Special Interest Groups (SIGs)
Aside from our faculties, which represent the main specialties within psychiatry, the College also has 15 Special Interest Groups (SIGs) which provide a forum for members to come together in a particular area of psychiatry.
Our SIGs lead on key issues within psychiatry and mental health, such as diversity, marginalised groups and sustainability. Each Special Interest Group has a Chair and an Executive Committee.

- Adolescent forensic
- Arts psychiatry
- Digital psychiatry
- Evolutionary psychiatry
- History of psychiatry
- Neurodevelopmental psychiatry
- Occupational psychiatry
- Philosophy
- Private and independent practice
- Rainbow SIG (LGBT)
- Spirituality
- Sport and exercise psychiatry
- Transcultural psychiatry
- Women and mental health
- Volunteering and international
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