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Mission
To promote the advancement of psychiatry and mental health for all peoples of the world.
Objectives
- To increase knowledge and skills necessary for work in the field of mental health and in the care for the mentally ill.
- To improve the care for the mentally ill.
- To prevent mental disorders.
- To promote mental health.
- To preserve the rights of the mentally ill.
- To promote the development and observance of the highest ethical standards in psychiatric care, teaching and research.
- To promote the development of the highest quality standards in psychiatric care, teaching and research, as well as the observance of such standards.
- To promote non-discrimination (parity) in the provision of care of the mentally ill.
- To protect the rights of psychiatrists.