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The '''World Psychiatric Association''' is an international umbrella organisation for [[psychiatrist]]s that sets ethical, scientific and treatment standards in the practice of [[psychiatry]].
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[[File:World Psychiatric Association regional congress 2014A.jpg|thumb|World Psychiatric Association regional congress 2014]]
The '''World Psychiatric Association''' is an international umbrella organisation of psychiatric societies.


== Objectives and goals ==
==External links==
Originally created to produce world psychiatric congresses, it has evolved to hold regional meetings, to promote professional education and to set ethical, scientific and treatment standards for [[psychiatry]].
* [http://www.wpanet.org/ World Psychiatric Association homepage]


== History ==
[[Jean Delay]] was the first president of the Association for the Organization of World Congresses of Psychiatry when it was started in 1950.<ref name=history>{{cite web |title=History of the World Psychiatric Association |website=World Psychiatric Association |url=http://www.wpanet.org/detail.php?section_id=5&content_id=44 |access-date=26 December 2016 |archive-date=20 December 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161220071012/http://www.wpanet.org/detail.php?section_id=5&content_id=44 |url-status=dead }}</ref> [[Donald Ewen Cameron]] became president of the World Psychiatric Association at its formal founding in 1961.<ref name=history/><ref name=chronology/>


In February 1983, the Soviet All-Union Society of Neurologists and Psychiatrists resigned from the World Psychiatric Association. This resignation occurred as a preemptive action amid a movement to expel the Soviet body from the global organization due to [[political abuse of psychiatry in the Soviet Union]].<ref>Vera Rich, [https://www.nature.com/articles/301559a0.pdf Soviet psychiatry: pre-emptive resignation?], ''Nature'' (February 17, 1983).</ref><ref>Allan Wynn, [https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(83)91514-3/abstract The Soviet Union and the World Psychiatric Association], ''The Lancet'' (February 19, 1983).</ref> The Soviet body was conditionally readmitted into the World Psychiatric Association in 1989, following some improvements in human rights conditions,<ref>Masha Hamilton, [http://articles.latimes.com/1989-04-02/news/mn-1416_1_amnesty-international Soviets Win Praise From Amnesty International], ''Los Angeles Times'' (April 2, 1989).</ref> and an intensive debate among the association's delegates, in which the acting secretary of the Soviet delegation issued a statement conceding that "previous political conditions in the U.S.S.R. created an environment in which psychiatric abuse occurred, including for nonmedical reasons."<ref>Paul Anastasi, [https://www.nytimes.com/1989/10/18/world/soviets-conditionally-readmitted-to-world-psychiatric-association.html Soviets Conditionally Readmitted To World Psychiatric Association], ''New York Times'' (October 18, 1989).</ref>
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{{As of| October 2023|post=,}} [[Danuta Wasserman]] is president, and Thomas G. Schulze is president-elect.<ref name=executive>{{cite web |title=The Executive Committee |website=World Psychiatric Association |url=http://www.wpanet.org/detail.php?section_id=5&content_id=46 |access-date=27 December 2017 |archive-date=21 April 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190421051930/http://wpanet.org/detail.php?section_id=5&content_id=46 |url-status=dead }}</ref>

{| class="wikitable sortable"
|+World Congress locations and WPA leadership<ref name=chronology>{{cite web |url=http://www.wpanet.org/detail.php?section_id=5&content_id=7 |title=World Psychiatric Association Chronology |website=World Psychiatric Association |access-date=2012-10-11 |archive-date=2015-05-19 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150519061706/http://www.wpanet.org/detail.php?section_id=5&content_id=7 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
|-
! scope="col" rowspan="2"|Year
! scope="col" rowspan="2"|World Congress
! scope="colgroup" colspan="2"|President
! scope="colgroup" colspan="2"|Secretary General
|-
! scope="col"|Name
! scope="col"|Country
! scope="col"|Name
! scope="col"|Country
|-
| 1950
| data-sort-value="France, Paris"| Paris, France
| rowspan="2" data-sort-value="Delay, Jean"|[[Jean Delay]]
| rowspan="2"| France
| rowspan="3" data-sort-value="Ey, Henry"|Henry Ey
| rowspan="3"| France
|-
| 1957
| data-sort-value="Switzerland, Zurich"| Zurich, Switzerland
<!--Jean Delay-->
<!--France-->
<!--Henry Ey-->
<!--France-->
|-
| 1961
| data-sort-value="Canada, Montreal"| Montreal, Canada
| data-sort-value="Cameron, D. Ewen"|[[Donald Ewen Cameron|D. Ewen Cameron]]
| Canada
<!--Henry Ey-->
<!--France-->
|-
| 1966
| data-sort-value="Spain, Madrid"| Madrid, Spain
| data-sort-value="López-Ibor, Juan J."|[[Juan José López-Ibor|Juan J. López-Ibor]]
| Spain
| rowspan="2" data-sort-value="Leigh, Denis"|Denis Leigh
| rowspan="2" data-sort-value="United Kingdom"| U.K.
|-
| 1972
| data-sort-value="Mexico, Mexico City"| Mexico City, Mexico
| data-sort-value="Rome, Howard"|[[Howard P. Rome|Howard Rome]]
| data-sort-value="United States"| USA
<!--Denis Leigh-->
<!--U.K.-->
|-
| 1977
| data-sort-value="United States, Hawaii"| Hawaii, USA
| data-sort-value="Pichot, Pierre"|[[Pierre Pichot]]
| France
| data-sort-value="Berner, Peter"|Peter Berner
| Austria
|-
| 1983
| data-sort-value="Austria, Vienna"| Vienna, Austria
| data-sort-value="Stefanis, Costas"|[[Costas Stefanis]]
| Greece
| data-sort-value="Schulsinger, Fini"|Fini Schulsinger
| Denmark
|-
| 1989
| data-sort-value="Greece, Athens"| Athens, Greece
| data-sort-value="Costa e Silva, Jorge A."|[[Jorge Alberto Costa e Silva|Jorge A. Costa e Silva]]
| Brazil
| rowspan="2" data-sort-value="López-Ibor, Juan J., Jr."|[[Juan José López-Ibor Aliño|Juan J. López-Ibor, Jr.]]
| rowspan="2"| Spain
|-
| 1993
| data-sort-value="Brazil, Rio de Janeiro"| Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
| data-sort-value="Lieh-Mak, Felice"|[[Felice Lieh-Mak]]
| Hong Kong
<!--Juan J. López-Ibor, Jr.-->
<!--Spain-->
|-
| 1996
| data-sort-value="Spain, Madrid"| Madrid, Spain
| data-sort-value="Sartorius, Norman"|[[Norman Sartorius]]
| Switzerland
| rowspan="2" data-sort-value="Mezzich, Juan"|[[Juan Mezzich]]
| rowspan="2" data-sort-value="United States"| USA
|-
| 1999
| data-sort-value="Germany, Hamburg"| Hamburg, Germany
| data-sort-value="López-Ibor, Juan J."|[[Juan José López-Ibor Aliño|Juan J. López-Ibor, Jr.]]
| Spain
<!--Juan Mezzich-->
<!--USA-->
|-
| 2002
| data-sort-value="Japan, Yokohama"| Yokohama, Japan
| data-sort-value="Okasha, Ahmed"|[[Ahmed Okasha]]
| Egypt
| rowspan="2" data-sort-value="Cox, John"|[[John Cox (psychiatrist)|John Cox]]
| rowspan="2" data-sort-value="United Kingdom"| U.K.
|-
| 2005
| data-sort-value="Egypt, Cairo"| Cairo, Egypt
| data-sort-value="Mezzich, Juan"|[[Juan Mezzich]]
| data-sort-value="United States"| USA
<!--John Cox-->
<!--U.K.-->
|-
| 2008
| data-sort-value="Czech Republic, Prague"| Prague, Czech Republic
| data-sort-value="Maj, Mario"|[[Mario Maj]]
| Italy
| rowspan="2" data-sort-value="Kuey, Levent"|Levent Kuey
| rowspan="2"| Turkey
|-
| 2011
| data-sort-value="Argentina, Buenos Aires"| Buenos Aires, Argentina
| data-sort-value="Ruiz, Pedro"|Pedro Ruiz<ref>{{cite web|last=Ruiz|first=Pedro|url=http://www.wpanet.org/detail.php?section_id=7&content_id=1128|title=Greetings from Pedro Ruiz, new WPA President|website=World Psychiatric Association|date=November 2011|access-date=2012-10-11|archive-date=2017-06-13|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170613233845/http://wpanet.org/detail.php?section_id=7&content_id=1128|url-status=dead}}</ref>
| data-sort-value="United States"| USA
<!--Levent Kuey-->
<!--Turkey-->
|-
| 2014
| data-sort-value="Spain, Madrid"| Madrid, Spain<ref>{{cite web |title=General Assembly 2014 |website=World Psychiatric Association |url=http://www.wpanet.org/subIndex.php?section_id=5&category_id=190 |access-date=26 December 2016 |archive-date=21 April 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190421050544/http://wpanet.org/subIndex.php?section_id=5&category_id=190 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
| data-sort-value="Bhugra, Dinesh"|[[Dinesh Bhugra]]<ref name=executive/>
| data-sort-value="United Kingdom"| U.K.
| data-sort-value="Kallivayalil, Roy Abraham"|Roy Abraham Kallivayalil<ref name=executive/>
| India
|-
| 2017
| data-sort-value="Germany, Berlin"| Berlin, Germany<ref>{{cite web |title=17th WPA World Congress of Psychiatry "Psychiatry of the 21st Century: Context, Controversies and Commitment" |website=World Psychiatric Association |url=http://www.wpanet.org/detail.php?section_id=3&content_id=1670 |access-date=26 December 2016 |archive-date=14 November 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181114204400/http://www.wpanet.org/detail.php?section_id=3&content_id=1670 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
| data-sort-value="Herrman, Helen"|[[Helen Herrman]]<ref name=executive/>
| Australia
| data-sort-value="Kallivayalil, Roy Abraham"|Roy Abraham Kallivayalil<ref name=executive/>
| India
|-
| 2018
| data-sort-value="Virtual"| Virtual
| data-sort-value="Javed, Afzal"|[[Afzal Javed]]<ref name=executive/>
| UK
| data-sort-value="Morozov, Petr"| Petr Morozov (until 2022)<ref name=executive/>
| Russia
|-
| 2023
| data-sort-value="Vienna, Austria"| Vienna, Austria
| data-sort-value="Wasserman, Danuta"|[[Danuta Wasserman]]<ref name=executive/>
| Sweden
| data-sort-value="Levin, Saul"|Saul Levin<ref name=executive/>
| USA
|}

== Structure ==
{{As of|2016|post=,}} the institutional members of the World Psychiatric Association are 145 national psychiatric societies in 121 countries representing more than 250,000 psychiatrists worldwide.<ref name=about>{{cite web |title=About the World Psychiatric Association |website=World Psychiatric Association |url=http://www.wpanet.org/detail.php?section_id=5&content_id=4 |access-date=24 December 2016 |archive-date=2 July 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120702170154/http://www.wpanet.org/detail.php?section_id=5&content_id=4 |url-status=dead }}</ref> The societies are clustered into 18 zones and four regions: the Americas, Europe, Africa & Middle East, and Asia & Australasia.<ref name=bylaws2011>{{cite web |title=World Psychiatric Association (WPA) By-laws |date=21 September 2011 |website=World Psychiatric Association |url=http://wpanet.org/uploads/About_WPA/Statutes_and_Bylaws/WPA%20By-Laws%202011%20-%20Amended.pdf |access-date=26 December 2016 |archive-date=18 April 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160418041851/http://wpanet.org/uploads/About_WPA/Statutes_and_Bylaws/WPA%20By-Laws%202011%20-%20Amended.pdf |url-status=dead }}</ref> Representatives of the societies constitute the World Psychiatric Association General Assembly, the governing body of the organization.<ref name=bylaws2011/><ref name=Statutes2011>{{cite web |title=World Psychiatric Association (WPA) Statutes |date=21 September 2011 |website=World Psychiatric Association |url=http://wpanet.org/uploads/About_WPA/Statutes_and_Bylaws/WPA%20Statutes%202011.pdf |access-date=26 December 2016 |archive-date=18 April 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160418115127/http://wpanet.org/uploads/About_WPA/Statutes_and_Bylaws/WPA%20Statutes%202011.pdf |url-status=dead }}</ref> The association also has individual members and there are provisions for affiliation of other associations (e.g., those dealing with a particular topic in psychiatry).<ref name=bylaws2011/><ref name=Statutes2011/> There are 66 scientific sections.<ref name=about/>

== Publications ==
The official publication of the association is ''[[World Psychiatry (journal)|World Psychiatry]].''<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/tocrender.fcgi?journal=297&action=archive |title=Archive of "World Psychiatry" |website=PubMed Central |publisher=National Center for Biotechnology Information, U.S. National Library of Medicine |access-date=2009-06-18}}</ref> ''World Psychiatry'' and the association's official books are published by [[Wiley-Blackwell]].<ref name=publications>{{cite web |title=Latest Publications |website=World Psychiatric Association |url=http://www.wpanet.org/detail.php?section_id=10&content_id=658 |access-date=24 December 2016 |archive-date=17 May 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190517165802/http://www.wpanet.org/detail.php?section_id=10&content_id=658 |url-status=dead }}</ref> WPA also self-publishes a quarterly newsletter on its website.<ref>{{cite web |title=WPA News: Past Issues |website=World Psychiatric Association |url=http://www.wpanet.org/detail.php?section_id=7&content_id=434 |access-date=26 December 2016 |archive-date=26 April 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190426181912/http://www.wpanet.org/detail.php?section_id=7&content_id=434 |url-status=dead }}</ref>

Several WPA scientific sections have their own official journals and newsletters:
; Journals<ref name=JournalsVolumes>{{cite web |title=Journals & Volumes Produced by WPA Sections |website=World Psychiatric Association |url=http://www.wpanet.org/detail.php?section_id=10&content_id=423 |access-date=26 December 2016 |archive-date=23 December 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171223013200/http://www.wpanet.org/detail.php?section_id=10&content_id=423 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
: ''{{lang|la|Activitas Nervosa Superior}}'' (Psychiatric Electrophysiology Section)<ref>{{cite web |title=ANS: The Journal for Neurocognitive Research |website=Activitas Nervosa Superior |url=http://www.activitas.org/index.php/nervosa/index |access-date=26 December 2016 }}</ref>
: ''Archives of Women's Mental Health'' (Women's Mental Health Section)<ref name=publications/><ref>{{cite web |title=Archives of women's mental health |website=NLM Catalog |publisher= National Center for Biotechnology Information, U.S. National Library of Medicine |url=https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/nlmcatalog/9815663 |access-date=26 December 2016 }}</ref>
: ''[[History of Psychiatry (journal)|History of Psychiatry]]'' (History of Psychiatry Section)
: ''{{lang|it|Idee in Psichiatria}}'' (Ecology, Psychiatry and Mental Health Section)
: ''International Journal of Mental Health'' (Psychiatric Rehabilitation Section)
: ''[[Journal of Affective Disorders]]'' (Affective Disorders Section)
: ''Journal of Intellectual Disability Research'' (Psychiatry of Intellectual Disability Section)
: ''[[The Journal of Mental Health Policy and Economics|Journal of Mental Health Policy and Economics]]'' (Mental Health Economics Section)
: ''[[Personality and Mental Health]]'' (Personality Disorders Section)
: ''Psychiatry in General Practice'' (Rural Mental Health Section)
: ''[[Psychopathology (journal)|Psychopathology]]'' (Classification, Diagnostic Assessment and Nomenclature Section; Clinical Psychopathology Section)
: ''{{lang|es|Revista de Psicotrauma}}'' (Disaster Psychiatry Section)
: ''{{lang|fr|Revue Francophone du Stress et du Trauma}}'' (Disaster Psychiatry Section)
: ''[[Transcultural Psychiatry]]'' (Transcultural Psychiatry Section)
; Newsletters
: Art & Psychiatry Section (Section of the Psychopathology of Expression)<ref name=JournalsVolumes/><ref>{{cite web |title=Art & Psychiatry |website=World Psychiatric Association |url=http://www.wpanet.org/detail.php?section_id=11&category_id=92&content_id=444 |access-date=26 December 2016 |archive-date=26 December 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161226215551/http://www.wpanet.org/detail.php?section_id=11&category_id=92&content_id=444 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
: Child and Adolescent Psychiatry<ref>{{cite web |date=2016 |title=Child & Adolescent Psychiatry |website=World Psychiatric Association |url=http://www.wpanet.org/detail.php?section_id=11&category_id=95&content_id=450 |access-date=2016-12-26 |archive-date=2016-12-27 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161227060813/http://www.wpanet.org/detail.php?section_id=11&category_id=95&content_id=450 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
: Early Career Psychiatrists<ref>{{cite web |title=Early Career Psychiatrists |date=2016 |website=World Psychiatric Association |url=http://www.wpanet.org/detail.php?section_id=11&category_id=199&content_id=1703 |access-date=2016-12-26 |archive-date=2016-12-27 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161227060618/http://www.wpanet.org/detail.php?section_id=11&category_id=199&content_id=1703 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
: ''Psyche and Spirit'' (Section on Religion, Spirituality and Psychiatry) <ref>{{cite web |title=Newsletter |date=August 2016 |website=World Psychiatric Association: Section on Religion, Spirituality and Psychiatry |url=http://religionandpsychiatry.org/main/newsletter/ }}</ref>
: Psychological Consequences of Torture and Persecutions Section<ref name=JournalsVolumes/>
: Psychotherapy Section<ref name=JournalsVolumes/>
: ''World Healer'' (Transcultural Psychiatry Section)<ref name=JournalsVolumes/><ref>{{cite web |title=World Healer |website=World Psychiatric Association - Transcultural Psychiatry Section |url=http://www.wpa-tps.org/publications/world-healer/ |access-date=26 December 2016 }}</ref>
: ''WPA eReview'' ([https://www.wpanet.org/ec-news WPA Quarterly eNewsletter])

== Activities ==
The association has helped establish a [[code]] of [[Psychiatry#Ethics|professional ethics for psychiatrists]].<ref name=about/><ref>{{cite web |title=Madrid Declaration on Ethical Standards for Psychiatric Practice |date=21 September 2011 |website=World Psychiatric Association |url=http://wpanet.org/detail.php?section_id=5&content_id=48 |access-date=26 December 2016 |archive-date=4 March 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304140238/http://wpanet.org/detail.php?section_id=5&content_id=48 |url-status=dead }}</ref> The association has also looked into charges regarding [[History of Falun Gong|China's treatment of the Falun Gong]].<ref>{{cite web |title=Secretary General's summary of the proceedings and conclusions of the 2002 extraordinary and ordinary general assemblies |date=26 August 2002 |website=World Psychiatric Association |url=http://www.wpanet.org/detail.php?section_id=7&category_id=159&content_id=205 |access-date=26 December 2016 |archive-date=27 December 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161227060459/http://www.wpanet.org/detail.php?section_id=7&category_id=159&content_id=205 |url-status=dead }}</ref>

== References ==
{{Reflist|30em}}

== External links ==
* {{Official website|http://www.wpanet.org}}
* [http://religionandpsychiatry.org/ WPA Section on Religion, Spirituality and Psychiatry]
* [http://www.wpa-tps.org/ WPA Transcultural Psychiatry Section]

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[[Category:World Psychiatric Association| ]]
[[Category:International medical associations]]
[[Category:Psychiatric associations]]
[[Category:Scientific supraorganizations]]
[[Category:Organisations based in Geneva]]
[[Category:Professional associations based in Switzerland]]
[[Category:Scientific organisations based in Switzerland]]
[[Category:Scientific organizations established in 1961]]
[[Category:1961 establishments in Switzerland]]

Latest revision as of 17:06, 31 December 2023

World Psychiatric Association
PredecessorAssociation for the Organization of World Congresses of Psychiatry
Formation1961; 63 years ago (1961)
HeadquartersWPA Secretariat
Location
  • Psychiatric Hospital, 2, ch. du Petit-Bel-Air, Chêne-Bourg, Geneva, Switzerland
Coordinates46°12′19″N 6°12′27″E / 46.205379°N 6.207383°E / 46.205379; 6.207383
FieldsPsychiatry
Secretary General
Saul Levin
President
Danuta Wasserman
President-Elect
Thomas G. Schulze
Main organ
World Psychiatry
Websitewpanet.org
[1][2][3]
World Psychiatric Association regional congress 2014

The World Psychiatric Association is an international umbrella organisation of psychiatric societies.

Objectives and goals[edit]

Originally created to produce world psychiatric congresses, it has evolved to hold regional meetings, to promote professional education and to set ethical, scientific and treatment standards for psychiatry.

History[edit]

Jean Delay was the first president of the Association for the Organization of World Congresses of Psychiatry when it was started in 1950.[1] Donald Ewen Cameron became president of the World Psychiatric Association at its formal founding in 1961.[1][4]

In February 1983, the Soviet All-Union Society of Neurologists and Psychiatrists resigned from the World Psychiatric Association. This resignation occurred as a preemptive action amid a movement to expel the Soviet body from the global organization due to political abuse of psychiatry in the Soviet Union.[5][6] The Soviet body was conditionally readmitted into the World Psychiatric Association in 1989, following some improvements in human rights conditions,[7] and an intensive debate among the association's delegates, in which the acting secretary of the Soviet delegation issued a statement conceding that "previous political conditions in the U.S.S.R. created an environment in which psychiatric abuse occurred, including for nonmedical reasons."[8]

As of October 2023, Danuta Wasserman is president, and Thomas G. Schulze is president-elect.[3]

World Congress locations and WPA leadership[4]
Year World Congress President Secretary General
Name Country Name Country
1950 Paris, France Jean Delay France Henry Ey France
1957 Zurich, Switzerland
1961 Montreal, Canada D. Ewen Cameron Canada
1966 Madrid, Spain Juan J. López-Ibor Spain Denis Leigh U.K.
1972 Mexico City, Mexico Howard Rome USA
1977 Hawaii, USA Pierre Pichot France Peter Berner Austria
1983 Vienna, Austria Costas Stefanis Greece Fini Schulsinger Denmark
1989 Athens, Greece Jorge A. Costa e Silva Brazil Juan J. López-Ibor, Jr. Spain
1993 Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Felice Lieh-Mak Hong Kong
1996 Madrid, Spain Norman Sartorius Switzerland Juan Mezzich USA
1999 Hamburg, Germany Juan J. López-Ibor, Jr. Spain
2002 Yokohama, Japan Ahmed Okasha Egypt John Cox U.K.
2005 Cairo, Egypt Juan Mezzich USA
2008 Prague, Czech Republic Mario Maj Italy Levent Kuey Turkey
2011 Buenos Aires, Argentina Pedro Ruiz[9] USA
2014 Madrid, Spain[10] Dinesh Bhugra[3] U.K. Roy Abraham Kallivayalil[3] India
2017 Berlin, Germany[11] Helen Herrman[3] Australia Roy Abraham Kallivayalil[3] India
2018 Virtual Afzal Javed[3] UK Petr Morozov (until 2022)[3] Russia
2023 Vienna, Austria Danuta Wasserman[3] Sweden Saul Levin[3] USA

Structure[edit]

As of 2016, the institutional members of the World Psychiatric Association are 145 national psychiatric societies in 121 countries representing more than 250,000 psychiatrists worldwide.[2] The societies are clustered into 18 zones and four regions: the Americas, Europe, Africa & Middle East, and Asia & Australasia.[12] Representatives of the societies constitute the World Psychiatric Association General Assembly, the governing body of the organization.[12][13] The association also has individual members and there are provisions for affiliation of other associations (e.g., those dealing with a particular topic in psychiatry).[12][13] There are 66 scientific sections.[2]

Publications[edit]

The official publication of the association is World Psychiatry.[14] World Psychiatry and the association's official books are published by Wiley-Blackwell.[15] WPA also self-publishes a quarterly newsletter on its website.[16]

Several WPA scientific sections have their own official journals and newsletters:

Journals[17]
Activitas Nervosa Superior (Psychiatric Electrophysiology Section)[18]
Archives of Women's Mental Health (Women's Mental Health Section)[15][19]
History of Psychiatry (History of Psychiatry Section)
Idee in Psichiatria (Ecology, Psychiatry and Mental Health Section)
International Journal of Mental Health (Psychiatric Rehabilitation Section)
Journal of Affective Disorders (Affective Disorders Section)
Journal of Intellectual Disability Research (Psychiatry of Intellectual Disability Section)
Journal of Mental Health Policy and Economics (Mental Health Economics Section)
Personality and Mental Health (Personality Disorders Section)
Psychiatry in General Practice (Rural Mental Health Section)
Psychopathology (Classification, Diagnostic Assessment and Nomenclature Section; Clinical Psychopathology Section)
Revista de Psicotrauma (Disaster Psychiatry Section)
Revue Francophone du Stress et du Trauma (Disaster Psychiatry Section)
Transcultural Psychiatry (Transcultural Psychiatry Section)
Newsletters
Art & Psychiatry Section (Section of the Psychopathology of Expression)[17][20]
Child and Adolescent Psychiatry[21]
Early Career Psychiatrists[22]
Psyche and Spirit (Section on Religion, Spirituality and Psychiatry) [23]
Psychological Consequences of Torture and Persecutions Section[17]
Psychotherapy Section[17]
World Healer (Transcultural Psychiatry Section)[17][24]
WPA eReview (WPA Quarterly eNewsletter)

Activities[edit]

The association has helped establish a code of professional ethics for psychiatrists.[2][25] The association has also looked into charges regarding China's treatment of the Falun Gong.[26]

References[edit]

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  18. ^ "ANS: The Journal for Neurocognitive Research". Activitas Nervosa Superior. Retrieved 26 December 2016.
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  22. ^ "Early Career Psychiatrists". World Psychiatric Association. 2016. Archived from the original on 2016-12-27. Retrieved 2016-12-26.
  23. ^ "Newsletter". World Psychiatric Association: Section on Religion, Spirituality and Psychiatry. August 2016.
  24. ^ "World Healer". World Psychiatric Association - Transcultural Psychiatry Section. Retrieved 26 December 2016.
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External links[edit]

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