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| <18 century || Until the 18th century, mental illness is most often seen as demonic possession. However, it gradually comes to be considered as a sickness requiring treatment. Many judge that modern psychiatry is born with the efforts of French physician {{w|Philippe Pinel}} in the late century.<ref name="Psychiatry">{{cite web |title=Psychiatry |url=https://www.britannica.com/science/psychiatry |website=britannica.com |accessdate=5 September 2018}}</ref> | | <18 century || Until the 18th century, mental illness is most often seen as demonic possession. However, it gradually comes to be considered as a sickness requiring treatment. Many judge that modern psychiatry is born with the efforts of French physician {{w|Philippe Pinel}} in the late century.<ref name="Psychiatry">{{cite web |title=Psychiatry |url=https://www.britannica.com/science/psychiatry |website=britannica.com |accessdate=5 September 2018}}</ref> | ||
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| − | | 19th century || | + | | 19th century || Psychiatry gets its name as a medical specialty in the early 1800s. For the first century of its existence, the field concerns itself with severely disordered individuals confined to asylums or hospitals. These patients are generally psychotic, severely depressed or manic, or suffer conditions we would now recognize as medical: dementia, brain tumors, seizures, hypothyroidism, etc.<ref name="A brief history of psychiatry"/> Research and teaching in psychiatry are dominated by the Germans for 100 years, until 1933.<ref name="A History of Psychiatry: From the Era of the Asylum to the Age of Prozac"/> Great contributions to the field occur in the late 19th century, when German psychiatrist Emil Kraepelin emphasizes a systematic approach to psychiatric diagnosis and classification and Austrian psychoanalyst {{w|Sigmund Freud}}, who is familiar with neuropathology, developes psychoanalysis as a treatment and research approach.<ref name="Psychiatry"/> |
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| 20th century || Around the turn of the century, {{w|Sigmund Freud}} publishes theories on the unconscious roots of some of these less severe disorders, which he terms psycho-neuroses. {{w|Psychoanalysis}} is the dominant paradigm in outpatient psychiatry for the first half of the century. By the late 1950s and early 1960s, new medications begin to change the face of psychiatry.<ref name="A brief history of psychiatry"/> | | 20th century || Around the turn of the century, {{w|Sigmund Freud}} publishes theories on the unconscious roots of some of these less severe disorders, which he terms psycho-neuroses. {{w|Psychoanalysis}} is the dominant paradigm in outpatient psychiatry for the first half of the century. By the late 1950s and early 1960s, new medications begin to change the face of psychiatry.<ref name="A brief history of psychiatry"/> | ||
Revision as of 16:32, 4 September 2018
This is a timeline of psychiatry.
Contents
Big picture
| Time period | Development summary |
|---|---|
| <18 century | Until the 18th century, mental illness is most often seen as demonic possession. However, it gradually comes to be considered as a sickness requiring treatment. Many judge that modern psychiatry is born with the efforts of French physician Philippe Pinel in the late century.[1] |
| 19th century | Psychiatry gets its name as a medical specialty in the early 1800s. For the first century of its existence, the field concerns itself with severely disordered individuals confined to asylums or hospitals. These patients are generally psychotic, severely depressed or manic, or suffer conditions we would now recognize as medical: dementia, brain tumors, seizures, hypothyroidism, etc.[2] Research and teaching in psychiatry are dominated by the Germans for 100 years, until 1933.[3] Great contributions to the field occur in the late 19th century, when German psychiatrist Emil Kraepelin emphasizes a systematic approach to psychiatric diagnosis and classification and Austrian psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud, who is familiar with neuropathology, developes psychoanalysis as a treatment and research approach.[1] |
| 20th century | Around the turn of the century, Sigmund Freud publishes theories on the unconscious roots of some of these less severe disorders, which he terms psycho-neuroses. Psychoanalysis is the dominant paradigm in outpatient psychiatry for the first half of the century. By the late 1950s and early 1960s, new medications begin to change the face of psychiatry.[2] |
| 21st century | Pharmaceutical innovation dries up in the 2000s, with no new classes of medication or blockbuster psychiatric drugs being discovered.[2] |
Full timeline
| Year | Event type | Details | Location |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1816 | Johann Reil coins the word "psychiatry".[3] | ||
| 1952 | Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders | ||
| 1987 | Prozac is released.[2] | ||
| 1990s | The U.S. National Institute of Mental Health declares the 1990s the Decade of the Brain "to enhance public awareness of the benefits to be derived from brain research."[2] | United States |
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See also
External links
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Psychiatry". britannica.com. Retrieved 5 September 2018.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 "A brief history of psychiatry". stevenreidbordmd.com. Retrieved 4 September 2018.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 "A History of Psychiatry: From the Era of the Asylum to the Age of Prozac". ps.psychiatryonline.org. Retrieved 4 September 2018.
