World Psychiatric Association
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Predecessor | Association for the Organization of World Congresses of Psychiatry |
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Formation | 1961 |
Headquarters | WPA Secretariat |
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Coordinates | 46°12′19″N 6°12′27″E / 46.205379°N 6.207383°ECoordinates: 46°12′19″N 6°12′27″E / 46.205379°N 6.207383°E |
Fields | Psychiatry |
Secretary General | Roy Abraham Kallivayalil |
President | Helen Herrman |
President-Elect | Afzal Javed |
Main organ | World Psychiatry |
Website | wpanet |
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The World Psychiatric Association is an international umbrella organisation of psychiatric societies.
Objectives and goals[]
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[]
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 2017, Helen Herrman is president, and Afzal Javed is president-elect.[3]
Year | World Congress | President | Secretary General | ||
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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 | 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 | Mexico City, Mexico | Helen Herrman[3] | Australia | Roy Abraham Kallivayalil[3] | India |
2019 | Lisbon, Portugal | Helen Herrman[3] | Australia | Roy Abraham Kallivayalil[3] | India |
Structure[]
As of 2016, the institutional members of the World Psychiatric Association are 138 national psychiatric societies in 118 countries representing more than 200,000 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 72 scientific sections.[2]
Publications[]
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]
Activities[]
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[]
- ^ Jump up to: a b c "History of the World Psychiatric Association". World Psychiatric Association. Retrieved 26 December 2016.
- ^ Jump up to: a b c d "About the World Psychiatric Association". World Psychiatric Association. Retrieved 24 December 2016.
- ^ Jump up to: a b c d e f g h i j "The Executive Committee". World Psychiatric Association. Retrieved 27 December 2017.
- ^ Jump up to: a b "World Psychiatric Association Chronology". World Psychiatric Association. Retrieved 2012-10-11.
- ^ Vera Rich, Soviet psychiatry: pre-emptive resignation?, Nature (February 17, 1983).
- ^ Allan Wynn, The Soviet Union and the World Psychiatric Association, The Lancet (February 19, 1983).
- ^ Masha Hamilton, Soviets Win Praise From Amnesty International, Los Angeles Times (April 2, 1989).
- ^ Paul Anastasi, Soviets Conditionally Readmitted To World Psychiatric Association, New York Times (October 18, 1989).
- ^ Ruiz, Pedro (November 2011). "Greetings from Pedro Ruiz, new WPA President". World Psychiatric Association. Retrieved 2012-10-11.
- ^ "General Assembly 2014". World Psychiatric Association. Retrieved 26 December 2016.
- ^ "17th WPA World Congress of Psychiatry "Psychiatry of the 21st Century: Context, Controversies and Commitment"". World Psychiatric Association. Retrieved 26 December 2016.
- ^ Jump up to: a b c "World Psychiatric Association (WPA) By-laws" (PDF). World Psychiatric Association. 21 September 2011.
- ^ Jump up to: a b "World Psychiatric Association (WPA) Statutes" (PDF). World Psychiatric Association. 21 September 2011.
- ^ "Archive of "World Psychiatry"". PubMed Central. National Center for Biotechnology Information, U.S. National Library of Medicine. Retrieved 2009-06-18.
- ^ Jump up to: a b "Latest Publications". World Psychiatric Association. Retrieved 24 December 2016.
- ^ "WPA News: Past Issues". World Psychiatric Association. Retrieved 26 December 2016.
- ^ Jump up to: a b c d e "Journals & Volumes Produced by WPA Sections". World Psychiatric Association. Retrieved 26 December 2016.
- ^ "ANS: The Journal for Neurocognitive Research". Activitas Nervosa Superior. Retrieved 26 December 2016.
- ^ "Archives of women's mental health". NLM Catalog. National Center for Biotechnology Information, U.S. National Library of Medicine. Retrieved 26 December 2016.
- ^ "Art & Psychiatry". World Psychiatric Association. Retrieved 26 December 2016.
- ^ "Child & Adolescent Psychiatry". World Psychiatric Association. 2016.
- ^ "Early Career Psychiatrists". World Psychiatric Association. 2016.
- ^ "Newsletter". World Psychiatric Association: Section on Religion, Spirituality and Psychiatry. August 2016.
- ^ "World Healer". World Psychiatric Association - Transcultural Psychiatry Section. Retrieved 26 December 2016.
- ^ "Madrid Declaration on Ethical Standards for Psychiatric Practice". World Psychiatric Association. 21 September 2011.
- ^ "Secretary General's summary of the proceedings and conclusions of the 2002 extraordinary and ordinary general assemblies". World Psychiatric Association. 26 August 2002.
External links[]
- World Psychiatric Association
- International medical associations
- Psychiatry organizations
- Scientific supraorganizations
- Organisations based in Geneva
- Professional associations based in Switzerland
- Scientific organisations based in Switzerland
- Scientific organizations established in 1961
- 1961 establishments in Switzerland