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The first published clinical trial of chlorpromazine which is the first antipsychotic (invented by Henri Laborit, Jean Delay and Pierre Deniker) was conducted at Sainte-Anne Hospital Center in Paris. Known as Largactil in Europe, it was brought to Montreal by Heinz Lehman and named Thorazine.
In 1621, Oxford University mathematician, astrologer, and scholar Robert Burton published one of the earliest treatises on mental illness, The Anatomy of Melancholy, What it is: With all the Kinds, Causes, Symptomes, Prognostickes, and Several Cures of it.
Jun 23, 2024 · Half a century later, Emil Kraepelin published his landmark classification of mental disorders, the Compendium of Psychiatry, in which he isolated schizophrenia (or dementia præcox, as he...
Jun 2, 2012 · First published in 1563, De praestigiis daemonum (The Deception of Demons) argued that the madness of heretics resulted not from supernatural forces but from natural causes. The Church promptly...
Mar 25, 2022 · Western psychiatry emerged as a medical specialty caring for the mentally ill over the course of the late 18th and early 19th centuries. This emergence was a contingent process, dependent on the co...
Oct 20, 2014 · Posted October 20, 2014|Reviewed by Ekua Hagan. Psychiatry got its name as a medical specialty in the early 1800s. For the first century of its existence, the field concerned itself with...
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The history of psychiatry is the history of how doctors came to see abnormal or extreme beliefs, emotions, and behavior as a form of illness and created a medical specialty to formalize the approach to people presenting with such problems.
