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PsychiatryPsychiatry is a branch of medicine that studies and treats mental and emotional disorders (see mental illness). The term alienist is an old term for a psychiatrist. Note that psychiatry is practiced by psychiatrists, psychology by psychologists. Psychiatrists have medical training, while psychologists have extensive training in therapy and psychological testing. Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 Mind versus brain 2 Anti-psychiatry 3 Famous psychiatrists 4 Psychiatrists in fiction 5 See also 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 hold true, as most psychiatric conditions have their correlates in term of brain abnormality. 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 Unlike most other areas of medicine, there is a politicised anti-psychiatry movement that opposes 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 lead the practice of psychiatry to be subversively, and in some cases inhumanely misled. These claims are strongly contested by psychiatrists. Famous psychiatrists
This article is adapted from from Wikipedia All Wikipedia article text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders DSM-IV-TR (Text Revision) by Task Force on DSM-IV Five Minutes to Orgasm Every Time You Make Love: Female Orgasm Made Simple by Claire D. Hutchins Quick Reference to the Diagnostic Criteria from DSM-IV-TR by American Psychiatric Association The Riso-Hudson Enneagram Type Indicator (RHETI, Version 2.5) by Don Richard Riso Interview Guide for Evaluating Dsm-IV Psychiatric Disorders and the Mental Status Examination by Mark Zimmerman People of the Lie by M. Scott Peck The Complete Adult Psychotherapy Treatment Planner by Arthur E. Jongsma Jr. Asperger Syndrome and Difficult Moments: Practical Solutions for Tantrums, Rage, and Meltdowns by Brenda Smith Myles Love's Executioner : & Other Tales of Psychotherapy by Irvin D. 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Frankl DSM-IV Made Easy: The Clinician's Guide to Diagnosis by James Morrison The Gift of Therapy : An Open Letter to a New Generation of Therapists and Their Patients by Irvin Yalom The New Social Story Book : Illustrated Edition by Carol Gray Recent Psychiatry related patents From USPTO: 6717030: Protein kinase C epsilon as modulator of anxiety, alcohol consumption and self-administration of drugs of abuse 6717012: Antioxidant nitroxides and nitrones as therapeutic agents 6716868: (-)-1-(3,4-Dichlorophenyl)-3-azabicyclo[3.1.0]hexane, compositions thereof, and uses as a dopamine-reuptake inhibitor 6716854: Treatments for restless legs syndrome 6716837: Heterocyclic compounds for the treatment of migraine 6715762: System for providing entertainment and enhancing human relationships 6713471: Substituted heterocycle fused gamma-carbolines 6713309: Microarrays and their manufacture 6713276: Modulation of A.beta. levels by .beta.-secretase BACE2 6713054: Cellular immunotherapy treatment of patients afflicted with chronic fatigue syndrome 6713048: .DELTA.9 tetrahydrocannabinol (.DELTA.9 THC) solution metered dose inhalers and methods of use 6711442: Method and apparatus for reduction of pain from electric stimulation therapies 6710226: Transgenic mouse assay to determine the effect of A.beta. antibodies and A.beta. 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