EPA has established sections that have their own steering committees. The 18 active EPA sections focus on the different subspecialties of psychiatry. Their mission is to collect and disseminate information, to establish working relations between individuals and with different national and international bodies working in the same field, and to achieve greater coordination. These Sections organise their own symposia under the aegis of EPA, and annual conferences in Europe.

List of EPA sections:

• Alcoholism and Drug Addiction

• Child and Adolescent Psychiatry

• Consultation Liaison Psychiatry

• Cultural Psychiatry

• Emergency Psychiatry

• Epidemiology and Social Psychiatry

• Forensic Psychiatry

• Geriatric Psychiatry

• Neuroimaging

• Personality and Personality Disorders

• Philosophy and Psychiatry

• Prevention of Mental Disorders

• Psychopathology

• Psychopharmacology

• Psychotherapy

• Schizophrenia

• Suicidology and Suicide Prevention

• Women’s Mental Health