Outline of psychiatry
The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to psychiatry:
Psychiatry - medical specialty devoted to the study and treatment of mental disorders. These mental disorders include various affective, behavioural, cognitive, and perceptual abnormalities.
What ''type'' of thing is psychiatry?
- Academic discipline - field of study with academic departments, curricula and degrees; national and international societies; and specialized journals.
- Scientific field - widely recognized category of specialized expertise within science, and typically embodies its own terminology and nomenclature. Such a field will usually be represented by one or more scientific journals, where peer reviewed research is published.
- * A natural science - field that seeks to elucidate the rules that govern the natural world using empirical and scientific methods.
- ** A biological science - a branch of biology, which is concerned with the study of life and living organisms, including their structure, function, growth, origin, evolution, distribution, and taxonomy.
- *** A medical specialty - branch of medical science. After completing medical school, physicians or surgeons usually further their medical education in a specific specialty of medicine by completing a multiple year residency to become a medical specialist.
Branches of psychiatry
Subspecialties of psychiatry
- Addiction psychiatry - focuses on evaluation and treatment of individuals with alcohol, drug, or other substance-related disorders, and of individuals with dual diagnosis of substance-related and other psychiatric disorders.
- Child and adolescent psychiatry - branch of psychiatry that specialises in work with children, teenagers, and their families.
- Cross-cultural psychiatry - branch of psychiatry concerned with the cultural and ethnic context of mental disorder and psychiatric services.
- Emergency psychiatry - clinical application of psychiatry in emergency settings.
- Forensic psychiatry - interface between law and psychiatry.
- Geriatric psychiatry - branch of psychiatry dealing with the study, prevention, and treatment of mental disorders in humans with old age.
- Liaison psychiatry - branch of psychiatry that specializes in the interface between other medical specialties and psychiatry.
- Military psychiatry - covers special aspects of psychiatry and mental disorders within the military context.
- Neuropsychiatry - branch of medicine dealing with mental disorders attributable to diseases of the nervous system.
- Social psychiatry - branch of psychiatry that focuses on the interpersonal and cultural context of mental disorder and mental wellbeing.
Approaches of psychiatry
- Biological psychiatry - approach to psychiatry that aims to understand mental disorders in terms of the biological function of the nervous system.
- Community psychiatry - approach that reflects an inclusive public health perspective and is practiced in community mental health services.
- Global Mental Health - area of study, research and practice that places a priority on improving mental health and achieving equity in mental health for all people worldwide.
History of psychiatry
- History of psychiatry
General psychiatry concepts
- Glossary of psychiatry
- Mental disorder
- *Classification of mental disorders
- *History of mental disorder
- Mental Health
Psychiatric practice and standards
Doctor-patient relationship
- Therapeutic relationship
Nosological system
- Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders
- International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems
Psychiatric diagnoses
- ADHD
- Bipolar disorder
- Mania
- Schizophrenia
- * History of schizophrenia
- * Dementia praecox
Instruments
- Mental status examination
Diagnostic practices
- Rosenhan experiment
Psychiatric treatment
- Treatment of mental disorders
Chemical treatment
- Antidepressants
- Antipsychotic
- Chemical imbalance theory
- Mood stabilizers
- Psychiatric medication
- List of psychiatric medications
- List of psychiatric medications by condition treated
Physical treatment
Electroconvulsive therapy
- Electroconvulsive therapy
- * History of electroconvulsive therapy in the United Kingdom
Insulin coma therapy
- Insulin shock therapy
Psychosurgery
- Psychosurgery
- * Lobotomy
- *Lobotomy instruments
- **Leucotome
- **Orbitoclast
- *Lobotomy patients
- ** Howard Dully
Fever therapy
- Pyrotherapy
Psychological treatment
- Psychotherapy
- List of psychotherapies
Legal frameworks of psychiatric treatment
- Diminished responsibility
- Forensic Psychiatry
- Informed consent
- Insanity
- Insanity defence
- Involuntary commitment
- Involuntary treatment
- Irresistible impulse
- M'Naghten Rules
- Macdonald triad
- Mens rea
- Mental health law
- Obligatory Dangerousness Criterion
- Outpatient commitment
- Psychiatric advance directive
- Sanity
- Therapeutic jurisprudence
- Ulysses pact
- Voluntary commitment
Australia
- Justices examination order
- Mental Health Review Tribunal of New South Wales
Ireland
- 1814-1922
- * Criminal Lunatics Act 1838
- From 1922–present
- * Mental Health Act 2001
Italy
- Basaglia Law
- Law 180
U.K.
- Care in the Community
- Criminal Lunatics Act 1800
- Idiots Act 1886
- Fixated Threat Assessment Centre
- Lunacy Act 1845
- Lunacy Act 1886
- Madhouses Act 1774
- Place of safety
England and Wales
- Approved Mental Health Professional
- Diminished responsibility in English law
- Mental Capacity Act 2005
- Mental Health Act 1983
- Mental Health Act 2007
- Mental Health Review Tribunal
- Mental Treatment Act 1930
- Nearest relative
Scotland
- Adults with Incapacity Act 2000
- Forensic Network
- Mental Health Act 2003
- Mental Health Act 1999
U.S.A.
- Adjudicative competence
- Civil confinement
- Civil Rights of Institutionalized Persons Act
- Competence
- Duty to protect
- Duty to warn
- Forensic Mental Health Association of California
- List of criminal competencies
- Mental health courts
- PsychRights
- Ultimate issue
- * Californian mental health law
- ** 5150
- * Florida mental health law
- ** Florida Mental Health Act: the Baker Act
Politics of psychiatry
Political movements
- Psychiatric survivors movement
Anti-psychiatry movement
- Anti-psychiatry
People in the anti-psychiatry movement
- Franco Basaglia
- David Cooper
- Michel Foucault
- R.D. Laing
- Loren Mosher
- Thomas Szasz
Anti-psychiatry publications
- Against Therapy
- Anti-Oedipus
- Madness and Civilization
Anti-psychiatry organisations
- American Association for the Abolition of Involuntary Mental Hospitalization
Psychiatric Institutions
General
- Asylums
- Psychiatric hospital
- * History of psychiatric institutions
- Deinstitutionalization
- Psychiatric reform in Italy
- Titicut Follies
Australian psychiatric institutions
- List of Australian psychiatric institutions
Psychiatric organizations
- American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology
- American Psychiatric Association
- American Neuropsychiatric Association
- Brazilian Association of Psychiatry
- Canadian Psychiatric Association
- Chinese Society of Psychiatry
- Democratic Psychiatry
- German Society of Psychiatry, Psychotherapy and Neurology
- Hong Kong College of Psychiatrists
- Independent Psychiatric Association of Russia
- Indian Psychiatric Society
- Irish College of Psychiatrists
- Israeli Psychiatric Association
- Italian Psychiatric Society
- Japanese Society of Psychiatry & Neurology
- Korean Neuropsychiatric Association
- Maryland Psychiatric Society
- National Institute of Mental Health
- Pakistan Psychiatric Society
- Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists
- Royal College of Psychiatrists
- Singapore Psychiatric Association
- South African Society of Psychiatrists
- World Psychiatric Association
Psychiatry publications
Persons influential in psychiatry
Psychiatrists
- List of psychiatrists
Academic psychiatrists by country
- Ireland
- *Patricia Casey
- *Anthony Clare