The INPP International Conference Series
INPP has co-ordinated a series of annual international conferences running from 1997.
The first conference in the INPP Conference Series was held in Malaga (Spain) convened by Bill Fulford (Royal College of Psychiatrists Philosophy Group) and John Sadler (AAPP). The series has run annually since then with conferences organised by individuals and groups in every part of the world.
The link below takes you to a list of past and future INPP international conferences.
Next INPP Conference
INPP Conference Calendar
| Date | Location | Theme | Organsiers | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| October 8 - 9, 2026 | Nijmegen, the Netherlands | What can Philosophy do for Mental Health Care? | Organising Committee | Registrations Open |
Past Conferences
| Date | Location | Organsiers | Programme | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1997 | Spain – Malaga | Fulford/Sadler | First International Conference on Philosophy and Mental Health | Programme |
| 1998 | France - Marseille | Naudin | Vulnérabilité et Destin | Poster Programme |
| 1999 | France - Nice | Pringue/Sammy-Kohl | Schizophrenia and Identity | Programme |
| 2000 | Italy - Florence | Giovanni | Madness, Science and Society: Florence, Renaissance 2000 | Programme |
| 2001 | France - Paris | Granger | Pain and Depression | Programme |
| 2002 | Finland - Turku (Trainees Conference) | Suomela/Heinimaa | 1st International Congress of Psychiatric Trainees on Science, Ethics and Philosophy | Programme |
| 2002 | South Africa - Cape Town | van Staden | Launch of INPP at the two-day International Launch of INPP at the two-day International Symposium on the Philosophy and Ethics of Psychiatry, hosted by The South African Society of Psychiatrists’ 12th National Psychiatry Congress: The Psychiatrist, the Patient, the Community (September 23 – 27) | Cover of the SASOP Programme Two day launch programme |
| 2003 | Brazil - Brasília | da Costa | Ethics, Language and Suffering | Programme |
| 2004 | Germany - Heidelberg | Fuchs/Mundt | Time, Memory and History | Programme and Abstracts |
| 2005 | USA - Yale | Davidson | Time, Memory and History New Philosophies for Community Psychiatry: Recovery Oriented, Evidence-Based and Beyond | Programme |
| 2006 | Netherlands - Leiden | Glas/Ralston | Philosophy. Psychiatry and the Neurosciences | Programme |
| 2007 | South Africa - Cape Town | van Staden | Hypotheses, Neuro Science & Real Persons | Final announcement and programme Pre-conference editorial Post-conference report |
| 2008 | USA - Dallas | Sadler | Psychiatry and Freedom | Programme and abstracts |
| 2009 | Portugal - Lisbon | Figuera | Understanding Mental Disorders | Programme |
| 2010 | India - Mumbai | Ajai and Shakuntala Singh | Mind, Brain and Consciousness | Programme Concurrent sessions |
| 2010 | UK - Preston/Manchester | Heginbotham/Thornton/Patel | Real People: The Self in Mental Health and Social Care | Call for abstracts Programme |
| 2011 | Sweden - Gothenberg | Malmgren | Ethics, Experience and Evidence: Integration of Perspectives in Psychiatry | Programme |
| 2012 | New Zealand - Otago | Gillett/Pickering/Stetslow | Culture and Mental Health | Programme |
| 2013 | St Catherine’s College, Oxford University, UK | Harcourt/Avramides/ Fulford | UK Travelling Symposium - International Summer School: Mind, Values and Mental Health | Summer School timetable |
| 2013 | University of Durham, UK | Taylor-Aiken/Bowden/ Ratcliffe | UK Travelling Symposium (Durham) - Current and Future Applications of Phenomenology in Psychiatry | Durham Programme |
| 2013 | London, UK | Fulford/Sadler | UK Travelling Symposium - PPP (Philosophy, Psychiatry & Psychology) Editorial Board Meeting | PPP Editorial Board meeting agenda PPP Review of Activity to July 2013 |
| 2013 | Kings College, London | Bolton/Fulford | UK Travelling Symposium (King’s College, London) - Conceptual Issues and the DSM | Delegate list and programme |
| 2013 | Pitt Building, Cambridge University UK | Fulford/Peile | UK Travelling Symposium (Cambridge) - Teaching, Learning and Implementing Values-based Practice | Programme |
| 2013 | St Catherine’s College, Oxford University UK | Fulford/Handa | UK Travelling Symposium Oxford) - Making Change Happen | Programme |
| 2014 | Bulgaria - Plovdiv | Stoyanov | Neuroscience, Logics, Mental Development | Programme Abstracts |
| 2015 | Chile - Frutillar | Doerr/Stanghellini | Why do Humans Become Mentally Ill? Anthropological, biological and cultural vulnerabilities of mental illness | Artwork and first announcement |
| 2016 | Brazil - Sao Paolo | Messas | Psychopathology of the Present: Theory and Practice | Programme (Portuguese) Opening presentation YouTube links for keynotes Proceedings (in Portugese) |
| 2017 | Spain - Madrid | Lopez-Ibor | Philosophy and Psychiatry: Contributions of Neuroscience | Artwork and flyerProgramme |
| 2018 | Hong Kong | Wong | History, Philosophy and Ethics of Psychiatry: The State of Play in the 21st Century | Handbook and abstracts |
| 2019 | Krakow, Poland | Banicki | The Many Faces of Personality Disorder | Artwork Programme |
| 2019 | Warsaw, Poland | Tecz | Experts and Representations in Mental Health | Summary programme and artworkProgramme Meeting announcement |
| 2020 | UK - Manchester | Bergqvist | Experts by Experience: a Critical Discourse One-day Conference | Schedule and artwork |
| 2022 | UK - Manchester | Bergqvist | Philosophy of Psychiatry and Lived Experience: New Models of Mental Health | Artwork Programme |
| 2023 | Portugal - Lisbon | Telles | Half-day symposium: Revisiting Critical Issues in Psychiatric Diagnosis | Programme |
| 2024 | Austria - Vienna | Musalek | 25th Annual Conference of the International Network for Philosophy and Psychiatry Crises and Mental Health: philosophical and social aesthetic perspectives | Programme Booklet |
| 2025 | Germany - Leipzig | Schonknecht | Psychopathology: Interface of Basic Sciences and Scholarly Disciplines |
How to organise a conference in the series
We welcome proposals for future conferences in the series – these are considered by INPP’s Executive Officers.