Timeline of psychiatry

From Timelines
Revision as of 13:04, 5 September 2018 by Sebastian (talk | contribs)
Jump to: navigation, search

This is a timeline of psychiatry.

Big picture

Time period Development summary
Ancient history Specialty in psychiatry can be traced in Ancient India, with the oldest texts on psychiatry including the ayurvedic text, Charaka Samhita.[1][2] Some of the first hospitals for curing mental illness are established during the 3rd century BCE.[3]
<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.[4]
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.[5] Research and teaching in psychiatry are dominated by the Germans for 100 years, until 1933.[6] 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.[4]
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.[5]
21st century Pharmaceutical innovation dries up in the 2000s, with no new classes of medication or blockbuster psychiatric drugs being discovered.[5]

Full timeline

Year Event type Details Location
1656 Organization (hospital) "King Louis XIV of France founded Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital in Paris for prostitutes and the mentally defective." France
1672 "English physician Thomas Willis published the anatomical treatise De Anima Brutorum, describing psychology in terms of brain function." Unied Kingdom
1724 "After being plagued with guilt over the Salem Witch Trials, influential New England Puritan minister Cotton Mather broke with superstition by advancing physical explanations for mental illnesses over demonic explanations" United States
1758 "English physician William Battie published Treatise on Madness, calling for treatments to be utilized on rich and poor mental patients alike in asylums, helping make psychiatry a respectable profession." United Kingdom
1793 "French physician Philippe Pinel was appointed to Bicêtre Hospital in south Paris, ordering chains removed from mental patients, and founding Moral Treatment." France
1808 – 1816 Field development German physician Johann Christian Reil coins the term psychiatry.[7][8][9][6] Germany
1809 Field development Philippe Pinel publishes the first description of dementia praecox (schizophrenia).
1812 Book American physician Benjamin Rush publishes Medical Inquiries and Observations Upon Diseases of the Mind, which would become very influencial in the field of psychiatry for the next 70 years.[10][11] United States
1821 "The element lithium was first isolated from lithium oxide and described by English chemist William Thomas Brande."
1841 Organization (hospital) "What became the Royal College of Psychiatrists, then known as the Association of Medical Officers of Asylums and Hospitals for the Insane, was founded in England, receiving a royal charter in 1926." United Kingdom
1844 "The Association of Medical Superintendents of American Institutions for the Insane (AMSAII), the forerunner of the American Psychiatric Association (APA), was founded in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania." United States
1845 "The Lunacy Act 1845 and the County Asylums Act 1845 were passed in England and Wales, leading to the setting up of the Lunacy Commission." United Kingdom
1851 "Dr. Samuel Cartwright, a prominent Louisiana physician and one of the leading authorities in his time on the medical care of Negroes, identified two mental disorders peculiar to slaves: Drapetomia, or the disease causing Negroes to run away; Dysaethesia Aethiopica which proposed a theory for the cause of laziness among slaves. Today, both are considered examples of scientific racism." United States
1852 Book French physician Bénédict Augustin Morel publishes Traite des Maladies Mentales, which introduces the term "dementia praecox".[12][13] France
1852 French physician Charles Lasègue first describes paranoid dementia as "delusion of persecution".[12] France
1857 Book Bénédict Augustin Morel publishes Traité des Dégénérescences, which is considered a foundational text of the degeneration theory.[14][15][16] France
1859 Josef Breuer publishes Traite Clinique et Therapeutique de L'Hysterie.
1893 "German psychiatrist Emil Kraepelin clinically defined "dementia praecox", later reformulated as schizophrenia."
1895 Book "Sigmund Freud and Josef Breuer of Austria published Studies on Hysteria, based on the case of Bertha Pappenheim "
1900 Russian neurologist Vladimir Bekhterev discovers the involvement of the hippocampus in memory.[17][18][19] Russia
1901 Field development German psychiatrist Alois Alzheimer identifies the first case of what would later become known as Alzheimer's disease.[20][21][22] Germany
1901 "Sigmund Freud published The Psychopathology of Everyday Life."
1905 Field development "French psychologists Alfred Binet and Theodore Simon created the Binet-Simon Scale to assess intellectual ability, marking the start of standardized psychological testing."
1906 "Russian physiologist Ivan Pavlov published the first Conditioning studies." Russia
1908 Swiss psychiatrist Eugen Bleuler introduces the term Schizophrenia.[12]
1910 "Sigmund Freud founded the International Psychoanalytical Association (IPA), with Carl Jung as the first president, and Otto Rank as the first secretary."
1911 "The American Psychoanalytic Association (APsaA) was founded." United States
1913 Organization The British Psychoanalytical Society is founded by Ernest Jones. United Kingdom
1913 "Jacob L. Moreno pioneered Group Psychotherapy methods in Vienna, which emphasized spontaneity and interaction; they later became known as Psychodrama and Sociometry." Austria
1914 "Sigmund Freud published On Narcissism: An Introduction."
1917 "Sigmund Freud published Introduction to Psychoanalysis, and Mourning and Melancholia"
1920 Field development Swiss psychiatrist Hermann Rorschach develops the Rorschach Inkblot Test.[23]
1921 Book Sigmund Freud publishes Group Psychology and the Analysis of the Ego.
1923 "German pharmacologist Otto Loewi and English neuroscientist Sir Henry Dale discovered Acetylcholine, the first neurotransmitter to be described, winning them the 1936 Nobel Prize."
1924 "German neuropsychiatrist Hans Berger discovered human Electroencephalography."
1924 Book "Otto Rank published The Trauma of Birth, coining the term "pre-Oedipal", causing Freud to break with him."
1926 "The Société Psychanalytique de Paris was founded with the endorsement of Sigmund Freud; the Nazis closed it in 1940."
1927 Austrian psychiatrist Manfred Sakel develops Insulin Shock Therapy as a treatment for psychosis.
1928 Indian Association for Mental Hygiene established.
1938 Italian neurologist Ugo Cerletti and Italian psychiatrist Dr. Lucio Bini discover Electroconvulsive Therapy. Italy
1942 Swiss psychiatrist Ludwig Binswanger founds Existential Therapy.
1944 Drug Ritalin (Methylphenidate) is synthesized.
1947 Organization The Indian Psychiatric Society is established. India
1948 "Lithium carbonate's ability to stabilize mood highs and lows in bipolar mood disorder (manic depression) was demonstrated by Australian psychiatrist John Cade, becoming the first effective medicine for the treatment of mental illness."
1949 Portuguese neurologist Antonio Moniz is awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his work on Lobotomy.
1950s American psychologist Albert Ellis develops Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy (REBT).[24]
1950 Organization The World Psychiatric Association is founded.
1952 The American Psychiatric Association publishes the first Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders United States
1952 Drug The first monoamine oxidase inhibitor (MAOI) antidepressant iproniazid is discovered.
1953 "Nathaniel Kleitman of the U. of Chicago discovered Rapid eye movement sleep (REM), founding modern sleep research." United States
1954 James Olds and Peter Milner of McGill University discover the brain reward system. Canada
1954 Roger Sperry of Caltech begins split-brain research. United States
1954 Organization All India Institute of Mental Health is founded. India
1956 "Gregory Bateson, John Weakland, Donald deAvila Jackson, and {{|Jay Haley}} propose the double bind theory of schizophrenia, which regards it as stemming from situations where a person receives different or contradictory messages."
1957 Arvid Carlsson demonstrates that dopamine is a neurotransmitter in the brain.
1957 The first tricyclic antidepressant (TCA), imipramine is discovered.
1958 "Aaron B. Lerner et al. of Yale University isolated the hormone melatonin, which was found to regulate the circadian rhythm."
1960s Aaron T. Beck develops cognitive therapy.[25][24]
1960 Drug The first benzodiazepine, chlordiazepoxide, under the trade name Librium is introduced.
1987 Prozac is released.[5]
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."[5] United States

Meta information on the timeline

How the timeline was built

The initial version of the timeline was written by FIXME.

Funding information for this timeline is available.

Feedback and comments

Feedback for the timeline can be provided at the following places:

  • FIXME

What the timeline is still missing

Timeline update strategy

See also

External links

References

  1. ↑ Andrew Scull. Cultural Sociology of Mental Illness: An A-to-Z Guide, Volume 1. Sage Publications. p. 386. 
  2. ↑ David Levinson; Laura Gaccione (1997). Health and Illness: A Cross-cultural Encyclopedia. ABC-CLIO. p. 42. 
  3. ↑ Koenig, Harold G. (2009). Faith and Mental Health: Religious Resources for Healing. Templeton Foundation Press. p. 36. ISBN 978-1-59947-078-8. 
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 "Psychiatry". britannica.com. Retrieved 5 September 2018. 
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 5.4 "A brief history of psychiatry". stevenreidbordmd.com. Retrieved 4 September 2018. 
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 "A History of Psychiatry: From the Era of the Asylum to the Age of Prozac". ps.psychiatryonline.org. Retrieved 4 September 2018. 
  7. ↑ "A History of Psychiatry: From the Era of the Asylum to the Age of Prozac". gun-violence.psychiatryonline.org. Retrieved 5 September 2018. 
  8. ↑ "From Madness to Mental Illness: History of Psychiatry 101". hystera.com. Retrieved 5 September 2018. 
  9. ↑ "Psychoanalysis". creativechess.wordpress.com. Retrieved 5 September 2018. 
  10. ↑ Neukrug, Edward S. The World of the Counselor: An Introduction to the Counseling Profession. 
  11. ↑ Encyclopedia of Special Education, Volume 4: A Reference for the Education of Children, Adolescents, and Adults Disabilities and Other Exceptional Individuals (Cecil R. Reynolds, Kimberly J. Vannest, Elaine Fletcher-Janzen ed.). 
  12. ↑ 12.0 12.1 12.2 Literary Medicine: Brain Disease and Doctors in Novels, Theater, and Film (J. Bogousslavsky, S. Dieguez ed.). 
  13. ↑ Noll, Richard. The Encyclopedia of Schizophrenia and Other Psychotic Disorders. 
  14. ↑ Foerster, Maxime. The Politics of Love: Queer Heterosexuality in Nineteenth-Century French Literature. 
  15. ↑ Heredity and Infection: The History of Disease Transmission (Jean-Paul Gaudilliére, Ilana Löwy ed.). 
  16. ↑ Schuster, Jean‐Pierre; Le Strat, Yann; Krichevski, Violetta; Bardikoff, Nicole; Limosin, Frédéric. "Benedict Augustin Morel (1809–1873)". 
  17. ↑ Packer, Sharon. Neuroscience in Science Fiction Films. 
  18. ↑ Aggleton, John P. "Looking beyond the hippocampus: old and new neurological targets for understanding memory disorders". PMC 4046414Freely accessible. PMID 24850926. 
  19. ↑ "Vladimir Bekhterev, Soviet physiologist". sciencephoto.com. Retrieved 5 September 2018. 
  20. ↑ Pharmacological Mechanisms in Alzheimer's Therapeutics (A. Claudio Cuello ed.). 
  21. ↑ Akbar, Celestina. Alzheimer's Disease: a Growing Health Care Issue Among the Elderly. 
  22. ↑ "Alois Alzheimer Biography". biography.com. Retrieved 5 September 2018. 
  23. ↑ Fernandez-Ballesteros, Rocio. Encyclopedia of Psychological Assessment. 
  24. ↑ 24.0 24.1 "Cognitive Behavioral Therapy". simplypsychology.org. Retrieved 5 September 2018. 
  25. ↑ "HISTORY OF COGNITIVE BEHAVIOR THERAPY". beckinstitute.org. Retrieved 5 September 2018. 
Retrieved from "http://timelines.issarice.com/index.php?title=Timeline_of_psychiatry&oldid=25151"