Titled “Behavioural addictions- a fad or fact”, the symposium, conceptualised by Prosenjit Ghosh, was presented by Simanta Talukdar and Shyamanta Das, the Editor-in-Chief of the Open Journal of Psychiatry & Allied Sciences (OJPAS®) in the 19th Annual Conference of Indian Association of Private Psychiatry (ANCIAPP 2018) at Taj Krishna, Hyderabad.