List of figures in psychiatry
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This is a list of notable figures who have been involved in the history of psychiatry.Also see list of psychiatrists.
| Psychiatrists | Speciality |
|---|---|
| Alfred Adler | Individual psychology |
| Franco Basaglia | Antipsychiatry |
| 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 | Lithium therapy |
| Ugo Cerletti | Electroconvulsive therapy |
| Edmund Chiu | Huntington's chorea |
| Tim Crow | Biological basis of schizophrenia |
| Pierre Deniker | Chlorpromazine |
| Leon Eisenberg | Psychiatric anthropology |
| Milton Erickson | Hypnosis |
| Jean Etienne Esquirol | Descriptive psychopathology, postnatal depression |
| Frantz Fanon | Effects of discrimination |
| Daniel X Freedman | Biological psychiatry |
| Christopher Paul Lindsay Freeman | Electroconvulsive therapy |
| Sigmund Freud | Psychoanalysis |
| William Glasser | Reality therapy, Choice theory |
| Max Hamilton | Depression and anxiety scales |
| Karen Horney | Womb envy |
| Ashoka Jahnavi-Prasad | Sodium valproate |
| Pierre Janet | Dissociation |
| Karl Jaspers | Phenomenology |
| Eve Johnstone | Brain changes in schizophrenia |
| Maxwell Jones | Therapeautic community |
| Carl Gustav Jung | Analytical psychology |
| Seymour Kety | Psychiatric genetics |
| Eric R. Kandel | Molecular basis for memory |
| Antoni Kępiński | Axiological psychiatry |
| Otto Kernberg | Psychoanalysis |
| Arthur Kleinman | Psychiatric anthropologist |
| Emil Kraepelin | Psychiatric methodology |
| Richard von Krafft-Ebbing | Sexuality |
| Norman Krietman | Psychiatric epidemiology |
| Elisabeth Kübler-Ross | Stages of Grief |
| R. D. Laing | Antipsychiatry |
| Karl Leonhard | Classification of Psychosis,cycloid psychosis |
| Sir Aubrey Lewis | Nosology |
| Alwyn Lishman | Neuropsychiatry |
| Manuel Isaias Lopez | Bioethics |
| Phil McGraw | Television psychologist |
| Peter McGuffin | Psychiatric genetics |
| Adolf Meyer | Psychobiology |
| Robert Michels | Psychoanalysis |
| Egas Moniz | Psychosurgery |
| Robin Murray | Schizophrenia |
| John Nemiah | Psychotherapy |
| Ian Oswald | Sleep research |
| Eugene Paykel | Social psychiatry |
| Eric Pfeiffer | Gerentology, Alzheimer's disease |
| Philippe Pinel | Psychiatric treatment |
| W. H. R. Rivers | Psychiatric anthropologist |
| Martin Roth | Psychogeriatrics |
| Michael Rutter | Child psychiatry |
| William Sargant | Mind control |
| Kurt Schneider | Diagnostic criteria |
| Mogens Schou | Lithium therapy |
| Peter Sifneos | Psychotherapy |
| Elliott Slater | Psychiatric epidemiology |
| Robert Spitzer | Diagnostic criteria |
| Solomon H.Snyder | Neurotransmitters |
| Harry Stack Sullivan | Interpersonal psychiatry |
| Thomas Szasz | Antipsychiatry |
| Eng Seong Tan | Cross-cultural psychiatry |
| Fuller Torrey | Treatment of schizophrenia |
| Ming Tsuang | Psychiatric genetics |
| Ladislas von Meduna | Pharmacoconvulsions |
| Julius Wagner-Jauregg | Treatment of GPI |
| Paul Watzlawick | Communication theory of mental health |
| Simon Wessely | Epidemiology, general hospital and combat psychiatry |
| Sula Wolff | Stress in children |
| Irvin Yalom | Group psychotherapy |
| Other researchers | Speciality |
|---|---|
| Michel Foucault | Philosopher |
| Anna Freud | Child analysis |
| Erving Goffman | Social psychology |
| Kay Redfield Jamison | Bipolar affective disorder |
| Ivan Pavlov | Behavioral psychology |
| Jean Piaget | Cognitive development |
| Carl Rogers | Person-centred psychotherapy |
| Joseph Wolpe | Behavior therapy |
See also
Medicine > Psychiatry | ||
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