Celebrating Excellence

In October 2025, the World Psychiatric Association met for its annual Congress, and amid the papers and proceedings something of quieter consequence occurred. A document was opened for signature, the Prague Agreement, modest in its wording and considerable in its reach. It asks the world to fund mental health as it ought to be funded, and it makes that case not on compassion alone, but on economics. The scale is not in doubt. Mental ill-health costs the world in the region of