What to expect

The core programme will encompass the following topics:

1. Neurocognitive disorders, organic mental disorders, dementia
2. Mental disorders due to psychotropic substances, behavioural addictions
3. Psychotic disorders
4. Affective disorders
5. Neurotic, stress-related and somatoform disorders
6. Eating disorders, sleep disorders and other disorders
7. Personality disorders
8. Disorders closely related to childhood and adolescence
9. Comorbidity of somatic and mental disorders, psychosomatics
10. Geriatric psychiatry
11. Other disorders
12. Epidemiology and risk factors
13. Brain imaging, neurophysiology, neuropsychology
14. Neurobiology and genetics
15. Cross-disorder mechanisms and principles
16. Diagnostics and classification, psychopathology, RDoC
17. Psychotherapy
18. Pharmacotherapy
19. Stimulation methods and interdisciplinary interventions
20. Prevention and health promotion
21. Rehabilitation and work
22. Community and social psychiatry
23. Health care research and models, health care policy
24. Forensic psychiatry and assessment
25. Training and continuing education
26. Ethics and philosophy
27. Religion and spirituality
28. History, art and cultural sciences
29. Quality assurance in psychiatry
30. Human sexuality
31. Suicide and psychiatric emergencies
32. Violence and trauma
33. Rural and urban mental health
34. Psychiatry in developing regions
35. Psychiatry and society
36. Social determinants of mental health
37. Stigma and mental health
38. Human rights
39. Social discrimination against people with mental illness
40. Mass media and mental health
41. Poverty and mental health
42. Population movements
43. Social justice
44. Other topics