Dr. Marianne C Kastrup is a specialist in psychiatry and the former Medical Director of the Rehabilitation and research Centre for Torture Victims, Copenhagen and has been Head of the National Competence Centre for Transcultural Psychiatry in Copenhagen. She has extensive experience in academic teaching and has been assistant professor in psychiatry, University of Copenhagen. Dr. Kastrup was for many years on the Expert Advisory Panel Mental Health, WHO and on many occasions expert advisor for European Council CPT. Currently she is the Treasurer of the World Association Social Psychiatry. In the European Psychiatric Association she has a Board member 1992-2016 and chaired the task force on refugees and migrants. In the World Psychiatric Association she has been a member of WPA Executive Committee, has chaired the Transcultural Section and chaired the Committee to Review Abuse of Psychiatry. She has more than 125 peer review articles and is author/coauthor of 24 books and more than 90 book chapters. Her research areas are traumatized refugees, transcultural psychiatry and register research.