Simanta Talukdar and Shyamanta Das, Editor-in-Chief of the Open Journal of Psychiatry & Allied Sciences (OJPAS®) presented a symposium, titled “Transiliences in psychiatry: past, passing, and to come”, chaired by SC Malik and Arabinda Brahma in the 18th Annual National Conference of Indian Association of Private Psychiatry (ANCIAPP 2017) at Hotel Crowne Plaza, Jaipur, Rajasthan, India.