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In 1893, Isaac Ray, a founder of the American Psychiatric Association, provided a definition of the term mental hygiene as "the art of preserving the mind against all incidents and influences calculated to deteriorate its qualities, impair its energies, or derange its movements.
The early history of mental illness happens in Europe where, in the Middle Ages, the mentally ill were granted their freedom in some places if they were shown not to be dangerous. In other places, the mentally ill were treated poorly and said to be witches.
Summary. In the period from the 1960s to the 2010s, there are six major shifts in encounters between these professionals and their patients. They are deinstitutionalisation, changes in diagnostic nomenclature, anti-psychiatry, patients’ movements, evidence-based medicine and the privileging of psychopharmacology, neurochemistry and neurobiology.
On February 19, 1909, Beers, along with philosopher William James and psychiatrist Adolf Meyer, embraced that future by creating the National Committee for Mental Hygiene, later the National Mental Health Association and what we know today as the Mental Health America.
Western civilization’s relationship with mental illness has had a complex and varied history, characterized by periods of relative scientific inertia and ostracism of those afflicted, as well as periods of great theoretical insight and progressive thinking.
Western psychiatry emerged as a medical specialty caring for the mentally ill over the course of the late 18th and early 19th centuries. This emergence was a contingent process, dependent on the co-occurrence of three historical developments that together shaped the young discipline.
By 1890, every state had built one or more publicly supported mental hospitals, which all expanded in size as the country’s population increased. By mid-20th century, the hospitals housed over 500,000 patients but began to diminish in size as new methods of treatment became available.
The National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) has a rich history of groundbreaking research. Explore key milestones, discoveries, and the impact of NIMH-funded studies on mental health.
This article will briefly explore some of the ways in which the past has been used as a means to talk about psychotherapy as a practice and as a profession, its impact on individuals and society, and the ethical debates at stake.
What were the perceived causes of mental health challenges in the last 200 years? This research traces that history to better shape mental health research.