Dear Colleagues, friends and mental health advocates, 

Greetings from the President’s desk! 

I have immense pleasure in announcing the 77th annual conference of the Indian Psychiatry Society (ANCIPS) being held in Delhi on Jan 28-31st, 2026. This is the most prestigious national event and a largest congregation of psychiatrists from India and abroad who meet annually to share their thoughts, work, research and innovations, for mutual exchange and learning. This is also an opportunity to build professional and social networks, academic collaborations, brain storming and exploring new vistas for research and patient care.

This year’s theme, “Unshackling Psychiatry for Society’s Mental Health”, is both critical and provocative. The discipline of psychiatry and its clinical practice is shackled under centuries old historical traditions and mindset, and needs to be unshackled by embracing the 21st century science, that has brought psychiatry much closer to physical medicine. Mental health care systems, laws, and public image of psychiatry must change in favor of it being a core medical discipline, that will remove stigma, increase acceptability and access to treatment. I am sure there will be high quality discussions, debates and guidance through a rigorously planned and curated scientific program on various topics and themes related to psychiatry and its specialties. 

The venue of the conference will be ‘YASHOBHOOMI’, India International Convention & Expo Center (IICC), Dwarka, Delhi. This is one of the most prestigious convention facility in the national capital with the world class convention facilities, and will surely provide an exquisite conference experience to participants and delegates. Moreover, Delhi provides a lot more than just the conference event in terms of history and culture, sight- seeing and shopping, food and entertainment, diversity and unity of India. 

The organizing team led by Dr Nimesh Desai along with Dr Deepak Raheja, Dr J M Wadhawan and Dr Pankaj Kumar are working very hard to plan and put together all the arrangements for your comfort and convenience. We are sure that this will be one of the memorable conferences. 

On behalf of the executive council of the IPS and my own behalf as President of IPS, I am delighted and honored to invite you all to this great event making the conference a great success, and making the IPS strong and proud. We look forward to welcome you and see you at the ANCIPS in Jan 2026 in Delhi.