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Psychiatry is the medical specialty devoted to the diagnosis, prevention, and treatment of deleterious mental conditions. [1] [2] These include various matters related to mood, behaviour, cognition, perceptions, and emotions. Initial psychiatric assessment of a person begins with creating a case history and conducting a mental status examination.
Berlin: Georg Reimer [A chronology of events in the history of psychiatry until 1893]. Simon, Bennett (1980). Mind and Madness in Ancient Greece : The Classical Roots of Modern Psychiatry. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press. ISBN 9780801408595. Thomas S. Szasz (1977).
During the early modern period, mentally ill people were often held captive in cages or kept up within the city walls, or they were compelled to amuse members of courtly society. [ 14 ] From the 13th century onwards, sick and poor people were kept in newly founded ecclesiastical hospitals, such as the "Spittal sente Jorgen" erected in 1212 in ...
Emil Wilhelm Georg Magnus Kraepelin (/ ˈ k r ɛ p əl ɪ n /; German: [ˈeːmiːl 'kʁɛːpəliːn]; 15 February 1856 – 7 October 1926) was a German psychiatrist. H. J. Eysenck's Encyclopedia of Psychology identifies him as the founder of modern scientific psychiatry, psychopharmacology and psychiatric genetics.
Philippe Pinel (French:; 20 April 1745 – 25 October 1826) was a French physician, precursor of psychiatry and incidentally a zoologist. He was instrumental in the development of a more humane psychological approach to the custody and care of psychiatric patients, referred to today as moral therapy. He worked for the abolition of the shackling ...
Anti-psychiatry, sometimes spelled antipsychiatry, is a movement based on the view that psychiatric treatment can be often more damaging than helpful to patients. [1] [2] The term anti-psychiatry was coined in 1912, and the movement emerged in the 1960s, highlighting controversies about psychiatry. [3]
However, some experts attribute the population’s worsening mental health to insufficient modern psychiatry. #13. Image credits: thehappinessprojectuk #14. Image credits: thehappinessprojectuk #15.
Mad in America is a webzine dedicated to critical perspectives on modern psychiatry. [1] It was founded in 2012 by Robert Whitaker, who also publishes the site. Whitaker founded the Mad in America website in response to the positive reactions to his books Mad in America and Anatomy of an Epidemic. [2] Its mission statement originally stated,