WPAOfficial Quarterly NewsNEWS Bulletin of WPA OCTOBER 2017 WWW.WPANET.ORG Message from the Secretary General Message from the President Dear Colleagues and Friends, Dear Friends and Colleagues, Happy to come back to As I step down after the 17th World Congress in you again! The biggest Berlin next month this is my farewell message to you all. Three years have passed and most of it has WPA event of the trien- Dinesh Bhugra nium, the World Congress been very productive and enjoyable. Indeed, it has been a pleasure and an honour which hopefully of Psychiatry, October The work on setting up Diploma in Psychologi- Roy Abraham Kallivayalil has led to major changes in the organisation and 8-12, 2017, is now on our cal Medicine in collaboration with University of for the profession. door steps!. The overall Melbourne aimed at psychiatrists continues apace theme is “Psychiatry of the 21st Century: Con- and we hope to launch it later this year. We are Following the successful launch of Bill of Rights text, Controversies and Commitment”. The open- also working on the Diploma for non-psychiatrists. for Individuals with mental illness and a Bill of ing ceremony is at 5.30 pm on October 8th. Sir Si- Rights for children and young people a Bill of mon Wessely’s lecture and the official presentation of We are continuing to look for examples of good Rights for people with Intellectual Disability has the Jean Delay Prize to Jules Angst will take place clinical practice around the world so that we can been developed. Please get your Association/Or- learn from each other. Please keep them coming. then and the Bavarian Doctors Orchestra will provide ganisation to support these Bills of Rights. These Please check the website regularly and get involved. musical entertainment. All congress participants are are available on WPA website. cordially invited to attend the Opening Ceremony and subsequent networking reception. During the A survey of discrimination in law in Common- I would like to take this opportunity to thank you five days of the Congress, there will be 900 sessions, wealth countries showed that there was a signifi- all for your support, assistance and good wishes. a scientific programme, offering a comprehensive cant number of countries which do not have a Thanks are also due to chairs of all Presidential overview of current developments in Psychiatry and mental health policy. This was launched on the Task Forces for delivering their reports and rec- mental health. The WPA EC, Council, and Board 3rd World Mind Matters Day on 5th September ommendations with limited costs to the organisa- Meetings will be held on October 8th. The Extraor- 2017. Details of the international discrimination tion. It is your support and work behind the scenes which has made this triennium so enjoyable. The dinary General Assembly will start at the Pullman survey were published in a special issue of Interna- staff at the Head Office have been unfailingly help- Hotel at 8.45 am on October 10th. Voting for the EC tional Review of Psychiatry volume 28(4). ful particularly our Interim CEO. Thanks to the and Board positions will be held during the Ordinary EC, the Council and Board and other colleagues General Assembly to be held from at 10.45 am. For A WPA Position Statement on the Roles and Re- for their hard work and support. Please join me in the first time, we are introducing a WPA owned, user sponsibilities of a Psychiatrist in the 21st century has been approved and is available on the WPA congratulating Prof. Mario Maj for his stellar con- friendly software for the elections. Please visit our website. A Position Statement on Wellbeing of tribution to making World Psychiatry number 1 newly designed website www.wpanet.org and kindly Psychiatrists and a Statement on Good Psychi- journal in the world. send us your valuable comments. Our Facebook page atric Practice are almost ready for launch. I am is https://www.facebook.com/wpanet/. delighted to announce that over 30 Position state- I very much hope that our paths will cross again and I hope that progress in the field of psychiatry and Let me thank WPA President Dinesh Bhugra, Pres- ments have been produced in the last Triennium. mental health and well-being shall continue apace. ident-Elect Helen Herrman, members of the EC, None of this would have been possible without the Board, Council and especially Francesca and Pa- support of so many colleagues who worked tire- Best wishes, mela at our WPA Secretariat for their help, support lessly and supportively over the past three years. and co-operation. WPA-Lancet commission on Psychiatry report is Dinesh Bhugra, CBE President Roy Abraham Kallivayalil complete. Copies of the report will be available in Secretary General the World Congress in Berlin in October 2017. World Psychiatric Association World Psychiatric Association WPA NEWS OCTOBER 2017 General matters of WPA (including Regional, International and World Congress announcements) WPA Congress Vilnius, May 2017: Lithuania Health Min- ister Aurelijus Veryga, WPA President Dinesh Bhugra, and President-Elect Helen Herrman on the dais. From the President-Elect With the World Con- of the strong capacity of the WPA to promote strong representation from psychiatrists. gress of Psychiatry in mental health and improve equitable access Initiatives related to people facing circum- Berlin this month, we and quality of mental health care. stances of adversity, vulnerability and disad- close a fruitful trienni- vantage are especially relevant. Helen Herrman um for WPA and antici- In developing this Action Plan, we have As governments withdraw services in the face pate with optimism the asked two key questions: of budgetary problems and loss of political 1. Collectively, what is the potential of WPA next. I will report at the Congress on my work consensus, in a world with mass displacement with colleagues over the past three years and to contribute to tackling key challenges in of people, it becomes even more important for present the proposed WPA Action Plan for the psychiatry and mental health? WPA to move forward together with partners. next period. The Action Plan for 2017-2020 2. How can we best direct our skills and energies The world has never needed us more. I look sets out a strategy for expanding the contribu- without distracting from our core business? forward to meeting in Berlin, working and cel- tion of psychiatry to improved mental health ebrating together, and talking in more detail for people across the globe. It is based on a We have identified opportunities for the about the work ahead. series of strategic discussions within the WPA WPA with its Member Societies and part- and with potential partners and builds on the ners to engage in international development Helen Herrman work that has preceded it. It makes the most initiatives that currently do not benefit from WPA President-Elect HAVE YOU RECENTLY VISITED THE WPA WEBSITE? ➜ WWW.WPANET.ORG 2 WPA NEWS October 2017 sub-specialties. Over the 2014-17 trienniums, sections’ proposals will be accepted for the From the Secretary for there has been a noticeable increase in the WPA Berlin congress. Sections are also busy Scientific Sections number of WPA co-sponsored meetings, joint in having their elections and involving new intersectional activities and other related in- leadership for their programmes. I am pleased to report tersectional accomplishments. Sections’ par- about a very successful ticipation in the recently held WPA regional We are optimistic for keeping an on-going en- triennium for the WPA meetings added a lot of value to the scientific thusiasm of Sections’ leadership for their fu- Scientific Sections ac- programmes of these meetings. The Sections ture work especially looking at further contri- tivities. Scientific Sec- have also organized training workshops, round butions to the excellence of scientific knowl- tions have continued table discussions and educational activities in different meetings along with producing posi- edge and the development of advanced and Afzal Javed getting involved in dif- tion statements and discussion documents pioneering approaches in psychiatric practice. ferent activities related on important topics that correspond to their to promotion and dissemination of scientific expertise. Afzal Javed knowledge around the globe. We are now a WPA Secretary for Scientific Sections family of 72 Sections and there is still an in- We are preparing a schedule of sections busi- terest in having more to cover other scientific ness meetings at Berlin and hope many of our WPA SCIENTIFIC PUBLICATIONS: BOOKS AND JOURNALS WPA Secretary for Scientific Publications, Michelle B. Riba, [email protected] From the Secretary for Scientific Publications We have come to the end of a very significant organization of the WPA Ibero-American The WPA Scientific Publications Committee triennium, under the leadership of President Library - a repository for Spanish-language has appreciated the help and support of our Dinesh Bhugra and President-Elect Helen scientific texts, supported by the WPA. Our Secretary General Roy Abraham Kallivayalil Herrman. Distinguished members of the journal, World Psychiatry, under the direction in uploading open-access journals to the WPA WPA Scientific Publications Operational of editor in chief, Mario Maj continues to webpage and we continue to add journals Committee include Co-chair Dusica Lecic be one of the leading psychiatric journals from throughout the world to help improve Tosevski; Reinhard Heun, Peter Tyrer, in the world. Prof. Juan Mezzich has edited access, clinical care and scholarship for all. Christopher Szabo, Alfredo Cia, Prabha an extraordinary book on Person Centered We thank Pamela Atiase and Francesca Chandra, Joao Mauricio Castaldelli-Maia. Psychiatry, published by Springer. A new Sotgiu for their hard work and support for It has been a privilege to serve with such an WPA book has been published by Springer: all these years.