Psychiatry - History
Research News and Information

Saturday, November 21, 2009

[Between Griesinger and Kraepelin--Ludwig Meyer (1827-1900): anatomist and reform psychiatrist]

7 Sep 2009 Ludwig Meyer worked as resident psychiatrist, scientist and university teacher in Berlin, Schwetz, Hamburg and for the longest time in Göttingen. He promoted social psychiatry, i. e. extramural treatment, "Milieutherapie" within the institution and ... Read more...

From alienism to the birth of modern psychiatry: a neurological story?

17 Aug 2009 The interactions between developing neurology and psychiatry in Paris are of interest, in a city which was the main center for studies on the nervous system and its disorders during the nineteenth century. Contrary to a common view, and in spite of ... Read more...

[Disciplinary differentiation under socialist conditions--the establishment of neurology at the University of Rostock in East Germany]

12 Aug 2009 The move towards disciplinary independence in Germany turned out to be more troublesome than in France or Great Britain and real institutional independence was not established at German universities until the 1970s of the 20th century, and this in ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Psychiatry - History'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Strömgren remembered. 30 Oct 2009
• Nada Logan Stotland, M.D., 135th President, 2008-2009. 29 Sep 2009
• [Remembering Béla Mária (1903-1975)] 28 Sep 2009
• [Between Griesinger and Kraepelin--Ludwig Meyer (1827-1900): anatomist and reform psychiatrist] 7 Sep 2009
• From alienism to the birth of modern psychiatry: a neurological story? 17 Aug 2009
• [Disciplinary differentiation under socialist conditions--the establishment of neurology at the University of Rostock in East Germany] 12 Aug 2009
• Charles Brenner, M.D. 30 Jul 2009
• Soaring on the wings of the wind: Freud, Jews and Judaism. 30 Jul 2009
• The three kings: Harry Benjamin, John Money, Robert Stoller. 30 Jul 2009
• Brief history of the term 'derailment'. 29 Jun 2009
• [Relationship between secular, medical and nursing knowledge in the time of Jean-Baptiste Pussin] 29 Jun 2009
• [A nestor with a world record in compulsive syndrome studies] 29 Jun 2009
• Medicine and the arts. Ethics [excerpt] by Dietrich Bonhoeffer. Commentary. 29 Jun 2009
• The abolition of capital punishment: contributions from two nineteenth-century Italian psychiatrists. 30 May 2009
• Emergency compulsory admissions in the Netherlands: fluctuating patterns in Rotterdam, 1929-2005. 30 May 2009
• Encountering hysteria: doctors' and patients' perspectives on hysteria in Denmark, 1875-1918. 30 May 2009
• Creating order. A quantitative analysis of psychiatric practice at the Swiss mental institutions of Burghölzli and Rheinau between 1870 and 1970. 30 May 2009
• Strange, incredible and impossible things: the early anthropology of Reginald Scot. 30 May 2009
• The historical development of psychiatry in Serbia. 30 May 2009
• Reflections on 40 years of involvement in 'community and politics' in psychiatry. 30 May 2009

See a longer list of these articles.

Technical information about 'Psychiatry'

Definition: The medical science that deals with the origin, diagnosis, prevention, and treatment of mental disorders.

Descriptor UI: D011570

Alternative terms: Psychiatry; Psychiatrists; Psychiatrist;

Allowable Qualifiers: classification; economics; education; history; instrumentation; legislation & jurisprudence; manpower; methods; organization & administration; standards; trends; statistics & numerical data; ethics;

Tree Number: F04.096.544; H02.403.776.655;

Technical Notes: specialty only; do not confuse with MENTAL DISORDERS