Difference between revisions of "Timeline of psychiatry"

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This is a timeline of psychiatry.

Time period	Development summary
19th century	"Psychiatry got its name as a medical specialty in the early 1800s. For the first century of its existence, the field concerned itself with severely disordered individuals confined to asylums or hospitals. These patients were generally psychotic, severely depressed or manic, or suffered conditions we would now recognize as medical: dementia, brain tumors, seizures, hypothyroidism, etc. "
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. "

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 | 19th century || "Psychiatry got its name as a medical specialty in the early 1800s.  For the first century of its existence, the field concerned itself with severely disordered individuals confined to asylums or hospitals.  These patients were generally psychotic, severely depressed or manic, or suffered conditions we would now recognize as medical: dementia, brain tumors, seizures, hypothyroidism, etc. "
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-| 20th century || "Around the turn of the 20th century, the neurologist Sigmund Freud published theories on the unconscious roots of some of these less severe disorders, which he termed psycho-neuroses." "Psychoanalysis was the dominant paradigm in outpatient psychiatry for the first half of the 20th century. "
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