History of psychiatry Flashcards
Event responsible for the relocation of the centre of psychiatry from Europe to the US in the 20th century
Second world war
Most important figure in phenomenological psychopathology
Karl Jaspers
Syndrome which was named after a quick change actor who played multiple parts within his shows
Fregoli syndrome
Used camphor to induce seizures to treat psychosis
Ladislas Meduna
First used insulin coma therapy
Manfred Sakel
First used sodium bromide to induce a deep sleep for deep sleep therapy to treat psychiatric patients
Neil MacLeod
Popularised the use of lithium to treat mania
John Cade
Chemist associated with the development of chlorpromazine
Paul Charpentier
Introduced MAOIs
Kline
Discovered the antidepressant effect of imipramine
Kuhn
Meaning of the word schizophrenia
Split mind
Responsible for care of inmates at the Bicêtre Hospital in Paris in 1793 and instituted more humane treatment there
Pinel
First used the term learning disability
Samuel Kirk
Neurosurgeon who was born in Virginia in 1904 and was an advocate and prolific practitioner for psychosurgery, especially lobotomy
James Watts
Associated with the biopsychosocial model
George Engel
Associated with the diathesis stress model of depression
Aaron Beck
Associated with genetic determinism
Weismann
First neurotransmitter to be identified
Acetylcholine
Type of eugenics where there is reduction of reproduction between individuals with ‘undesirable’ traits
Negative eugenics
Type of eugenics where there is increased reproduction between individuals with ‘desirable’ traits
Positive eugenics
Type of eugenics carried out in Nazi Germany which involved the forced sterilisation of those with learning disabilities
Negative eugenics
The idea that the IQ of a population falls over time as those with a higher IQ have fewer children
Dysgenics
Argued that paternalism only applies to autonomous individuals
Beauchamp
First described the concept of expressed emotion
Brown
Described the schizophrenogenic mother
Fromm-Reichmann
Psychiatric diagnostic manual that first introduced widespread operationalised criteria in mental health diagnosis
DSM III
First advocated a multi-axial formation to psychiatric diagnosis in 1947
Essen-Möller
Argued that disturbance in ‘part functions’ of the brain e.g. emotion, perception etc. was key to understanding mental illness, and was strongly against using socially deviant behaviour as a part of diagnosis
Lewis
Neurologist whose demonstration of hypnosis triggered Sigmund Freud’s interest in psychological therapy
Charcot
Developed the theory of animal magnetism
Mesmer
Founded the therapeutic community Kingsley Hall
RD Laing
First described dysmorphophobia
Morselli
Year in which dysmorphophobia was first described
1886
First developed ECT
Cerletti
Year in which ECT was first developed
1938
Year in which dementia praecox was first described
1893
Conducted work on marital therapy in 1967
Dicks
Year in which the first rank symptoms of schizophrenia were first described
1959
Discovered syphilis as a cause of mental illness
Schauddin
Described the four As of schizophrenia
Bleuler
Year in which the four As of schizophrenia were described
1911
Main discrepancy found in the US-UK diagnostic project in 1972
Threshold for diagnosis of schizophrenia was much lower in the US
First effective somatic therapy for schizophrenia and bipolar disorder
Insulin coma therapy
Developed the first effective treatment for general paresis of the insane (neurosyphilis) and received a Nobel prize in 1927
Wagner-Juaregg