26th World Congress of Psychiatry (WCP 2026)

The 26th World Congress of Psychiatry (WCP 2026) deals with trends and achievements in psychiatric practice and research.

Key Topics

• Addictions
• Addictions to psychotropic substances
• Adversity and Psychiatry (Violence & Mental Health; Poverty & Mental Health; Mental Health of Refugees and Displaced Persons)
• ADHD
• Art and Psychiatry
• Anxiety Disorders
• Bipolar disorders
• Autism spectrum disorders
• Classification, Diagnostic Assessment and Nomenclature
• Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (including Infant Psychiatry)
• Conflict Management & Resolution
• Comorbidity of mental and somatic disorders
• COVID-19
• Consultation Liaison Psychiatry
• Depressive disorders
• Dementia
• Digital Psychiatry
• Developmental Psychopathology
• Early Interventions in Psychiatry
• Dissociative and Somatization Disorders
• Ecology, Psychiatry and Mental Health
• Eating Disorders
• Emergency Psychiatry
• Education in Psychiatry
• Epigenetics
• Epidemiology in Psychiatry
• Evolutionary Psychiatry
• Ethical Issues in Psychiatry
• Family Therapies
• Exercise & Sports Psychiatry
• Gambling and Internet Abuse
• Forensic Psychiatry
• Genetics in Psychiatry
• Gender and Mental Health
• History of Psychiatry
• Harmful use of alcohol and drugs
• Immunology in Psychiatry
• Human Rights and Mental Health
• Linguistics and Psychiatry
• Intellectual Disabilities
• Medically Unexplained Symptoms
• Male Gender and Mental Health
• Mental Health Economics
• Mental Health and Public Health (Organization of Mental Health Care; Primary Care Mental Health)
• Mental Health Users and Care Givers
• Mental Health of Women and Girls
• Minor Cognitive deficit
• Military Psychiatry
• Neuro-imaging
• Mood Disorders and other depression and anxiety
• Neuromodulation (including DBS, TMS; tDCS, VNS; Neurofeedback)
• Neurological-Psychiatric syndromes
• Obsessive-compulsive disorders
• Neuroscience and psychiatry
• Other themes on Treatments in Psychiatry
• Perinatal Disorders
• Philosophy and Humanities in Psychiatry
• Personality Disorders
• Psychiatric Institutions
• Private Practice in Psychiatry
• Psychiatry and belief systems
• Psychiatric Nursing
• Psycho-oncology
• Psychiatry in Developing Countries
• Psychopharmacology
• Psychopathology and Epistemological issues in psychiatry
• Rehabilitation of people with mental disorders
• Psychotherapies
• Research Methods in Psychiatry
• Religion, spirituality and psychiatry
• Schizophrenia and Psychotic Spectrum Disorders
• Robotics and web-technologies
• Somatic Treatments other than pharmacotherapy
• Sleep Wakefulness Disorders
• Suicidology (Neurobiology and Genetics, Preventing Suicide and Suicidal Behavior)
• Stigma and Mental Illness
• Urban Mental Health
• Old Age Psychiatry
• Other themes on Disorders