List of figures in psychiatry

This is a list of notable figures who have been involved in the history of psychiatry. See also list of psychiatrists.

Psychiatrist Specialty
Keith AblowAdult, adolescent and forensic psychiatry
Alfred AdlerIndividual psychology
Nancy C. AndreasenSchizophrenia
David AmesDementia and mental health of older persons
Vittorino AndreoliPsychiatric anthropology
Giorgio AntonucciCriticism of the basis of psychiatry
Franco BasagliaAntipsychiatry
Jack BarchasBiological basis of schizophrenia
Aaron BeckCognitive therapy
Wilfred BionPsychoanalysis and group therapy
Eugen BleulerDiagnostic criteria for schizophrenia
John BowlbyAttachment behavior
Ian BrockingtonNosological pioneer
John CadeLithium therapy
Ugo CerlettiElectroconvulsive therapy
Eli ChesenPharmacological psychiatry
Edmund ChiuHuntington's chorea
Tim CrowBiological basis of schizophrenia
Pierre DenikerChlorpromazine
Leon EisenbergPsychiatric anthropology
Milton EricksonHypnosis
Jean Etienne EsquirolDescriptive psychopathology, postnatal depression
Frantz FanonEffects of discrimination
Viktor FranklLogotherapy and existential psychotherapy
Daniel X. FreedmanBiological psychiatry
Christopher Paul Lindsay FreemanElectroconvulsive therapy
Sigmund FreudPsychoanalysis
William GlasserReality therapy, Choice theory
Max HamiltonDepression and anxiety scales
Pyotr GannushkinClassification of personality disorders
Kevin GournaySchizophrenia, Depression and Cognitive Therapy
Karen HorneyWomb envy
Pierre JanetDissociation
Karl JaspersPhenomenology
Eve JohnstoneBrain changes in schizophrenia
Maxwell JonesTherapeutic community
Carl Gustav JungAnalytical psychology
Seymour KetyPsychiatric genetics
Eric R. KandelMolecular basis for memory
Leo KannerAutism
Jacob KasaninSchizoaffective psychosis
Otto KernbergPsychoanalysis
Arthur KleinmanPsychiatric anthropologist
Emil KraepelinPsychiatric methodology
Richard von Krafft-Ebing Sexuality
Norman KreitmanPsychiatric epidemiology
Elisabeth Kübler-RossStages of Grief
R. D. LaingAntipsychiatry
Heinz LehmannIntroduced chlorpromazine to North America
Karl LeonhardClassification of Psychosis, cycloid psychosis
Andrey Yevgenyevich LichkoAdolescent psychiatry
Aubrey LewisNosology
Alwyn LishmanNeuropsychiatry
Abraham MaslowHumanistic Psychology
Niall McLarenAntipsychiatry
Peter McGuffinPsychiatric genetics
Ladislas von MedunaPharmacoconvulsions
Adolf Meyer Psychobiology
Egas MonizPsychosurgery
Jacob MorenoPsychodrama and Group Psychotherapy
Robin MurraySchizophrenia
John NemiahPsychotherapy
Ian OswaldSleep research
Eugene PaykelSocial psychiatry
Philippe PinelPsychiatric treatment
W. H. R. RiversPsychiatric anthropologist
Martin RothPsychogeriatrics
Michael RutterChild psychiatry
Kurt SchneiderDiagnostic criteria
Mogens SchouLithium therapy
Michael ShepherdPsychiatric epidemiology
Peter SifneosPsychotherapy
Victor SkuminSkumin syndrome
Eliot SlaterPsychiatric epidemiology
Robert Spitzer Diagnostic criteria
Solomon H. SnyderNeurotransmitters
Harry Stack SullivanInterpersonal psychiatry
Hans SteinerChild Psychiatry
Thomas SzaszAntipsychiatry
Eng Seong TanCross-cultural psychiatry
Fuller TorreyTreatment of schizophrenia
Ming TsuangPsychiatric genetics
John Batty TukeNeuroscientist
Julius Wagner-JaureggTreatment of GPI
Paul WatzlawickCommunication theory of mental health
Simon WesselyChronic fatigue syndrome, military psychiatry
Donald WinnicottChild psychiatry, psychoanalysis
Sula WolffStress in children
Irvin YalomGroup and existential psychotherapy
Sam ZandCorporate psychiatry
Susan GauChild and adolescent psychiatry
Other researchers (not trained as psychiatrists)Specialty
Michel FoucaultPhilosophy
Anna FreudChild analysis
Erving GoffmanSocial psychology
Kay Redfield Jamison   Bipolar affective disorder
Melanie KleinChild psychology, psychoanalysis
Ali ibn Abbas al-MajusiMental disorders
Theodore MillonClinical psychology
Ivan PavlovBehavioral psychology
Jean PiagetCognitive development
Carl RogersPerson-centred psychotherapy
Joseph WolpeBehavior therapy

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