Origin Modern psychiatry traces to the asylum reform movement of the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, associated with Philippe Pinels reforms in Paris, and was reshaped again by twentieth century psychoanalytic and biological approaches.
Psychiatry is the branch of medicine focused on the diagnosis, treatment and prevention of mental, emotional and behavioral disorders. Its modern form grew out of the late eighteenth and nineteenth century asylum reform movements associated with figures such as Philippe Pinel in France, and it was further reshaped in the twentieth century by psychoanalysis and, later, biological and pharmacological approaches. This atlas records what the historical record supports and is not medical advice.
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Origin PeriodModern psychiatry traces to the asylum reform movement of the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, associated with Philippe Pinels reforms in Paris, and was reshaped again by twentieth century psychoanalytic and biological approaches. 2 Classification
Type/Classification Psychiatry
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Eating disorder classified under psychiatric/behavioural conditions (DSM-5).
Couples therapy is a recognized psychotherapeutic modality.
Dance movement therapy is a recognized psychotherapeutic modality used within psychiatric and mental health care.
Dorothea Dix, Healers Dix campaigned from the 1840s onward for the humane treatment of people with mental illness, driving the creation or expansion of dozens of state psychiatric hospitals across the United States and Europe.
Equine assisted therapy is used as an adjunct psychotherapeutic and mental health intervention.
Gestalt therapy is a recognized psychotherapeutic modality.
Narrative therapy is a recognized psychotherapeutic modality.
Person centered therapy is a recognized psychotherapeutic modality developed within clinical psychology and psychiatry.
Play therapy is a recognized psychotherapeutic modality used in child and adolescent mental health care.
Rational emotive behavior therapy is a recognized psychotherapeutic modality, an early form of cognitive behavioral therapy.
Recreational therapy is used as an adjunct treatment within mental health and rehabilitative care.
Sex therapy is a recognized psychotherapeutic modality addressing sexual dysfunction.
Solution focused brief therapy is a recognized psychotherapeutic modality.
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Notable Specialists
Source Lucio Bini (Wikipedia)
Salpetriere under Charcot was also a landmark site in the history of psychiatry, later influencing Sigmund Freud among others, well established in general histories of medicine.
Source A History of MedicineLois N. Magner
Source Ugo Cerletti (Wikipedia)
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Sources
1. Wikipedia: Medical specialty
WikipediaClassification tableQuote, Classification table
Medical specialties that focus on the diagnosis and non-surgical treatment of disease.
2. The Greatest Benefit to Mankind: A Medical History of Humanity
Roy Porter, W. W. Norton and Company, 1997
Encyclopaedia Britannica
A History of Medicine
Lois N. Magner, CRC PressNotable Specialists: Pitie-Salpetriere Hospital
Ugo Cerletti (Wikipedia)
Lucio Bini (Wikipedia)
Frequently Asked Questions
Where did modern psychiatry grow from?
Asylum reform movements, associated with Philippe Pinel.
Modern psychiatry grew out of the late eighteenth and nineteenth century asylum reform movements associated with figures such as Philippe Pinel in France.
What reshaped psychiatry in the twentieth century?
Psychoanalysis, then biological and pharmacological approaches.
In the twentieth century psychiatry was reshaped by psychoanalysis and, later, by biological and pharmacological approaches.
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