Psychiatry Section

Aims

For the study and promotion of knowledge in all that relates to Psychiatry.

Members include

Psychiatrists.

Section of Psychiatry programme of events

Psychiatry in Dialogue with Neuroscience, Medicine and Society

After a period of unprecedented growth, psychiatry is facing new challenges in the context of economic austerity and changing professionalism. Psychiatry is also at the threshold of exciting new opportunities:

Research in neuroscience continues dissecting and illuminating the function of the brain in health and disease and offering the promise of prevention and new physical and psychosocial treatments.
The clinical relevance of the inevitable overlap of mental and physical factors in both physical and mental illness is now firmly established and increasingly appreciated by patients, carers and health service commissioners.
New strategies and practices are emerging for commissioning and delivering mental health interventions in the general hospital as well as in mental health services and in the community.

The various "Psychiatry in Dialogue with Neuroscience, Medicine and Society" events will feature a range of speakers from across the world, aiming to address a wide range of concerns from recruitment to clinical practice and from children to older people. Neuroscience, clinical research, the law and the humanities will offer a range of perspectives on issues that matter every day to doctors, patients and the general public, including leaders and policy makers.

With healthcare benefiting from increasing percentage allocation of national resources and assuming industrial proportions as a social enterprise, attention to leadership and the governance arrangements of society in general and health services in particular is becoming ever more important and the programme will reflect this.

Click here for a list of our psychology events in 2012 and 2013