Editorial: International Neuropsychiatric Association || FREE PAPER ||

Perminder Sachdev

School of Psychiatry, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, Australia; Neuropsychiatric Institute, Prince of Wales Hospital, Sydney, NSW, Australia; email [email protected]

As professional organizations go, the International Neuropsychiatric Association (INA) is young, having been formed in 1998 when a group of neuropsychiatrists met in Toronto, Canada, to consider the status of their profession. There was a shared sense of optimism, with a feeling that their time had come. They seemed ready to proclaim their professional identity in the form of an association and to meet the immediate challenges.