Abstract
This paper summarizes the plenary and opening talk of WFSBP 2013. In the first half of the talk, three essential messages from cutting - edge biological science to psychiatry (clinical psychiatry) were described as follows: (1) there is one continuum of psychiatric conditions, even beyond the boundary of disease and non - disease; (2) psychiatric conditions are systemic; and (3) psychiatric conditions occur as the results of host- environmental interactions. In the second half of the talk, a short discussion was made on how such biological principles can be applied to clinical psychiatry as effective translation. The significance of acknowledging advantages and limitations of biological science in clinical psychiatry was also emphasized.
