Father of psychiatry

This transcript has been edited for clarity. Drew Ramsey, MD: Hello, everyone. I'm Dr Drew Ramsey from Medscape Psychiatry and Columbia Psychiatry, here at the John M. Oldham, MD, MS: This was a group effort and a wonderful opportunity to celebrate the 175th anniversary of the APA. Ramsey: Let's hop into the timeline. We wanted to focus on three or four of the most important points in the history, according to Dr Oldham. Let's get started. Benjamin Rush: 'Father of American Psychiatry' Ramsey: The first stop on our timeline is, of course, Dr Benjamin Rush. Who is Benjamin Rush? Oldham: Benjamin Rush was a major, major figure in the history of psychiatry and usually is referred to as the "Father of American Psychiatry." He is widely recognized for his work. On the wall is the first real textbook of psychiatry, called Medical Inquiries and Observations, Upon Diseases of the Mind. It was the standard textbook in psychiatry for decades. Ramsey: The first textbook [was published] in 1812. Oldham: Rush was revered. One of his mentors was Benjamin Franklin. He had many contacts. Ramsey: He was known as the "American Hippocrates." He was a huge figure in American medicine. I believe he had a son who had what they called a breakdown and then eventually died by suicide. Oldham: That turned his interest onto the field of mental health and mental illness. He was widely regarded as a very revered expert and compassionate physician who really moved away from the early pre-colonial myths...

Table of Contents • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • Dr. Benjamin Rush, the “father of American psychiatry,” was the first to believe that mental illness is a disease of the mind and not a “possession of demons.” His classic work, Observations and Inquiries upon the Diseases of the Mind, published in 1812, was the first psychiatric textbook printed in the United States. Who discovered mental health? The Realization of an Idea. The term mental hygiene has a long history in the United States, having first been used by William Sweetzer in 1843. Who is the father of mental? Remembering the father of modern psychiatry who unchained mental patients: 8 facts about Philippe Pinel– Education Today News. Who defined mental health? The World Health Organization (WHO) conceptualizes mental health as a “state of well-being in which the individual realizes his or her own abilities, can cope with the normal stresses of life, can work productively and fruitfully, and is able to make a contribution to his or her community”. Recent post: Are Nurses Paid Well? Who is the modern father of psychiatry? Philippe Pinel’s“release from chains” of 1793 and the beginning of the “science of psychiatry”] When was mental health founded? In 1946, Harry Truman passed the National Mental Health Act, which created the National Institute of Mental Health and allocated government funds towards research into the causes of and treatments for mental illness. What was the first mental illness? China. The ear...

Last update:19 July, 2021 Philippe Pinel is the “father of French psychiatry”. His major contribution to psychiatry was to depict the mentally ill as humans. He also proposed a novel categorization for mental illnesses, which lay the foundations for modern categorizations. Pinel’s pragmatism and discipline were enough to focus on the mentally ill and prepare systematic notes. Consequently, these guided him towards clinical treatment and the classification of “I can’t here avoid giving my most decided sufferage in favour of the moral qualities of maniacs. I have no where met, excepting in romances, with fonder husbands, more affectionate parents, more impassioned . . . than in the lunatic asylum, during their intervals of calmness and reason.” -Philippe Pinel- As a result of his work, mental institutions stopped the cruel treatment of mentally ill patients in France. He also presented several hypothesis on the cause of mental issues and highlighted the importance of A rough start for Philippe Pinel Philippe Pinel was born in Jonquières, France, on April 25, 1745. He was the son of a physician who studied Medicine at Toulouse. He earned his degree in Medicine in 1773. Soon after, he went to Montpellier and familiarized himself with the ideas of Boissier de Sauvages and Barthez. It wasn’t an easy start into medicine. To support himself, he wrote thesis dissertations for rich or lazy students. None of those dissertations explained anything new. In 1778, once he moved to Paris,...

• • • • The stupefying numbness overtook my mind as I watched the Russell Williams videotapes. The five or six hours in the Ontario Provincial Police headquarters in Orillia blurred, abbreviated in time. At the end of the session, I left the headquarters, walked to my car, with my mind full of the video images I had just endured. I left to drive back to Ottawa. About 30 minutes later, an emotional storm took over where I was crying uncontrollably, shaking, and felt weak and confused. Suddenly I believed my whole life’s work was a failure. I felt I had wasted my life; I felt useless; lost. I pulled over to gain composure (I’m not sure exactly how long), and the ‘emotional storm’ subsided. I continued my journey believing that my work in researching and treating sexual deviation was a failure and there was no hope for any recovery. I did not realize it, but this was the first step of a painful journey of posttraumatic stress disorder. This changed my life forever (Bradford J, personal communication, December 18, 2021). ⇓ The above statement is how Dr. John Bradford described how he felt on a hot summer day in 2010. The defense had retained Dr. Bradford in a case that had shocked the whole nation and raised questions about the Canadian military. Colonel Russell Williams was described as a model officer, a top-level pilot who was entrusted with flying international dignitaries, including Queen Elizabeth. He was well educated and well respected, but at the age of 44, he embarke...

Dr. Philippe Pinel at the Salpêtrière, 1795 by Tony Robert-Fleury. Pinel ordering the removal of chains from patients at the Paris Asylum for insane women On April 20, 1745, French physician Philippe Pinel was born. He was instrumental in the development of a more humane psychological approach to the custody and care of psychiatric patients, referred to today as moral therapy. He also made notable contributions to the classification of mental disorders and has been described by some as “the father of modern psychiatry“. “I cannot here avoid giving my most decided sufferage in favour of the moral qualities of maniacs. I have no where met, excepting in romances, with fonder husbands, more affectionate parents, more impassioned . . . than in the lunatic asylum, during their intervals of calmness and reason.” – Philippe Pinel Philippe Pinel – Early Years Philippe Pinel was was born in Jonquières, the South of France, in the modern department of Tarn, the son of the country doctor and surgeon Philippe Francois Pinel. Philippe Pinel Pinel first came to medicine through theology and philosophy at the age of 30. He received a diploma for a mathematical-statistical thesis. He received his doctorate from the Faculty of Philosophy in 1772 and from the Faculty of Medicine in 1773 and then studied for four more years at the Faculty of Medicine of Montpellier. Among his academic teachers there were Paul Joseph Barthez and Gabriel-François Venel. In 1778, Pinel moved to Paris. Unfortunat...

Last update:19 August, 2019 The name Emil Kraepelin is one of the most important in the history of medicine. He’s basically the father of modern psychiatry, psychiatric genetics, and psychopharmacology. He was also the main figure in promoting the Emil Kraepelin developed his theories at the beginning of the 20th century, but they’re all still important in psychiatric practice even today. At the same time, his ideas have also been criticized for being “too scientific.” In the end, it’s unthinkable not to at least be familiar with his ideas as a psychiatrist. “ Is psychiatry a medical enterprise concerned with treating diseases, or a humanistic enterprise concerned with helping persons with their personal problems? Psychiatry could be one or the other, but it cannot–despite the pretensions and protestations of psychiatrists–be both.” -Thomas Szasz- Emil Kraepelin was firmly against The life of Emil Kraepelin Kraepelin was born on February 15th, 1865 in Germany. He studied medicine in various places, though mainly at Leipzig University. He was always very interested in the human mind, from the moment he began. That led him to take a course in experimental psychology with Wilhelm Wundt, the creator of the field. Then, he became a psychiatric assistant. He graduated in 1874 with a thesis titled “The Influence of Acute Illness in the Causation of Mental Disorders.” Later on, he studied neuropathology and began to In 1922, he became the chair of the German Institute for Psychiat...

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