Seeing the Whole Person: Psychiatric Formulation in the 21st Century

This two-day RSM conference focuses on psychiatric formulation as a practical and intellectual framework for modern mental-health practice. It brings together senior psychiatrists and academic speakers to examine diagnosis, dimensional classification, phenomenology, biopsychosocial causation, social determinants, psychodynamic formulation and narrative meaning. The programme includes detailed day-by-day sessions, small-group breakout streams across psychosis, perinatal psychiatry, dementia, personality disorder, neurodevelopmental presentations, eating disorders and mood disorders, plus discussion of violence risk, child and adolescent formulation, older adults, co-production, professional identity, education and research. It is relevant for psychiatrists, resident doctors, clinical psychologists, mental-health professionals, academics and medical students interested in psychiatry. The event is in person at 1 Wimpole Street, with a conference dinner after day one and registration closing on 9 September 2026 at 08:00 GMT. No public abstract submission route was visible on the inspected RSM page.