The plenary sessions will address the main themes of the congress.

Each of the presidential symposia will last 60 minutes and will discuss topical themes relevant to the WPA Action Plan.

These sessions are reviews of the most important developments in the field covered by the title of the session. They are developed by the WPA Scientific sections.

These sessions are a fruit of collaboration between WPA and other organizations. The sessions involve representatives from WPA and from the collaborating organizations.

During the Congress there will be several Special lectures addressing issues of particular importance by well known speakers.

This Corner will serve as a hub to summarise advancements in clinical psychiatry, public mental health, and ethics, while fostering diversity and inclusiveness. The platform, dedicated to clinicians, will feature online webinars on different psychiatric diagnoses, where expert specialists will present, in an accessible, categorical approach, state-of-the-art treatments and best practices for daily psychiatric work, covering aetiology, symptoms, comorbidities with physical illness, and rehabilitation strategies from the gender, developmental stage, and cultural perspectives. This introductory categorical webinar (or webinars) will be complemented by a follow-up webinar (or webinars) on the same diagnosis, and will feature Prevention, Healthy lifestyles, Caregiver and family, Digital psychiatry, and Human rights/Ethics perspectives from experts in those fields. For more information click here.

These are sessions which use different innovative methods to address a theme. They are developed in collaboration with early career psychiatrists. The sessions last one hour and on this occasion include:

Difficult case discussions – During these sessions early career psychiatrists, supported by a senior expert will present case histories of people with mental disorders whose diagnosis and management presented a number of problems. The speakers will describe the cases highlighting the issues and invite the audience to engage in a discussion and in the search for solutions to the problems which they faced.

The WPA three-minute competition – This competition will be an interactive session with a series of short presentations aiming to improve presentation skills of early career psychiatrists (ECP) and facilitate an exchange among them. The format of the competition aims to encourage early career psychiatrists to effectively explain their topic in 3 minutes in a clear and succinct way, improving the manner of their presentation and trying to capture the audience’s attention. The audience will select the most attractive presentation by voting and the winner will receive a prize.

These sessions represent a particularly important part of the congress. Each of the panel sessions will address a topic of importance selected by The Scientific Committee of the congress. There will be no formal presentations during the panel.

These are symposia that were submitted to the Scientific Committee and accepted into the program. There will be one or two co-chairs and two to  three speakers for each symposium. There should be no more than two persons from the same country in each symposium.

These sessions will be composed of oral presentations selected by the Scientific Committee from those submitted through abstract submission. The presentations will be grouped according to the list of topics produced for the Congress. Each speaker will have 10 minutes for the presentation (8 minute talk and 2 minutes for questions and answers).

E-posters will be displayed in the E-poster Gallery throughout the congress.