
Psychiatry is a branch of medicine that studies and treats mental and emotional disorders (see mental illness). While any physician may prescribe the medications used to treat various forms of mental illness, psychiatrists are more extensively trained in differential diagnosis of mental illness and keep up to date on the newest treatment modalities for mental illness. The term ''alienist'' is an old term for a psychiatrist, and the term ''shrink'' (from ''head shrinker'') is a (sometimes offensive) slang term for a psychotherapist. Note that psychiatry is practiced by psychiatrists, psychology by psychologists. Psychiatrists are medical doctors and may prescribe psychopharmacology. Psychology is the broader study of behaviour and thought processes not just in the context of mental health. Clinical psychology specialize in mental health and have extensive training in therapy and psychological testing. They do not usually prescribe drugs. == Mind versus brain == Psychiatric illnesses were for some time characterised as disorders of function of the mind rather than the brain, although the distinction is not always obvious. In the current state of knowledge this distinction does not always hold true, as many psychiatric conditions have physical etiology. For a long period of history, neurology and psychiatry were a single discipline, and following their division the steady advance in understanding of the basic functioning of neurons and the brain is bringing areas of the two disciplines back together. Psychiatry was at first a pragmatic discipline that was part of general medicine, combining medicine and practical psychology. The work of Emil Kraepelin laid the foundations of scientific psychiatry, but was derailed by the psychoanalytic theories of Sigmund Freud. For many years, Freudian theories dominated psychiatric thinking. The discovery of lithium carbonate as a treatment for bipolar disorder, followed by the development of fields such as molecular biology and tools such as brain imaging has led to psychiatry re-discovering its origins in physical and observational medicine without losing sight of its humane dimension. == Anti-psychiatry == :''For more on this topic see the main anti-psychiatry article'' Unlike most other areas of medicine, there is a politicised anti-psychiatry movement opposed to the practices of, and in some cases the existence of, psychiatry. Some opponents of psychiatry state that selective financing by large multinational drug companies of both high ranking professional psychiatrists, research and educational material has led the practice of psychiatry to be subversively, and in some cases inhumanely, misled. Some common criticisms of the field include the notion that no cause of mental illness has ever been found. There are a number of people trained in the field who have stated that physical tests cannot distinquish between a normal person and a mentally ill person. In lieu of scientifically defined clinical pathologies, critics contend, psychiatrists rely upon a notion of mental illness often referred to as the chemical imbalance theory. There are also criticisms based on what is perceived as political motivations on the part of psychiatrists as opposed to objective scientific criteria. An example often cited is the removal of homosexuality from the list of mental illnesses in the Diagnostic_and_Statistical_Manual_of_Mental_Disorders. Thus, some critics contend a mental illness label such as schizophrenia has no etiology and is only a matter of opinion. If the addition or removal of mental illnesses from the DSM is politically based, then the DSM can not be held by all as an objective standard. However, it is possible to argue that even if the removal or addition of psychiatric conditions to/from the DSM has been politically motivated, the initial inclusion or exclusion may have been a result of politics, creating something of an equalization effect. Morever, many would hold it logical fallacy to argue all DSM diagnoses are categorically invalid simply because one or some may be politically motivated or otherwise invalid. Also, some people criticize the psychiatric profession for treatments that transition into and out of usage. An example is electroconvulsive therapy (ECT), which the psychiatric profession considered a barbarous practice during the 1970s and 1980s, only to be revived recently as a treatment for depression. A few prominent critics of psychology and mental illness in general include Thomas Szasz, the author of "The Myth of Mental Illness", who founded an organization in 1969 together with the Church of Scientology (though soon afterwards he disavowed further association with them) called the Citizens Commission on Human Rights (CCHR), Peter Breggin, the author of ''Prozac Backlash'', as well as other books criticizing the use of psychiatric drugs, Elliott Valenstein, Douglas C. Smith, Bruce Levine, and David Keirsey. ==Practice of psychiatry== In the United States, psychiatrists are board certified as specialists in their field. Physicians wishing to become board certified psychiatrists will practice as residents for four years, learning the specialty before taking the psychiatry boards. In other countries, similar rules usually apply. ==Famous figures in psychiatry == Psychiatrists *Alfred Adler Individual psychology *Aaron Beck cognitive therapy *Eugene Bleuler diagnostic criteria for schizophrenia *Ian Brockington nosological pioneer *John Cade introduced lithium *Ugo Cerletti electroconvulsive therapy *Edmund Chiu Huntington's chorea *Timothy Crow biological basis of schizophrenia *Pierre Deniker introduced chlorpromazine *Leon Eisenberg Psychiatric anthropology *Milton Erickson hypnosis *Jean Etienne Esquirol descriptive psychopathology and postnatal depression *Frantz Fanon effect of discrimination on an individual *Daniel X Freedman *Christopher Paul Lindsay Freeman electroconvulsive therapy *Sigmund Freud introduced psychoanalysis *William Glasser reality therapy & choice theory *Max Hamilton introduced depression and anxiety scales *David Healy influence of pharmaceuticals *Ashoka Jahnavi-Prasad introduced sodium valproate as a safer alternative to lithium *Pierre Janet intoduced the concept of dissociation *Karl Jaspers phenomenologist *Eve Johnstone brain changes in schizophrenia *Maxwell Jones therapeautic community *Carl Gustav Jung analytical psychology *Seymour Kety pioneer in psychiatric genetics *Eric R. Kandel *Radovan Karadzic psychiatrist, politician and alleged war criminal *Robert Evan Kendell diagnostic problems in psychiatry *Antoni Kepinski *Arthur Klienmen psychiatric anthropologist *Emil Kraepelin pioneer of psychiatry *Richard von Krafft-Ebbing *Norman Krietman psychiatric epidemiology *R. D. Laing antipsychiatry movement *Sir Aubrey Lewis nosological pioneer *Alwyn Lishman neuropsychiatrist *Peter McGuffin psychiatric geneticist *Adolf Meyer psychobiology *Egas Moniz psychosurgery *Henry Murray *John Nemiah psychotherapist *Ian Oswald sleep research *Eugene Paykel life events and mental illness *Ivan Pavlov pioneer of conditioning behavior *Jean Piaget famous for his theory of cognitive development *Philippe Pinel abolished all retraint in psychiatric treatment *W. H. R. Rivers psychiatric anthropologist *Sir Martin Roth psychiatry of old age *Sir Michael Rutter child psychiatry *William Sargant mind control *Kurt Schneider diagnostic criteria *Mogens Schou lithium therapy *Carl Hans Heinze Sennhenn eugenicist *Peter Sifneos *Elliott Slater psychiatric epidemiologist *Robert Spitzer diagnostic criteria *Harry Stack Sullivan interpersonal psychiatry *Thomas Szasz antipsychiatry movement *Eng Seong Tan cross cultural psychiatry *Fuller Torrey Humane treatment of schizophrenia *Ming Tsuang psychiatric geneticist *Ladislas von Meduna pharmacoconvulsions *Julius Wagner-Jauregg malarial treatment of GPI *Sula Wolff children under stress Others: *Kay Redfield Jamison - a psychologist who, whilst not a psychiatrist herself, is professor of psychiatry at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and a MacArthur Fellow. ==Psychiatrists in fiction == * Dr. Alistair Crown in Bernice Rubens' novel ''A Solitary Grief'' (1991) * Dr. Dick Diver in F. Scott Fitzgerald's novel ''Tender is the Night'' * Dr. Igor in Paulo Coelho's novel ''Veronika Decides to Die'' * The radio talk-show presenter Dr Frasier Crane in the sit-com ''Frasier'' * Hannibal Lecter from Thomas Harris's books * Dr. Laszlo Kreizler from The Alienist and The Angel of Darkness by Caleb Carr * Dr. Tobias Funke in the sitcom ''Arrested Development'' == See also == * anti-psychiatry * cognitive neuropsychiatry * list of psychiatric drugs * neuropsychiatry * psychiatric survivors movement * psychoanalysis * psychopharmacology * psychotherapy * List_of_publications_in_biology#Psychiatry * List_of_publications_in_medicine * List_of_publications_in_psychology Psychiatry ga:Síciatracht
== List == I think this list is pretty good and I find the list long enough for a general encyclopedia. However, it would better be organized a little bit. All these diseases may be classified as a.psychoses (organic, functional), b.neuroses or psychoneuroses, c.personality disorders, d.others (psychosexual disorders, disorders of childhood, disorders of impulse control etc.). But, I think organizing the whole list requires a psychiatrist rather than a neurologist. On the other hand, narcolepsy and Tourette's syndrome are definitely not psychiatric disorders. Their organic etiologies were identified UserErdemTuzun. :OK. This is just a starting point.
:Anyway do we have psychiatrists here ?
:This page could be a short description with subpages.
:One example would be :
:Alphabetic list :
:* Disorders starting with A :* Disorders starting with B :* etc :Nosological list :
:* A :* B :
User:Kpjas :::I think we should also pay attention to the fact that not all of these illnesses, perhaps, are always spelled with capital letters--in which case, the articles about those illnesses shouldn't be so spelled either. Please see :naming conventions. --User:LMS == Psychiatry vs Psychology == More information on the differences between psychiatry and psychology would also be welcome: I know psychiatry requires medical training but what else makes a psychologist or psychiatrist? --User:Axon :The article essentially says it: psychiatrist - studied medicine, then formal specialist trainig in psychiatry; psychologist - studied psychology, then may specialise (formally?) in various fields of which psychotherapy is only one. User:Kosebamse 09:24 May 9, 2003 (UTC) Thanks for the feedback. I have to admit I'm still a little confused: why have the two seperate disciplines? --User:Axon :Note from Tim Nelson (not a Wikipedian, but happened to be here): Here's what I've picked up. Think of a biologist vs. a doctor. A Psychologist is like a biologist; more general, probably more academic, more prone to inventing Grand Unified Theories of Human Systems. A Psychiatrist is more like a doctor, focussed on illnesses and cures. There's a theoretical side here too, but similarly focussed. Then, in the physical field, you have a number of associated personnel; specialists in particular problems (dentists) or kinds of cures (myotherapists?, naturopaths?), or in *improved* health (personal trainers). I don't know what these are in the mental world, but I think the self-help movement (or whatever you call Tony Robbins, the NLP crowd, Win Wenger, the PhotoReading people, and all those) fit into this category. :Like I hope I implied, I'm just guessing here, but it's an educated guess. HTH == Domain == ...which is one of the things about Psyciatry I find particularly notable. As soon as a medically proven and remediable condition is found for an erstwhile "psychiatric" condition, the condition immediately becomes medical and no longer psychiatric - which leaves psychiatry with only those conditions which cannot be predicted, proved or cured. Hmmm... :Add "defined" to that list. For example, see Talk:Antisocial_personality_disorder, Delusion#Diagnostic_issues, and Schizophrenia#Diagnostic_issues_and_controversies. A book on which the marginalization, imprisonment and mistreatment of so many people is based cannot accidentally have such logical errors. :-Anonymonster ==Anti-Psychiatry== Seen where? I have worked in psychiatry (in Finland) almost a decade an have not encountered this kind of movement. User:Jps 21:24, Jul 12, 2004 (UTC)jps :See Anti-psychiatry. It would be great if you could add more to ''this'' article (Psychiatry not Anti... because as it stands the Anti has the longer article. I feel this one is rather short at the moment. --User:Bodnotbod 00:38, Jul 19, 2004 (UTC) ::Somehow "politicized" movement opposes vague "practices" of psychiatry. It's vague POV. “Some”, overrepresented in the article, state that “selective financing by large multinational drug companies” and UFO riding space aliens (possibly the implied comparison in the article) “of high ranking professional psychiatrists, research and educational material has led psychiatry to be subversively, and in some cases inhumanely”, and supposedly, “misled”. ::Look, anti-psychiatry is not politicized in the sense that it has a hidden political agenda. It is itself the politics. The article exaggerates a focus on (probably true) paranoid conspiracy theories. This, on the other hand, might be POV, but is at least neutral enough to be true to subject as much as any POV can be: ::"Modern antipsychiatric views point to the: ::1) inherent vague, untestable and thus pseudoscientific nature of psychiatry and psychology, including the definitions of key mental illnesses. ::2) severity of involuntary commitment, especially considering the minor illnesses for which society is eager to involuntarily commit its members. ::3) explicit inclusion in the diagnostic criteria, for involuntarily committable illnesses, a mere difference from what the psychiatrist subjectively believes is normal or appropriate on some inherently subjective topic like culture, philosophy, religion, or politics. (See Delusion, Psychopath, and Schizophrenia.) ::4) subjectivity of the diagnosis of Schizophrenia. ::5) involuntary commitment of those who have not been charged with any crime, those whom the court has vindicated as not guilty by reason of the insanity defense, and those who allegedly belong in a regular - and allegedly thus more humane – ‘prison’. ::6) unconstitutionality of involuntary commitment. ::7) far higher diagnosis of Schizophrenia for those in the USA and ‘second generation African Caribbeans living in the United Kingdom’ despite the commonly equivalent rate of Schizophrenia in a variety of cultures. ::8) disproportionate prescription of high doses of "anti-psychotic" medication to young black males in the United States, and the disproportionate involuntary commitment of blacks. ::In response, many diagnosed with a mental illness or illnesses, and their family members and close friends claim that antipsychiatric views are somehow contrary to their own experience with mental illness. They believe that mental illness produces real and terrible suffering which psychiatry and social treatment programs have been effective in relieving. ::Their experience does not adress what modern antipsychiatric views point to, however." User:FETuriousness 10:52, 8 Oct 2004 (UTC) ::Or, rather, "Their experience is an ''acceptable'' argument, just not a ''counter'' argument." And please keep the link to Anti-psychiatry. User:FETuriousness 10:03, 9 Oct 2004 (UTC) == What is a psychiatriast vs psychologist == Kay Redfield Jameson may be a professor of Psychiatry, affected by psychiatric illness ''and'' an expert on some aspects of psychiatry. However, she is not and has not been a psychiatrist. There are very specific training requirements to becoming a psychiatry, which only begin with attending a medical school.Why is she on the list? 16:24, Aug 09, 2004 (UTC)sof :I've made it clearer -- she's a prominent figure in psychiatry (indeed, a professor of psychiatry at a famous med school), but is a psychologist, not a psychiatrist. -- User:The Anome 17:00, 9 Aug 2004 (UTC) ::Sigmund Freud is included in the list of "Famous figures in psychiatry" but he was certainly no psychiatrist (he was a neurologist), and the field of psychoanalysis which he introduced was severely attacked by psychiatrists for decades. Are we sure that his name belongs on this list? (That's a real question; I'm of a mixed mind about it myself and should no doubt visit an analyst ...) User:DSatz 05:39, Feb 23, 2005 (UTC) == Anti-psychiatry == User:Irmgard removed the bolded text from the following paragraph: * A few prominent critics of psychology and mental illness in general include Thomas Szasz, the author of "The Myth of Mental Illness", who founded One organization in 1969 together with the Church of Scientology the Citizens Commission on Human Rights (CCHR), and Peter Breggin, the author of ''Prozac Backlash'', as well as other books criticizing the use of psychiatric drugs. As Irmgard left no explanation, this information will be restored.--User:AI 18:44, 13 Jun 2005 (UTC)
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Psychiatry is a branch of medicine that studies and treats mental and emotional disorders (see mental illness). While any physician may prescribe the medications used to treat various forms of mental illness, psychiatrists are more extensively trained in differential diagnosis of mental illness and keep up to date on the newest treatment modalities for mental illness. The term ''alienist'' is an old term for a psychiatrist, and the term ''shrink'' (from ''head shrinker'') is a (sometimes offensive) slang term for a psychotherapist. Note that psychiatry is practiced by psychiatrists, psychology by psychologists. Psychiatrists are medical doctors and may prescribe psychopharmacology. Psychology is the broader study of behaviour and thought processes not just in the context of mental health. Clinical psychology specialize in mental health and have extensive training in therapy and psychological testing. They do not usually prescribe drugs. == Mind versus brain == Psychiatric illnesses were for some time characterised as disorders of function of the mind rather than the brain, although the distinction is not always obvious. In the current state of knowledge this distinction does not always hold true, as many psychiatric conditions have physical etiology. For a long period of history, neurology and psychiatry were a single discipline, and following their division the steady advance in understanding of the basic functioning of neurons and the brain is bringing areas of the two disciplines back together. Psychiatry was at first a pragmatic discipline that was part of general medicine, combining medicine and practical psychology. The work of Emil Kraepelin laid the foundations of scientific psychiatry, but was derailed by the psychoanalytic theories of Sigmund Freud. For many years, Freudian theories dominated psychiatric thinking. The discovery of lithium carbonate as a treatment for bipolar disorder, followed by the development of fields such as molecular biology and tools such as brain imaging has led to psychiatry re-discovering its origins in physical and observational medicine without losing sight of its humane dimension. == Anti-psychiatry == :''For more on this topic see the main anti-psychiatry article'' Unlike most other areas of medicine, there is a politicised anti-psychiatry movement opposed to the practices of, and in some cases the existence of, psychiatry. Some opponents of psychiatry state that selective financing by large multinational drug companies of both high ranking professional psychiatrists, research and educational material has led the practice of psychiatry to be subversively, and in some cases inhumanely, misled. Some common criticisms of the field include the notion that no cause of mental illness has ever been found. There are a number of people trained in the field who have stated that physical tests cannot distinquish between a normal person and a mentally ill person. In lieu of scientifically defined clinical pathologies, critics contend, psychiatrists rely upon a notion of mental illness often referred to as the chemical imbalance theory. There are also criticisms based on what is perceived as political motivations on the part of psychiatrists as opposed to objective scientific criteria. An example often cited is the removal of homosexuality from the list of mental illnesses in the Diagnostic_and_Statistical_Manual_of_Mental_Disorders. Thus, some critics contend a mental illness label such as schizophrenia has no etiology and is only a matter of opinion. If the addition or removal of mental illnesses from the DSM is politically based, then the DSM can not be held by all as an objective standard. However, it is possible to argue that even if the removal or addition of psychiatric conditions to/from the DSM has been politically motivated, the initial inclusion or exclusion may have been a result of politics, creating something of an equalization effect. Morever, many would hold it logical fallacy to argue all DSM diagnoses are categorically invalid simply because one or some may be politically motivated or otherwise invalid. Also, some people criticize the psychiatric profession for treatments that transition into and out of usage. An example is electroconvulsive therapy (ECT), which the psychiatric profession considered a barbarous practice during the 1970s and 1980s, only to be revived recently as a treatment for depression. A few prominent critics of psychology and mental illness in general include Thomas Szasz, the author of "The Myth of Mental Illness", who founded an organization in 1969 together with the Church of Scientology (though soon afterwards he disavowed further association with them) called the Citizens Commission on Human Rights (CCHR), Peter Breggin, the author of ''Prozac Backlash'', as well as other books criticizing the use of psychiatric drugs, Elliott Valenstein, Douglas C. Smith, Bruce Levine, and David Keirsey. ==Practice of psychiatry== In the United States, psychiatrists are board certified as specialists in their field. Physicians wishing to become board certified psychiatrists will practice as residents for four years, learning the specialty before taking the psychiatry boards. In other countries, similar rules usually apply. ==Famous figures in psychiatry == Psychiatrists *Alfred Adler Individual psychology *Aaron Beck cognitive therapy *Eugene Bleuler diagnostic criteria for schizophrenia *Ian Brockington nosological pioneer *John Cade introduced lithium *Ugo Cerletti electroconvulsive therapy *Edmund Chiu Huntington's chorea *Timothy Crow biological basis of schizophrenia *Pierre Deniker introduced chlorpromazine *Leon Eisenberg Psychiatric anthropology *Milton Erickson hypnosis *Jean Etienne Esquirol descriptive psychopathology and postnatal depression *Frantz Fanon effect of discrimination on an individual *Daniel X Freedman *Christopher Paul Lindsay Freeman electroconvulsive therapy *Sigmund Freud introduced psychoanalysis *William Glasser reality therapy & choice theory *Max Hamilton introduced depression and anxiety scales *David Healy influence of pharmaceuticals *Ashoka Jahnavi-Prasad introduced sodium valproate as a safer alternative to lithium *Pierre Janet intoduced the concept of dissociation *Karl Jaspers phenomenologist *Eve Johnstone brain changes in schizophrenia *Maxwell Jones therapeautic community *Carl Gustav Jung analytical psychology *Seymour Kety pioneer in psychiatric genetics *Eric R. Kandel *Radovan Karadzic psychiatrist, politician and alleged war criminal *Robert Evan Kendell diagnostic problems in psychiatry *Antoni Kepinski *Arthur Klienmen psychiatric anthropologist *Emil Kraepelin pioneer of psychiatry *Richard von Krafft-Ebbing *Norman Krietman psychiatric epidemiology *R. D. Laing antipsychiatry movement *Sir Aubrey Lewis nosological pioneer *Alwyn Lishman neuropsychiatrist *Peter McGuffin psychiatric geneticist *Adolf Meyer psychobiology *Egas Moniz psychosurgery *Henry Murray *John Nemiah psychotherapist *Ian Oswald sleep research *Eugene Paykel life events and mental illness *Ivan Pavlov pioneer of conditioning behavior *Jean Piaget famous for his theory of cognitive development *Philippe Pinel abolished all retraint in psychiatric treatment *W. H. R. Rivers psychiatric anthropologist *Sir Martin Roth psychiatry of old age *Sir Michael Rutter child psychiatry *William Sargant mind control *Kurt Schneider diagnostic criteria *Mogens Schou lithium therapy *Carl Hans Heinze Sennhenn eugenicist *Peter Sifneos *Elliott Slater psychiatric epidemiologist *Robert Spitzer diagnostic criteria *Harry Stack Sullivan interpersonal psychiatry *Thomas Szasz antipsychiatry movement *Eng Seong Tan cross cultural psychiatry *Fuller Torrey Humane treatment of schizophrenia *Ming Tsuang psychiatric geneticist *Ladislas von Meduna pharmacoconvulsions *Julius Wagner-Jauregg malarial treatment of GPI *Sula Wolff children under stress Others: *Kay Redfield Jamison - a psychologist who, whilst not a psychiatrist herself, is professor of psychiatry at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and a MacArthur Fellow. ==Psychiatrists in fiction == * Dr. Alistair Crown in Bernice Rubens' novel ''A Solitary Grief'' (1991) * Dr. Dick Diver in F. Scott Fitzgerald's novel ''Tender is the Night'' * Dr. Igor in Paulo Coelho's novel ''Veronika Decides to Die'' * The radio talk-show presenter Dr Frasier Crane in the sit-com ''Frasier'' * Hannibal Lecter from Thomas Harris's books * Dr. Laszlo Kreizler from The Alienist and The Angel of Darkness by Caleb Carr * Dr. Tobias Funke in the sitcom ''Arrested Development'' == See also == * anti-psychiatry * cognitive neuropsychiatry * list of psychiatric drugs * neuropsychiatry * psychiatric survivors movement * psychoanalysis * psychopharmacology * psychotherapy * List_of_publications_in_biology#Psychiatry * List_of_publications_in_medicine * List_of_publications_in_psychology Psychiatry ga:Síciatracht
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== List == I think this list is pretty good and I find the list long enough for a general encyclopedia. However, it would better be organized a little bit. All these diseases may be classified as a.psychoses (organic, functional), b.neuroses or psychoneuroses, c.personality disorders, d.others (psychosexual disorders, disorders of childhood, disorders of impulse control etc.). But, I think organizing the whole list requires a psychiatrist rather than a neurologist. On the other hand, narcolepsy and Tourette's syndrome are definitely not psychiatric disorders. Their organic etiologies were identified UserErdemTuzun. :OK. This is just a starting point.
:Anyway do we have psychiatrists here ?
:This page could be a short description with subpages.
:One example would be :
:Alphabetic list :
:* Disorders starting with A :* Disorders starting with B :* etc :Nosological list :
:* A :* B :
User:Kpjas :::I think we should also pay attention to the fact that not all of these illnesses, perhaps, are always spelled with capital letters--in which case, the articles about those illnesses shouldn't be so spelled either. Please see :naming conventions. --User:LMS == Psychiatry vs Psychology == More information on the differences between psychiatry and psychology would also be welcome: I know psychiatry requires medical training but what else makes a psychologist or psychiatrist? --User:Axon :The article essentially says it: psychiatrist - studied medicine, then formal specialist trainig in psychiatry; psychologist - studied psychology, then may specialise (formally?) in various fields of which psychotherapy is only one. User:Kosebamse 09:24 May 9, 2003 (UTC) Thanks for the feedback. I have to admit I'm still a little confused: why have the two seperate disciplines? --User:Axon :Note from Tim Nelson (not a Wikipedian, but happened to be here): Here's what I've picked up. Think of a biologist vs. a doctor. A Psychologist is like a biologist; more general, probably more academic, more prone to inventing Grand Unified Theories of Human Systems. A Psychiatrist is more like a doctor, focussed on illnesses and cures. There's a theoretical side here too, but similarly focussed. Then, in the physical field, you have a number of associated personnel; specialists in particular problems (dentists) or kinds of cures (myotherapists?, naturopaths?), or in *improved* health (personal trainers). I don't know what these are in the mental world, but I think the self-help movement (or whatever you call Tony Robbins, the NLP crowd, Win Wenger, the PhotoReading people, and all those) fit into this category. :Like I hope I implied, I'm just guessing here, but it's an educated guess. HTH == Domain == ...which is one of the things about Psyciatry I find particularly notable. As soon as a medically proven and remediable condition is found for an erstwhile "psychiatric" condition, the condition immediately becomes medical and no longer psychiatric - which leaves psychiatry with only those conditions which cannot be predicted, proved or cured. Hmmm... :Add "defined" to that list. For example, see Talk:Antisocial_personality_disorder, Delusion#Diagnostic_issues, and Schizophrenia#Diagnostic_issues_and_controversies. A book on which the marginalization, imprisonment and mistreatment of so many people is based cannot accidentally have such logical errors. :-Anonymonster ==Anti-Psychiatry== Seen where? I have worked in psychiatry (in Finland) almost a decade an have not encountered this kind of movement. User:Jps 21:24, Jul 12, 2004 (UTC)jps :See Anti-psychiatry. It would be great if you could add more to ''this'' article (Psychiatry not Anti... because as it stands the Anti has the longer article. I feel this one is rather short at the moment. --User:Bodnotbod 00:38, Jul 19, 2004 (UTC) ::Somehow "politicized" movement opposes vague "practices" of psychiatry. It's vague POV. “Some”, overrepresented in the article, state that “selective financing by large multinational drug companies” and UFO riding space aliens (possibly the implied comparison in the article) “of high ranking professional psychiatrists, research and educational material has led psychiatry to be subversively, and in some cases inhumanely”, and supposedly, “misled”. ::Look, anti-psychiatry is not politicized in the sense that it has a hidden political agenda. It is itself the politics. The article exaggerates a focus on (probably true) paranoid conspiracy theories. This, on the other hand, might be POV, but is at least neutral enough to be true to subject as much as any POV can be: ::"Modern antipsychiatric views point to the: ::1) inherent vague, untestable and thus pseudoscientific nature of psychiatry and psychology, including the definitions of key mental illnesses. ::2) severity of involuntary commitment, especially considering the minor illnesses for which society is eager to involuntarily commit its members. ::3) explicit inclusion in the diagnostic criteria, for involuntarily committable illnesses, a mere difference from what the psychiatrist subjectively believes is normal or appropriate on some inherently subjective topic like culture, philosophy, religion, or politics. (See Delusion, Psychopath, and Schizophrenia.) ::4) subjectivity of the diagnosis of Schizophrenia. ::5) involuntary commitment of those who have not been charged with any crime, those whom the court has vindicated as not guilty by reason of the insanity defense, and those who allegedly belong in a regular - and allegedly thus more humane – ‘prison’. ::6) unconstitutionality of involuntary commitment. ::7) far higher diagnosis of Schizophrenia for those in the USA and ‘second generation African Caribbeans living in the United Kingdom’ despite the commonly equivalent rate of Schizophrenia in a variety of cultures. ::8) disproportionate prescription of high doses of "anti-psychotic" medication to young black males in the United States, and the disproportionate involuntary commitment of blacks. ::In response, many diagnosed with a mental illness or illnesses, and their family members and close friends claim that antipsychiatric views are somehow contrary to their own experience with mental illness. They believe that mental illness produces real and terrible suffering which psychiatry and social treatment programs have been effective in relieving. ::Their experience does not adress what modern antipsychiatric views point to, however." User:FETuriousness 10:52, 8 Oct 2004 (UTC) ::Or, rather, "Their experience is an ''acceptable'' argument, just not a ''counter'' argument." And please keep the link to Anti-psychiatry. User:FETuriousness 10:03, 9 Oct 2004 (UTC) == What is a psychiatriast vs psychologist == Kay Redfield Jameson may be a professor of Psychiatry, affected by psychiatric illness ''and'' an expert on some aspects of psychiatry. However, she is not and has not been a psychiatrist. There are very specific training requirements to becoming a psychiatry, which only begin with attending a medical school.Why is she on the list? 16:24, Aug 09, 2004 (UTC)sof :I've made it clearer -- she's a prominent figure in psychiatry (indeed, a professor of psychiatry at a famous med school), but is a psychologist, not a psychiatrist. -- User:The Anome 17:00, 9 Aug 2004 (UTC) ::Sigmund Freud is included in the list of "Famous figures in psychiatry" but he was certainly no psychiatrist (he was a neurologist), and the field of psychoanalysis which he introduced was severely attacked by psychiatrists for decades. Are we sure that his name belongs on this list? (That's a real question; I'm of a mixed mind about it myself and should no doubt visit an analyst ...) User:DSatz 05:39, Feb 23, 2005 (UTC) == Anti-psychiatry == User:Irmgard removed the bolded text from the following paragraph: * A few prominent critics of psychology and mental illness in general include Thomas Szasz, the author of "The Myth of Mental Illness", who founded One organization in 1969 together with the Church of Scientology the Citizens Commission on Human Rights (CCHR), and Peter Breggin, the author of ''Prozac Backlash'', as well as other books criticizing the use of psychiatric drugs. As Irmgard left no explanation, this information will be restored.--User:AI 18:44, 13 Jun 2005 (UTC)
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