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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.
Moral treatment was an approach to mental disorder based on humane psychosocial care or moral discipline that emerged in the 18th century and came to the fore for much of the 19th century, deriving partly from psychiatry or psychology and partly from religious or moral concerns.
Diana Chao shares how writing letters to strangers helped her to gain a new perspective about mental health,
A cure is a substance or procedure that resolves a medical condition. This may include a medication , a surgical operation , a lifestyle change, or even a philosophical shift that alleviates a person's ; or achieves a state of healing.
Corey M Keyes has created a two continua model of mental illness and health which holds that both are related, but distinct dimensions: one continuum indicates the presence or absence of mental health, the other the presence or absence of mental illness. [252] For example, people with optimal mental health can also have a mental illness, and ...
Psychosurgery, also called neurosurgery for mental disorder (NMD), is the neurosurgical treatment of mental disorders. [1] Psychosurgery has always been a controversial medical field. [ 1 ] The modern history of psychosurgery begins in the 1880s under the Swiss psychiatrist Gottlieb Burckhardt .
More than 230 psychiatrists and mental health professionals have signed on to an open letter declaring Donald Trump to be far too mentally unstable to be president as part of a new ad campaign ...
For people experiencing the physical and mental symptoms of an anxiety disorder, stigma and negative social perception can make an individual less likely to seek treatment. [69] Prejudice that some people with mental illness turn against themselves is called self-stigma. [68] There is no explicit evidence for the exact cause of stigma towards ...