It is an honor and pleasure for the World Psychiatry Association (WPA) to invite you to join us to the WPA International Congress 2013 entitled “Future Psychiatry: Challenges and Opportunities” that will take place in Vienna, Austria on October 27 – 30, 2013.
Conference Theme
A psychiatry, which places the human being at the centre of its diagnosis and therapy and which is not reduced to conventional indication medicine with its main focus on illness constructs, will primarily take into account in its treatment planning the various physical, psychic and social pathogenetic factus in the patients’ particular life stage. Such a human-based psychiatry will be able to refer not exclusively to evidence-based medical data – no matter how essential this remains as the foundation stone of rational therapy design – but will also have to include in its remedies knowledge which extends beyond medicine and psychiatry in the narrower sense. The resulting complexity of psychiatric diagnostics and treatment will be the main focus of our WPA – Conference in Vienna.
The scientific discussions should bring about and promote the further development of a psychiatry which once again centers on the whole person, a human-based psychiatry which extends beyond medical conditions and clinical pictures and where the human being again becomes the measure of all things.
Conference Topics
- Addiction
- Affective disorders
- Aggression
- Alcoholism
- Alzheimer’s disease
- Animal models in psychiatry
- Antidementia drugs
- Antidepressants
- Antipsychotics
- Anxiety
- Anxiety disorders
- Anxiolytics
- Art and psychiatry
- Attention-deficit/hyperactivity
- Autism
- Behavioural sciences
- Biological markers
- Biological psychiatry
- Biological rhythms
- Bipolar disorder
- Child and adolescent psychiatry
- Classification of disorders
- Clinical psychopharmacology
- Cognitive neuroscience
- Cognitive psychotherapy
- Comorbidity
- Community psychiatry
- Computer and internet applications
- Conflict management
- Cultural psychiatry
- Dementia
- Depression
- Diagnosis
- Disasters and mental health
- Drug dependence/abuse
- Dual diagnosis
- Early identification/high risk
- Eating disorders
- Ecology and psychiatry
- Education in psychiatry
- Electroconvulsive therapy
- Emergency psychiatry
- Epidemiology
- Ethics in psychiatry
- Evidence-based psychiatry
- Family research in psychiatry
- Genetics/molecular genetics
- Group psychotherapies
- Health promotion
- History of psychiatry
- Humanities in psychiatry
- Human sexuality
- Hypnotics
- Impulse control disorders
- Impulsivity
- Interpersonal psychotherapy
- Law & forensic psychiatry
- Lithium
- Mass media and mental health
- Memory and cognitive disorders
- Mental health care
- Mental health economics
- Mental retardation
- Molecular neurobiology
- Mood disorders
- Mood stabilizers disorder (ADHD)
- Neuroanatomy
- Neuropathology
- Neurochemistry
- Neurodevelopment
- Neuroimaging
- Neurophysiology
- Neuroprotection
- Neurotransmitters
- Obsessive-compulsive disorder
- Occupational psychiatry
- Old age psychiatry
- Panic disorder
- Pain
- Personality disorders
- Positive health (functioning, resilience, resources)
- Preventive psychiatry
- Private practice
- Psychiatric services
- Psychiatry in primary care
- Psychoanalysis and psychodynamic psychiatry
- Psychoneuroendocrinology
- Psychoneuroimmunology
- Psychopathology
- Psycho-oncology
- Psychotic Disorders
- Psychopharmacology
- Public health and psychiatry
- Quality assurance
- Quality of life
- Rehabilitation
- Research strategies and methods
- Schizophrenia
- Sleep disorders
- Social psychiatry
- Somatoform disorders
- Spirituality and psychiatry
- Stress
- Suicidality
- Torture
- Urban mental health
- Values in psychiatric practice
- Women’s mental health
Plenary Speakers
- Stephan Doering
- Jeffrey Alan Lieberman
- Charles B. Nemeroff
- Franz Resch
- Nora D. Volkow
- Danuta Wasserman