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History of Psychiatry. psychiatric medication and an ECT machine, in Berlin Museum of medical history. History of psychiatry is the study of the history of and changes in psychiatry, a medical specialty which diagnoses, prevents and treats mental disorders.
Mental health. Historically, mental disorders have had three major explanations, namely, the supernatural, biological and psychological models. [ 1] For much of recorded history, deviant behavior has been considered supernatural and a reflection of the battle between good and evil. When confronted with unexplainable, irrational behavior and by ...
Lunatic asylum. Social alienation was one of the main themes in Francisco Goya 's masterpieces, such as The Madhouse (above). The lunatic asylum, insane asylum or mental asylum was an institution where people with mental illness were confined. It was an early precursor of the modern psychiatric hospital . Modern psychiatric hospitals evolved ...
History of schizophrenia. The word schizophrenia was coined by the Swiss psychiatrist Eugen Bleuler in 1908, and was intended to describe the separation of function between personality, thinking, memory, and perception. Bleuler introduced the term on 24 April 1908 in a lecture given at a psychiatric conference in Berlin and in a publication ...
Early history of psychiatry. 1550 BCE. The Ebers papyrus, one of the most important medical papyri of ancient Egypt, briefly mentioned clinical depression. [ 1] A page from the Ebers Papyrus. 6th century BCE. 600 B.C., many cities had temples to Asklepios known as an Asklepieion that provided cures for psychosomatic illnesses [ 2] 4th century BCE.
c. 50 – Aulus Cornelius Celsus died, leaving De Medicina, a medical encyclopedia; Book 3 covers mental diseases.The term insania, insanity, was first used by him. The methods of treatment included bleeding, frightening the patient, emetics, enemas, total darkness, and decoctions of poppy or henbane, and pleasant ones such as music therapy, travel, sport, reading aloud, and massage.
2013 – The Fifth Edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5) was released at the American Psychiatric Association's Annual Meeting in May 2013, marking the end of more than a decade's journey in revising the criteria for the diagnosis and classification of mental disorders. [7]
Henri Ellenberger: The Discovery of the Unconscious: The History and Evolution of Dynamic Psychiatry, Basic Books, 1981; Eva Illouz: Saving the Modern Soul: Therapy, Emotions, and the Culture of Self-Help, University of California Press 2008, ISBN 0-520-25373-6; Renato Foschi & Marco Innamorati: A Critical History of