World Psychiatric Association

This article has multiple issues. Please help improve it or discuss these issues on the talk page. (Learn how and when to remove these messages)

This article needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed.
Find sources: "World Psychiatric Association" – news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR (March 2020) (Learn how and when to remove this message)

|

This article may contain excessive or inappropriate references to self-published sources. Please help improve it by removing references to unreliable sources where they are used inappropriately. (March 2020) (Learn how and when to remove this message)

|

(Learn how and when to remove this message)

World Psychiatric Association

Predecessor| Association for the Organization of World Congresses of Psychiatry
Formation| 1961; 64 years ago (1961)
Headquarters| WPA Secretariat
Location|

* Psychiatric Hospital, 2, ch. du Petit-Bel-Air, Chêne-Bourg, Geneva, Switzerland

Coordinates| 46°12′19″N 6°12′27″E﻿ / ﻿46.205379°N 6.207383°E﻿ / 46.205379; 6.207383
Fields| Psychiatry

Secretary General

| Saul Levin

President

| Danuta Wasserman

President-Elect

| Thomas G. Schulze

Main organ

| World Psychiatry
Website| wpanet.org
[1][2][3]
World Psychiatric Association regional congress 2014

The World Psychiatric Association (WPA) 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,[update] 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  | Mexico City, Mexico
2020  | Virtual  | Afzal Javed[3] | UK  | Petr Morozov (until 2022)[3] | Russia
2023  | Vienna, Austria  | Danuta Wasserman[3] | Sweden  | Saul Levin[3] | USA
2024  | Mexico City, Mexico
2025  | Prague, Czech Republic

## Structure

[edit]

As of 2016,[update] 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]

1. ^ a b c "History of the World Psychiatric Association". World Psychiatric Association. Archived from the original on 20 December 2016. Retrieved 26 December 2016.
2. ^ a b c d "About the World Psychiatric Association". World Psychiatric Association. Archived from the original on 2 July 2012. Retrieved 24 December 2016.
3. ^ a b c d e f g h i j "The Executive Committee". World Psychiatric Association. Archived from the original on 21 April 2019. Retrieved 27 December 2017.
4. ^ a b "World Psychiatric Association Chronology". World Psychiatric Association. Archived from the original on 2015-05-19. Retrieved 2012-10-11.
5. ^ Vera Rich, Soviet psychiatry: pre-emptive resignation?, Nature (February 17, 1983).
6. ^ Allan Wynn, The Soviet Union and the World Psychiatric Association, The Lancet (February 19, 1983).
7. ^ Masha Hamilton, Soviets Win Praise From Amnesty International, Los Angeles Times (April 2, 1989).
8. ^ Paul Anastasi, Soviets Conditionally Readmitted To World Psychiatric Association, New York Times (October 18, 1989).
9. ^ Ruiz, Pedro (November 2011). "Greetings from Pedro Ruiz, new WPA President". World Psychiatric Association. Archived from the original on 2017-06-13. Retrieved 2012-10-11.
10. ^ "General Assembly 2014". World Psychiatric Association. Archived from the original on 21 April 2019. Retrieved 26 December 2016.
11. ^ "17th WPA World Congress of Psychiatry "Psychiatry of the 21st Century: Context, Controversies and Commitment"". World Psychiatric Association. Archived from the original on 14 November 2018. Retrieved 26 December 2016.
12. ^ a b c "World Psychiatric Association (WPA) By-laws" (PDF). World Psychiatric Association. 21 September 2011. Archived from the original (PDF) on 18 April 2016. Retrieved 26 December 2016.
13. ^ a b "World Psychiatric Association (WPA) Statutes" (PDF). World Psychiatric Association. 21 September 2011. Archived from the original (PDF) on 18 April 2016. Retrieved 26 December 2016.
14. ^ "Archive of "World Psychiatry"". PubMed Central. National Center for Biotechnology Information, U.S. National Library of Medicine. Archived from the original on January 15, 2009. Retrieved 2009-06-18.
15. ^ a b "Latest Publications". World Psychiatric Association. Archived from the original on 17 May 2019. Retrieved 24 December 2016.
16. ^ "WPA News: Past Issues". World Psychiatric Association. Archived from the original on 26 April 2019. Retrieved 26 December 2016.
17. ^ a b c d e "Journals & Volumes Produced by WPA Sections". World Psychiatric Association. Archived from the original on 23 December 2017. Retrieved 26 December 2016.
18. ^ "ANS: The Journal for Neurocognitive Research". Activitas Nervosa Superior. Archived from the original on 24 August 2019. Retrieved 26 December 2016.
19. ^ "Archives of women's mental health". NLM Catalog. National Center for Biotechnology Information, U.S. National Library of Medicine. Retrieved 26 December 2016.
20. ^ "Art & Psychiatry". World Psychiatric Association. Archived from the original on 26 December 2016. Retrieved 26 December 2016.
21. ^ "Child & Adolescent Psychiatry". World Psychiatric Association. 2016. Archived from the original on 2016-12-27. Retrieved 2016-12-26.
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.
25. ^ "Madrid Declaration on Ethical Standards for Psychiatric Practice". World Psychiatric Association. 21 September 2011. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 26 December 2016.
26. ^ "Secretary General's summary of the proceedings and conclusions of the 2002 extraordinary and ordinary general assemblies". World Psychiatric Association. 26 August 2002. Archived from the original on 27 December 2016. Retrieved 26 December 2016.

## External links

[edit]

* Official website
* WPA Section on Religion, Spirituality and Psychiatry
* WPA Transcultural Psychiatry Section

* v
* t
* e

Psychiatry

Subspecialties|

* Addiction psychiatry
* Biological psychiatry
* Child and adolescent psychiatry
* Cognitive neuropsychiatry
* Cross-cultural psychiatry
* Developmental disability
* Descriptive psychiatry
* Eating disorder
* Emergency psychiatry
* Forensic psychiatry
* Geriatric psychiatry
* Immuno-psychiatry
* Liaison psychiatry
* Military psychiatry
* Nutritional psychiatry
* Narcology
* Neuropsychiatry
* Palliative medicine
* Pain medicine
* Psychotherapy
* Sleep medicine
* Telepsychiatry

Organizations|

* American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
* American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology
* American Neuropsychiatric Association
* American Psychiatric Association
* British Neuropsychiatry Association
* Campaign Against Psychiatric Abuse
* Chinese Society of Psychiatry
* Democratic Psychiatry
* European Psychiatric Association
* Global Initiative on Psychiatry
* Hong Kong College of Psychiatrists
* Independent Psychiatric Association of Russia
* Indian Psychiatric Society
* National Institute of Mental Health
* Philadelphia Association
* Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists
* Royal College of Psychiatrists
* Taiwanese Society of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
* Working Commission to Investigate the Use of Psychiatry for Political Purposes
* World Psychiatric Association

Related topics|

* Behavioral medicine
* Clinical neuroscience
* Controversies about psychiatry
* Anti-psychiatry
* Biopsychiatry controversy
* Electroconvulsive therapy
* Insulin shock therapy
* Political abuse of psychiatry
* Psychiatric survivors movement
* Imaging genetics
* Neuroimaging
* Neurophysiology
* Pentylenetetrazol
* Philosophy of psychiatry
* Psychiatric epidemiology
* Psychiatric genetics
* Psychiatric hospital
* Psychiatrist
* Psychoanalysis
* Psycho-oncology
* Psychopharmacology
* Psychosomatic medicine
* Psychosurgery

Lists|

* Counseling topics
* Neurological conditions and disorders
* Psychiatric medications
* by condition treated
* Psychiatric survivors movement
* Psychiatrists
* Psychotherapies

* Portal
* Outline

Authority control databases

International|

* ISNI
* VIAF

National|

* United States
* France
* BnF data
* Czech Republic
* 2
* Israel
* Finland

Academics|

* CiNii

People|

* Trove

Other|

* IdRef
* Yale LUX

*[v]: View this template
*[t]: Discuss this template
*[e]: Edit this template