As COVID-19 (caused by the virus SARS-CoV-2) sweeps the globe causing high morbidity and mortality; psychiatrists, their patients, famili...

The COVID-19 pandemic influences both physical and mental health, the economy, as well as social life on all continents. Suicide is of in...

Michel Botbol, Secretary for Scientific Publications of the WPA, and César Alfonso, Chair of the WPA Psychotherapy Section, will be Guest...

The impact of COVID-19 on many areas of our lives is indisputable. All over the world we have seen strict limitations imposed on social ...

The coronavirus infection has created new circumstances globally and has posed important questions some of which have to be faced urgentl...

The Ministry of Health, Hospital de Clínicas de Porto Alegre and several Brazilian institutions such as WPA member society, Associação de...

A new, free-to-access, online public mental health training module has recently been launched at https://www.minded.org.uk/Component/Deta...

The World Psychiatric Association has given priority to establishing best practice in engaging with service users and family carers. This...

The June 2020 issue of leading WPA Journal, World Psychiatry, is now available (in English) on the WPA website. Recognising the current C...

With the onset of COVID-19, mental health services around the globe are experiencing their own vulnerability and limitations. Patients wi...

It was with shock and sadness that the World Psychiatric Association (WPA) received the tragic news of the sudden passing of Professor Be...

Advice for Managing the Covid-19 Outbreak and the Associated Factors of Mental Distress for People with Intellectual Disability and Autis...

As they face the unprecedented Coronavirus Pandemic, members of the Turkish Neuropsychiatric Society are working uninterrupted to serve t...

News of the sudden passing of Dr Anshuman Pant came as a great shock to the members and office bearers of the World Psychiatric Associati...

Within just over a week of the World Health Organization (WHO) declaring COVID-19 a global pandemic, the World Psychiatric Association (W...

WPA shares its heartfelt condolences following the passing of Prof. Julio Arboleda-Florez on 29 March 2020 at Kingston, Ontario, Canada, w...

On Saturday 15 February 2020, the World Psychiatric Association (WPA) Working Group on Medical Students, in collaboration with the Qatar ...

The World Psychiatric Association, Pakistan Psychiatric Research Centre, Department of Psychiatry Sidra Medicine, Weill Cornell Medicine ...

Colleagues, When I last wrote to you at the end of January, it was difficult to imagine that COVID-19 would be the force throughout our g...

The World Health Organisation (WHO) is urging people to "Be Ready" for COVID-19 (Coronavirus) by following simple recommendations to help...