Psychiatry

Psychiatry is the branch of medicine that diagnoses, treats, and studies mental illness and behavioral conditions. While all physicians will encounter patients with mental illnesses and any of them may treat it, psychiatrists specialize in these areas, being more extensively trained in the differential diagnosis (distinguishing various forms) and treatment of mental illness and are professionally required to keep up to date on the newest developments in the field of mental illness. Additionally psychologists, nurse practitioners, and social workers can provide psychiatric care though of these only the nurse practitioners may prescribe medication.

Famous figures in psychiatry

Psychiatrists

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• Alfred Adler Individual psychology
• Jack Barchas biological basis of schizophrenia
• Aaron Beck cognitive therapy
• Eugene Bleuler diagnostic criteria for schizophrenia
• John Bowlby attachment behaviour
• Ian Brockington nosological pioneer
• John Cade introduced lithium
• Ugo Cerletti electroconvulsive therapy
• Edmund Chiu Huntington's chorea
• Tim Crow biological basis of schizophrenia
• Pierre Deniker introduced chlorpromazine
• Leon Eisenberg Psychiatric anthropology
• Milton Erickson hypnosis
• Jean Etienne Esquirol descriptive psychopathology and postnatal depression
• Frantz Fanon effect of discrimination on an individual
• Daniel X Freedman
• Christopher Paul Lindsay Freeman electroconvulsive therapy
• Sigmund Freud introduced psychoanalysis
• William Glasser reality therapy & choice theory
• Max Hamilton introduced depression and anxiety scales
• David Healy influence of pharmaceuticals
• Karen Horney womb envy
• Ashoka Jahnavi-Prasad introduced sodium valproate as a safer alternative to lithium
• Pierre Janet intoduced the concept of dissociation
• Karl Jaspers phenomenologist
• Eve Johnstone brain changes in schizophrenia
• Maxwell Jones therapeautic community
• Carl Gustav Jung analytical psychology
• Seymour Kety pioneer in psychiatric genetics
• Eric R. Kandel molecular basis for memory
• Robert Evan Kendell diagnostic problems in psychiatry
• Antoni Kepinski
• Otto Kernberg psychoanalyst
• Arthur Klienmen psychiatric anthropologist
• Emil Kraepelin pioneer of psychiatry
• Richard von Krafft-Ebbing
• Norman Krietman psychiatric epidemiology
• R. D. Laing antipsychiatry movement
• Sir Aubrey Lewis nosological pioneer
• Alwyn Lishman neuropsychiatrist
• Peter McGuffin psychiatric geneticist
• Adolf Meyer psychobiology
• Robert Michels psychoanalysis
• Egas Moniz psychosurgery
• Henry Murray
• Sebastian Kraemer fathers & attachment in child psychiatry
• John Nemiah psychotherapist
• Ian Oswald sleep research
• Eugene Paykel life events and mental illness
• Ivan Pavlov pioneer of conditioning behavior
• Jean Piaget famous for his theory of cognitive development
• Philippe Pinel abolished all retraint in psychiatric treatment
• W. H. R. Rivers psychiatric anthropologist
• Sir Martin Roth psychiatry of old age
• Sir Michael Rutter child psychiatry
• William Sargant mind control
• Kurt Schneider diagnostic criteria
• Mogens Schou lithium therapy
• Carl Hans Heinze Sennhenn eugenicist
• Peter Sifneos psychotherapy
• Elliott Slater psychiatric epidemiologist
• Robert Spitzer diagnostic criteria
• Harry Stack Sullivan interpersonal psychiatry
• Thomas Szasz antipsychiatry movement
• Eng Seong Tan cross cultural psychiatry
• Fuller Torrey Humane treatment of schizophrenia
• Ming Tsuang psychiatric geneticist
• Ladislas von Meduna pharmacoconvulsions
• Julius Wagner-Jauregg malarial treatment of GPI
• Paul Watzlawick communication theory of mental health
• Sula Wolff children under stress

Others:

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• Kay Redfield Jamison - a psychologist who, whilst not a psychiatrist herself, is professor of psychiatry at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and a MacArthur Fellow.