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Wen-Shing Tseng, M.D., is a Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Hawaii, School of Medicine since 1972.He was trained for psychiatry at the Massachusetts Mental Health Center of Harvard Medical School in Boston, and became a Research Fellow in culture and mental health at the East-West Center from 1970 to 1971.He was recruited as Faculty Member of the University of Hawaii School of Medicine, where he became a Professor in 1976, received academic tenure since 1978, and served as Training Director for the psychiatric residency training programme between 1975 and 1982.He held the position of Guest Professor of the Institute of Mental Health, Peking University, Beijing, China, since 1987.
As a consultant to the World Health Organization and for teaching and research projects, he has traveled extensively to many countries in Asia and the Pacific, including China, Japan, Singapore, Malaysia, Fiji, and Micronesia.He served as Chairman of the Transcultural Psychiatry Section of the World Psychiatric Association for two terms, from 1983 to 1993.He is the Honorable Advisor of this section now.In that capacity, he developed a wide network of colleagues around the world in the field of cultural psychiatry.Relating to the subject of culture and mental health, he has coordinated numerous international conferences in Honolulu, Beijing/Nanjing, Tokyo and Budapest.
Throughout his career, he has conducted numerous research projects, mainly relating to: the cultural aspects of child development, family relations, assessment of psychopathology, epidemic mental disorders, culture-related specific psychiatric syndromes, folk healing, and psychotherapy.The studies resulted in the publication of more than 80 articles in scientific journals and/or book chapters.Among all the research projects that he conducted, there are several projects that particularly stand out internationally.One is the survey of the victims of koro (penis-shrinking anxiety disorder) epidemic occurred in South China, regarded by international colleagues as one of the most comprehensive investigation of culture-related specific syndromes.Working with colleagues both in Japan and China, he planned and carried out a three-year comparative follow-up study of mental health adjustment of Japanese war orphans and their Chinese families after their return to Japan and those remained in China.The obtained information resulted as a book published in Japanese: "Migration and Adjustment."In collaboration with Nanjing Child Mental Health Center, he has systematically carried out a 18-year longitudinal follow-up study of child development and their personality profile with relation to the "Single-child family planning policy" that is taking place in China.
He has been very productive in academic publication.He has edited/co-edited or authored nearly 20 English books, mostly relating to his special interest of cultural psychiatry, and nearly 30 Chinese books and/or monographs, mainly relating to psychotherapy and mental health.One of his one-person authored, 500-pages book of: "Handbook of Cultural Psychiatry" published in 2001, is regarded by the international colleagues as the landmark book of the field of cultural psychiatry, and has received the Creative Scholarship Award from the Society for the Study of Psychiatry and Culture (SSPC) in 2002.The book is translated into Italian and published in Rome, Italy.
Recently, he is nominated by international colleagues to serve as the founding president of the World Association of Cultural Psychiatry, and hold its First World Congress of Cultural Psychiatry in September 2006, in Beijing, China.Because of his research, publications, and experience, he has gained a reputation as an expert in cultural psychiatry, at both the national and international levels.
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