Russian Society of Psychiatrists
Date of creation: 1992
Number of members (as of December 2012): 500
Objectives and mission of the association:
- Improvement of care for mentally ill people
- Research in the field of mental health
- Promotion of ethical and legal principles in clinical practice and research
- Provision of the civil rights of the patients
- Development of the postgraduate medical education in psychiatry
- Cooperation with other specialists in the sphere of medicine
- Collaboration with other societies and international institutions in the sphere of mental health
President: Prof. Nikolay G. Neznanov
Prof. Nikolay Neznanov
Official Representative to EPA: Prof. Valery Krasnov
Headquarters:
Moscow Research Institute of Psychiatry
Poteshnaya Str. 3
107076 Moscow
RUSSIA
Tel: + 7 495 963 76 26
Fax: + 7 495 963 76 24
E-mail address: rop@s-psy.ru
Website: www.psychiatr.ru
Major meeting/event(s):
All-Russian Conference of Psychiatrists (annual)
Next meeting: November 2012
For more information, contact krasnov@mtu-net.ru
Journal: Social and Clinical Psychiatry, Zhurnal nevrologii i psikiatrii imeni S.S. Korsakova www.medpractika.ru www.mediasphera.ru
Independent Psychiatric Association of Russia
Date of creation: 1989
Number of members (as of December 2012): 300
Objectives and mission of the association:
The objectives of the IPAR are:
- Identifying the scientific and practical priorities of Russian psychiatry and promoting work in these directions;
- Establishing the new general scientific paradigm in psychiatry;
- Opposing anti-psychiatric tendencies
- Contributing to human rights observation in Russian psychiatry
- Threatening legal base of psychiatry; providing guarantees for enforcing the Law on Psychiatric Care;
- Promoting the professionalisation of Russian psychiatrists both in ethical and proper professional aspects;
- Regaining and reinforcing popular trust in psychiatry.
The IPAR’s mission is
- To be the example of genuine conformity the scientific and professional values in the spirit of “General Psychopathology” by K. Jaspers, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the WPA Ethical Code;
- Filling up the gaps of national psychiatry of the soviet period (non-prejudicial position, supremacy of interests of patients, independent position in all professional social and legal questions);
- Using membership of considerable part of our members in the mass Russian Society of Psychiatrists (12 000 to our 600) to be worthy example, kind of Guards
President: Dr. Yury Savenko
Official Representative to EPA: Dr. Yury Savenko
Headquarters:
Luchnikov lane, 4, doorway 3
101000 Moscow
RUSSIA
Tel: +7 495 625 0620
Fax: +7 495 621 0320
E-mail address: info@npar.ru
Website: www.npar.ru
Major meeting/event(s):
IPAR regular congress of psychiatry (every three years)
Next meeting: September 2013
Journal: Independent Psychiatric Journal