of Psychiatry" to be held in Prague will receive plenty of impression and knowledge.

Dr. Ivan David
Deputy Director of the Psychiatric Hospital Bohnice,
Local Organiser of the ICMHP

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1 Euro = 25.7 CZK

ELECTRICITY
The Czech Republic uses a 220V/50Hz system, sockets have the European standard and plugs are three-prong grounded.

CLIMATE AND CLOTHING
Prague is a city with a continental climate. At the end of October the weather is usually cold, rainy, temperature usually ranging from 5 to 10^oC. It is advisable to have a light coat, a sweater, etc. and an umbrella.