Timeline of psychiatry
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This is a timeline of psychiatry.
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Big picture
| 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. "[1] Research and teaching in psychiatry are dominated by the Germans for 100 years, until 1933.[2] |
| 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.[1] |
| 21st century | Pharmaceutical innovation dries up in the 2000s, with no new classes of medication or blockbuster psychiatric drugs being discovered.[1] |
Full timeline
| Year | Event type | Details | Location |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1816 | Johann Reil coins the word "psychiatry".[2] | ||
| 1952 | Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders | ||
| 1987 | Prozac is released.[1] | ||
| 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."[1] | United States |
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References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 "A brief history of psychiatry". stevenreidbordmd.com. Retrieved 4 September 2018.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 "A History of Psychiatry: From the Era of the Asylum to the Age of Prozac". ps.psychiatryonline.org. Retrieved 4 September 2018.
