History of psychiatry

See also: History of the madness

Chronology

In antiquity the psychiatric questions are not treated as such for two imperative reasons:

  • the religious thought which includes all does not recognize the psychiatric disorders but manifestations of divine the
  • It there does not have in these times of differentiations between psychism and summoned. All is treated in the body.

Hippocrates will bring a beginning of differentiation by distinquant mental disorders the such phrénétis, the mania or the melancholy

The Middle Ages

Rebirth

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19th century

Law of June 30th, 1838

20th century

In 1952, the discovery of the Nerve sedative S by Henri Laborit, Jean Delay and Pierre Deniker revolutionizes psychiatry while making it possible to consider a resocialisation for thousands of internees. Roland Kuhn (1912-2005), Swiss psychiatrist discovers the first antidepressant (imipramine).

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