List of famous figures in psychiatry
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 |
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 |
Irving 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 |
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