Sectorial Activities - Scientific Sections


WPA Sections and their Chairs
Addiction Psychiatry:Nady El-Guebaly (Canada)
Affective Disorders:Christopher Thompson(United Kingdom)
Anxiety & Obsessive Compulsive Disorders:Joseph Zohar (Israel)
Art and Psychiatry:Carlos Carbonell (Spain)
Biological Psychiatry:Mohammed Abou-Saleh (United Kingdom)
Child & Adolescent Psychiatry:Barry Narcombe
Classification, Diagnostic Assessment & Nomenclature:Carlos Berganza (Guatemala)
Clinical Psychopathology:Stein Opjordsmoen (Norway)
Conflict Management & Resolution:Eliot Sorel (USA)
Eating Disorders:Katherine A. Halmi (USA)
Ecology, Psychiatry & Mental Health:Giuseppe Spinetti (Italy)
      Italian Web: www.ecopsi.it
      English Web: www.ecopsy.org
Education in Psychiatry:Linda Gask (UK)
Emergency Psychiatry:Giordano Invernizzi (Italy)
Epidemiology & Public Health:James Anthony
Family Research & Intervention:Gabor Keitner
Forensic Psychiatry:Julio Arboleda-Florez (Canada)
Genetics in Psychiatry:Wolfgang Maier (Germany)
History of Psychiatry:Paul Hoff (Switzerland)
Humanities in Psychiatry:KWM Fulford (UK)
Immunology & Psychiatry:Carlo Cazzullo (Italy)
Informatics and Telecommunications in Psychiatry:Pier Maria Furlan (Italy)
Interdisciplinary Collaboration:Uriel Halbreich (USA)
Mass Media & Mental Health:Miguel Angel Materazzi (Argentina)
Measurement Instruments in Psychiatric Care:Assen Jablensky (Australia)
Mental Health Economics:Katarzyna Prot-Klinger (Poland)
Mental Retardation:Luis Salvador-Carulla (Spain)
Military & Disaster Psychiatry:Moty Benyakar (Argentina)
Neuroimaging in Psychiatry:Nancy Andreasen (USA)
Occupational Psychiatry:Lennart Levi (Sweden)
Old Age Psychiatry:Edmond Chiu (Australia)
Personality Disorders:Erik Simonsen (Denmark)
Pharmacopsychiatry:Annette Gjerris (Denmark)
Preventive Psychiatry:Dusica Lecic-Tosevski (Yugoslavia)
Private Practice:Hagop Akiskal (USA)
Psychiatric Rehabilitation:Robert Cancro (USA)
Psychiatry and Human Sexuality:Rubén Hernández-Serrano (Venezuela)
Psychiatry & Sleep Wakefulness Disorders:Constantin Soldatos (Greece)
Psychiatry, Law and Ethics:Amnon Carmi (Israel)
Psychiatry, Medicine & Primary Care:Rodolfo Fahrer (Argentina) 
Psychoanalysis in Psychiatry:Simon-Daniel Kipman (France)
Psychological Consequences of Torture & Persecution:Inge Genefke (Denmark)
Psychoneurobiology:Giusepp Chiarenza (Italy)
Psychoneuroendocrinology:Charles Nemeroff (USA)
Psycho-oncology:Jimmie C. Holland (USA)
Psychophysiology:Werner Strik (Switzerland)
Psychotheraphy:Russell Gardner, Jr. (USA)
Public Policy and Psychiatry:Helen Herrman (Australia)
Quality Assurance in Psychiatry:John McIntyre (USA)
Religion, Spirituality and Psychiatry:Herman Van Praag
Research Methods in Psychiatry:Jean-Paul Macher (France) 
Schizophrenia: Wolfgang Gaebel (Germany)
Suicidology:Jean-Pierre Soubrier
Transcultural Psychiatry:Goffredo Bartocci (Italy)
Urban Mental Health:Giovanni Caracci (USA)
Women's Mental Health:Donna Stewart (Canada)