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$The WPA Working Group on Medical Students publish an eBook compiling some of the selected essays they received as part of their fellowship award to attend last year\'s WPA World Congress in Bangkok Capacity building and to promote psychiatry among medical students is one of the major components of World Psychiatric Association (WPA) Triennium Action Plan 2020- 2023. In this regard, WPA offered Medical Students the opportunity to win a fellowship (Travel Award) to attend the 22nd WPA World Congress of Psychiatry (WCP22) in Bangkok, Thailand in August 2022.$

WPA News

Apr 12, 2023

WPA Medical Student Working Group Release eBook of Essays on Stigma and Mental Health

By Professor Muhammad Waqar Azeem (Chair of the WPA Working Group on Medical Students)

The WPA Working Group (WG) on Medical Students invited all medical students to submit an essay of up to 1,500 words (including references) on the…

WPA Medical Student Working Group Release Second Video on Stigma

WPA News

Mar 28, 2023

WPA Medical Student Working Group Release Second Video on Stigma

By Dr. Bernardo Ng (Member of the WPA Working Group \"Medical Students\" Leadership team)

A video on “Stigma” is now available on the World Psychiatric Association (WPA) website and YouTube channel The World Health Organization has defined stigma as…

It is with great sadness that we inform WPA members that Emeritus Professor Yrjö Alanen passed away in Finland on the 26th of December 2022. Main awards The mainstay of his professional life was the development of humane holistic care of people experiencing problems within the schizophrenia group of psychoses. In recognition of his exceptional career the World Psychiatric Association granted him the Philippe Pinel Prize for Psychiatry for the person in 2008.

WPA News

Mar 25, 2023

In Memoriam: Professor Yrjö Alanen (1927-2022)

By Jukka Aaltonen and Klaus Lehtinen

Alanen was awarded Honorary Life Membership of the International Society for Psychological and Social Approaches to Psychosis, (ISPS), a society in which he had been…

It is with great sadness that we announce the passing of Professor Pedro Ruiz, MD, who left us on the 14th of March 2023, 14 in League City, Texas, USA at the age of 86. Dr. Ruiz was a renowned psychiatrist, educator, and researcher who made significant contributions to the field of mental health throughout his distinguished career. As one of World Psychiatric Association’s (WPA) former President (2011-2014), the news of Professor Pedro Ruiz has come as a great shock and with huge sadness to WPA, his family, friends, colleagues and members of the psychiatric fraternity.

WPA News

Mar 23, 2023

Obituary: Professor Pedro Ruiz (1936-2023)

By Dr. Afzal Javed, President, WPA

Aside from his presidency with WPA, Dr. Pedro Ruiz was professor & Executive Vice Chair as well as Director of Clinical Programs at the Department…

McMaster University’s Psychotherapy Training e-Resources (PTeR) now on WPA’s Education Portal

WPA News

Mar 20, 2023

McMaster University’s Psychotherapy Training e-Resources (PTeR) now on WPA’s Education Portal

McMaster University’s Psychotherapy Training e-Resources (PTeR) can now be accessed via World Psychiatric Association\'s (WPA) Education Portal

By WPA Education Coordinator

WPA is excited to announce that the McMaster University’s Psychotherapy Training e-Resources (PTeR) can now be accessed via its own Education Portal. PTeR is a…

Professor Julian Paul Leff, aged 82, died at home on Tuesday 23 February, 2021 surrounded by the family he loved. Julian was a pioneer in cultural and social psychiatry leading on several innovative approaches. Born in London on 4 July 1938 to a family committed to equality and equity, he carried these values into his working life.

WPA News

Mar 20, 2023

In Memoriam: Professor Julian Leff (1938-2021)

By Prof Dinesh Bhugra, Past President WPA (2014-2017)

Julian’s maternal great-grandfather, Marcus, migrated from Lithuania to the UK, and it was this family history - combined with his upbringing - that first influenced…