World Psychiatry, the official journal of the World Psychiatric Association, is the most widespread psychiatric journal in the world, reaching more than 33,000 psychiatrists in 121 countries, and being for many thousands of them the only accessible international psychiatric journal. The journal is published regularly in seven languages: English, Spanish, Chinese, Russian, French, Arabic and Turkish. Individual papers or abstracts are translated in further languages, including Japanese, Polish, Romanian and Italian, and posted on the WPA website ( http://www.wpanet.orgwww.wpanet.org) and/or those of the relevant WPA Member Societies.