World Psychiatric Association

Buenos Aires 2011 General Assembly

Agenda Item 7: Admission, Name change and Reinstatement of sections

Prof. Miguel R. Jorge, M.D., Ph.DWPA Secretary for Sections

Annex 1

Sections Admission and Name Change

• Admission of a New Section:Section on Evolutionary Psychiatry(approved by the WPA EC at an ad

hoc basis on April 16-17, 2011)

• Section Name Change:No proposal

Section on Evolutionary Psychiatry• Purpose:• Evolution is now perhaps the only framework that can

accommodate and thereby help integrate biomedical psychiatry with psychotherapy and social medicine. Thus, in a perfect world, all psychiatrists should adopt an evolutionary perspective, so that there should be no need for a separate discipline of evolutionary psychiatry. But the re-introduction of modern Darwinian science to psychiatry - though vibrant - is a rather young enterprise.

• A WPA Section of Evolutionary Psychiatry will join in this enterprise and so enrich all of psychiatry serve.

• The main rationale for the establishment of the Section is to recognize the powerful integrative capacity that evolution brings to psychiatry. The WPA can substantially facilitate the promise that evolutionary psychiatry has to fill in many gaps in knowledge among the sciences (and humanities) that are the component parts of and its importance for both psychiatry and evolution.

Section on Evolutionary Psychiatry• Membership:• Convening Chair: Daniel R. Wilson, MD, PhD (USA)• Convening Co-Chair: John S. Price, MD (UK & India)• Convening Committee Members: Keisuke Takahata, MD (Japan);

Gary Galambos, MD (Australia); John Burns, MD (South Africa)• General Members: Mark Erickson (USA); Leon Sloman

(Canada); Daniel Nettle (UK); Julia Sherman (USA); JA Thomson (USA); Martin Bruene (Germany); Dan Stein (South Africa); Hagop Akiskal (USA); John Beahrs (USA); Marco Bacciagaluppi (Italy); Javaid Sheikh (Qatar); Cornelis B. Bakker (USA); Aaron Beck (USA); Liza Boyko (Russia); Gerald Cory (China); John Evaldson (USA); Anton Fuerlinger (Austria); Sherif Atallah (Egypt); Ivor Jones (Australia); Koenraad Kortmulder (Netherlands); Iver Mystrud (Norway); Randolph Nesse (USA); John Richer (UK); Johan Verhulst (USA); Vikram Yerigani (India); Jaak Panksepp (USA); Michael McGuire (USA); Alphonse Triosi (Italy); Maram Wardakan (Egypt);

Reinstatement of Sections: Sections must be reinstated every three years by the Executive Committee, upon recommendation

of the Secretary for Sections.

Reinstatement Questionnaire sent to all 65 Sections

No answer from two Sections(from which Chairs died or is very ill)

World Association of PsychiatryBy-Laws, Section X, Item 31

Number of Sections Which Developed Different Activities Required

Activities Reported Out of 63

Activities Developed Since Prague 60

Activities Planned Up To Buenos Aires 61

Activities with Member Societies 43

Activities with Other Sections 45

Consensus or Position Statements 22

Educational Program, Guidelines or Publications 46

Information Collected 39

Information Disseminated 48

International Collaborative Research 33

Organization of Scientific Meetings 46

Organization of Symposia or Courses at WPA Meetings 59

Theory Development/Testing; Practice/Research Relation 29

Training and Teaching 39

Working Relations with Other Organizations 53

Sections Journals*Affective Disorders – Journal of Affective Disorders

Classification, Diagnostic Assessment and Nomenclature – Psychopathology

Clinical Psychopathology* - Psychopathology

Disaster Psychiatry – Revue Francophone du Stress et du Trauma + Revista de Psicotrauma

Ecology, Psychiatry and Mental Health – Idee in Psichiatria

Mass Media and Mental Health – Revista Electrónica de FINTECO (online)

Mental Health Economics – The Journal of Mental Health Policy and Economics

Personality Disorders – Personality and Mental Health

Psychiatric Rehabilitation – International Journal of Mental Health

Psychiatry of Intellectual Disability – Journal of Intellectual Disability Research

Rural Mental Health – Psychiatry in General Practice

Transcultural Psychiatry – Transcultural Psychiatry

Women’s Mental Health – Archives of Women’s Mental Health

*owned or in collaboration

21 Sections Which Did’nt Meet Criteria for ReinstatementLast Election

YearCurrent Number

of MembersOrganization of Symposia or

Courses at WPA MeetingsBiological Psychiatry 2005 NoInfo YesBrain and Pain 2008 12 YesConflict Management and Resolution 2008 12 YesFamily Research and Intervention 2008 19 YesGenetics in Psychiatry 2008 9 YesHistory of Psychiatry 2008 NoInfo YesMass Media and Mental Health 2008 12 YesMental Health Economics 2008 9 YesMilitary Psychiatry NoInfo 8 NoInfoNeuroimaging in Psychiatry 2005 35 YesOccupational Psychiatry NoInfo NoInfo NoInfo

Perinatal Psychiatry and Infant Mental Health 2008 NoInfo NoInfoPsychiatry and Human Sexuality 2008 13 YesPsychiatry, Law and Ethics NoInfo 11 NoInfoPsychiatry, Medicine and Primary Care 2008 12 Yes

Psychological Consequences of Tortureand Political Persecution 2008 50 NoPsychoneurobiology 1996 NoInfo Yes

Psychoneuroendocrinology 2008 NoInfo Yes

Quality Assurance 2008 15 Yes

Reseach Methods in Psychiatry NoInfo NoInfo NoInfo

Rural Mental Health NoInfo NoInfo Yes

Operational Committee* on Sections Summary of Considerations

September 2nd, 2010

Beijing, China

Members: Miguel R. Jorge (Chair) Michaela Amering

Luis Salvador-Carulla (absent) Russel D’Souza Ron Winthrob

Operational Committee Considerations• Performance of WPA Sections was in general

considered very good• Despite some particular problems, reinstatement of all

WPA Sections were recommended, with feedback to be offered to them about their performances

• Unless otherwise indicated by particular Sections or members, a recommendation was made to placing the names, countries and emails of all Sections members in the Sections area of the WPA website

• Limitation to one official Section Symposium for the WCP penalize those more productive Sections and is not in favor of promoting intersectional collaboration

OC on Sections Suggestions to the WPA Planning Committee

• Instead of a Chair and a Co-Chair, Sections needs a Chair and a Chair-Elected in order to guarantee a smooth continuity of activities

• Elections for Sections Officers will be held by electronic ballots through email communication just before the World Congresses of Psychiatry and not in a meeting during the Congresses

• Templates for a Sections By-Laws and Work Plan need to be developed and offered to them