The 62nd National Psychiatry Congress of the Psychiatric Association of Türkiye takes place in Ankara from 14 to 18 October 2026, under the main theme "Mental Health in Uncanny Times" (Tekinsiz Zamanlarda Ruh Sağlığı).
The theme is deliberate and closely argued in the congress invitation. Building on the previous year's emphasis on the social foundations of health, the 2026 edition takes that argument onto deeper existential and spatial ground. The organisers describe the present historical moment as characterised not only by economic crisis but by the estrangement of the familiar — the uncanny: feeling homeless while at home, and the sudden transformation of institutions, streets and relationships once assumed safe into sources of threat. The field of mental health, they argue, now operates in a context where social bonds are dissolving and precarity has become the rule, and the congress is structured to examine what that means for clinical practice.
Around this frame the five-day programme covers the breadth of the discipline: mood and anxiety disorders, psychotic disorders, addiction, child and adolescent psychiatry, consultation-liaison psychiatry, psychotherapies, psychopharmacology, forensic psychiatry, and social and community psychiatry. A dedicated Mood Disorders Symposium (Duygudurum Sempozyumu) runs within the congress, and a parallel course track serves residents and early-career psychiatrists.
The congress operates an unusually developed academic support structure: an activity proposal system through which members can submit session ideas, a scholarship (burs) programme, a Research Abstract Award, and published speaker guidance. Abstract submission, invited speaker listings and downloadable files are all available on the congress site.
Registration and accommodation are arranged through the official portal, which also publishes the boards, general information and the full scientific programme.
