Outline of psychiatry
Overview of and topical guide to 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 (a branch of science) – 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.[1]
- A behavioural science – a branch of psychology, which is concerned with the study of the emotional and cognitive functions of the mind and brain and of the person in the context of society.
- A medical specialty – branch of clinical practice, practised by physicians, psychologists, nurses, social workers, etc.
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.[2]
- 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.[3]
History of psychiatry
General psychiatry concepts
Psychiatric practice and standards
Doctor-patient relationship
Nosological system
- Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders
- International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems
Psychiatric diagnoses
Instruments
Diagnostic practices
Psychiatric treatment
Chemical treatment
- Anxiolytics
- Antidepressants
- Antipsychotic
- Chemical imbalance theory
- Mood stabilizers
- Psychiatric medication
- List of psychiatric medications
- List of psychiatric medications by condition treated
Physical treatment
Electroconvulsive therapy
Insulin coma therapy
- Insulin shock therapy (defunct)
Psychosurgery
- Psychosurgery
- Lobotomy (defunct)
- Lobotomy instruments
- Lobotomy patients
Fever therapy
- Pyrotherapy (defunct)
Psychological treatment
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
Ireland
- 1814-1922
- Criminal Lunatics (Ireland) Act 1838
- From 1922–present
Italy
U.K.
- Care in the Community
- Criminal Lunatics Act 1800
- Idiots Act 1886
- Fixated Threat Assessment Centre
- Lunacy Act 1845
- Lunacy (Vacating of Seats) 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 (England and Wales)
- Mental Treatment Act 1930
- Nearest relative
Scotland
- Adults with Incapacity (Scotland) Act 2000
- Forensic Network
- Mental Health (Care and Treatment) (Scotland) Act 2003
- Mental Health (Public Safety and Appeals) (Scotland) Act 1999
U.S.A.
- Adjudicative competence
- Civil confinement
- Civil Rights of Institutionalized Persons Act
- Competence (law)
- Duty to protect
- Duty to warn
- Forensic Mental Health Association of California
- List of criminal competencies
- Mental health courts
- PsychRights
- Ultimate issue (law)
- Californian mental health law
- 5150 (Involuntary psychiatric hold)
- Florida mental health law
- Florida Mental Health Act: the Baker Act
- Californian mental health law
Politics of psychiatry
Political movements
Anti-psychiatry movement
People in the anti-psychiatry movement
- Franco Basaglia
- David Cooper (psychiatrist)
- Michel Foucault
- R.D. Laing
- Loren Mosher
- Thomas Szasz
Anti-psychiatry publications
- Against Therapy
- Anti-Oedipus
- Liberation by Oppression: A Comparative Study of Slavery and Psychiatry
- Madness and Civilization
Anti-psychiatry organisations
Psychiatric Institutions
General
- Asylums (book)
- Psychiatric hospital
- Deinstitutionalization
- Psychiatric reform in Italy
- Titicut Follies
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
Academic psychiatrists by country
- Ireland
See also
- Outline of medicine
- Outline of the psychiatric survivors movement
- Behavioral medicine
- Biopsychiatry controversy
- Clinical neuroscience
- Imaging genetics
- Neuroimaging
- Neurophysiology
- Psychiatrist
- Psychiatric epidemiology
- Psychiatric genetics
- Psychiatric survivors movement
- Psychosomatic medicine
- Psycho-oncology
- Psychopharmacology
- Psychosurgery
- Psychoanalysis
- Lists
- Outline of the psychiatric survivors movement
- List of psychiatrists
- List of neurological disorders
- List of counseling topics
- List of psychotherapies
- List of psychiatric medications
References
- ^ Based on definition from Aquarena Wetlands Project glossary of terms. Archived 2004-06-08 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ American Association of Community Psychiatrists About AACP Archived 2009-09-06 at the Wayback Machine Retrieved on Aug-05-2008
- ^ Patel V., Prince M. (2010). "Global mental health - a new global health field comes of age". JAMA. 303 (19): 1976–1977. doi:10.1001/jama.2010.616. PMC 3432444. PMID 20483977.
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- Geriatric psychiatry
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- Palliative medicine
- Pain medicine
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- Behavioral medicine
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- Controversies about psychiatry
- Imaging genetics
- Neuroimaging
- Neurophysiology
- Pentylenetetrazol
- Philosophy of psychiatry
- Psychiatric epidemiology
- Psychiatric genetics
- Psychiatric hospital
- Psychiatrist
- Psychoanalysis
- Psycho-oncology
- Psychopharmacology
- Psychosomatic medicine
- Psychosurgery
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