The Hellenic Psychiatric Association was founded in 1986 in Athens. The aim of HPA is to promote Psychiatry in Greece, to strengthen the communication and cooperation of Greek psychiatrists both with and with their colleagues from other countries as well as with other medical or non-specialties related to Psychiatry. Among the main goals of the HPA is the promotion and strengthening of psychiatric clinical practice in Greece and the prevention of mental health, the safeguarding of the rights of mentally ill patients and the promotion of psychiatric education and research in Greece.