World Psychiatric Association
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The World Psychiatric Association (WPA) 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.{{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 }} Donald Ewen Cameron became president of the World Psychiatric Association at its formal founding in 1961.
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.Vera Rich, [https://www.nature.com/articles/301559a0.pdf Soviet psychiatry: pre-emptive resignation?], Nature (February 17, 1983).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). The Soviet body was conditionally readmitted into the World Psychiatric Association in 1989, following some improvements in human rights conditions,Masha Hamilton, [https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1989-04-02-mn-1416-story.html Soviets Win Praise From Amnesty International], Los Angeles Times (April 2, 1989). 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."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).
{{As of| October 2023|post=,}} Danuta Wasserman is president, and Thomas G. Schulze is president-elect.{{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 }}
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|+World Congress locations and WPA leadership{{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 }} |
| scope="col" rowspan="2"|Year
! scope="col" rowspan="2"|World Congress ! scope="colgroup" colspan="2"|President ! scope="colgroup" colspan="2"|Secretary General |
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! 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 |
| 1961
| data-sort-value="Canada, Montreal"| Montreal, Canada | data-sort-value="Cameron, D. Ewen"|D. Ewen Cameron | Canada |
| 1966
| data-sort-value="Spain, Madrid"| Madrid, Spain | data-sort-value="López-Ibor, Juan J."|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 Rome | data-sort-value="United States"| USA |
| 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 A. Costa e Silva | Brazil | rowspan="2" data-sort-value="López-Ibor, Juan J., Jr."|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 |
| 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 J. López-Ibor, Jr. | Spain |
| 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 | 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 |
| 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="United States"| USA |
| 2014
| data-sort-value="Spain, Madrid"| Madrid, Spain{{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 }} | data-sort-value="Bhugra, Dinesh"|Dinesh Bhugra | data-sort-value="United Kingdom"| U.K. | data-sort-value="Kallivayalil, Roy Abraham"|Roy Abraham Kallivayalil | India |
| 2017
| data-sort-value="Germany, Berlin"| Berlin, Germany{{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 }} | data-sort-value="Herrman, Helen"|Helen Herrman | Australia | data-sort-value="Kallivayalil, Roy Abraham"|Roy Abraham Kallivayalil | India |
| 2020
| data-sort-value="Virtual"| Virtual | data-sort-value="Javed, Afzal"|Afzal Javed | UK | data-sort-value="Morozov, Petr"| Petr Morozov (until 2022) | Russia |
| 2023
| data-sort-value="Vienna, Austria"| Vienna, Austria | data-sort-value="Wasserman, Danuta"|Danuta Wasserman | Sweden | data-sort-value="Levin, Saul"|Saul Levin | 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.{{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 }} The societies are clustered into 18 zones and four regions: the Americas, Europe, Africa & Middle East, and Asia & Australasia.{{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 }} Representatives of the societies constitute the World Psychiatric Association General Assembly, the governing body of the organization.{{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 }} 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). There are 66 scientific sections.
Publications
The official publication of the association is World Psychiatry.{{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}} World Psychiatry and the association's official books are published by Wiley-Blackwell.{{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 }} WPA also self-publishes a quarterly newsletter on its website.{{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 }}
Several WPA scientific sections have their own official journals and newsletters:
: {{lang|la|Activitas Nervosa Superior}} (Psychiatric Electrophysiology Section){{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 |archive-date=24 August 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190824194702/http://www.activitas.org/index.php/nervosa/index |url-status=dead }}
: Archives of Women's Mental Health (Women's Mental Health Section){{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 }}
: 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)
: 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)
: {{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){{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 }}
: Psyche and Spirit (Section on Religion, Spirituality and Psychiatry) {{cite web |title=Newsletter |date=August 2016 |website=World Psychiatric Association: Section on Religion, Spirituality and Psychiatry |url=http://religionandpsychiatry.org/main/newsletter/ }}
: Psychological Consequences of Torture and Persecutions Section
: World Healer (Transcultural Psychiatry Section){{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 }}
: WPA eReview ([https://www.wpanet.org/ec-news WPA Quarterly eNewsletter])
Activities
The association has helped establish a code of professional ethics for psychiatrists.{{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 }} The association has also looked into charges regarding China's treatment of the Falun Gong.{{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 }}
References
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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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