Sentences with phrase «history of psychiatry»

The first chapter gives a brief overview of the history of psychiatry, beginning in ancient Greece, describing how mental illness has been regarded and treated through the ages; along the way, it debunks the myth that the early Church saw all mental illness as diabolic.

This journey through the history of psychiatry takes readers from madhouses, where people were relegated for being problematic to society, to asylums, which focused more on the treatment of the individual.

The history of psychiatry is full of examples of political, social and economic influences on both diagnosis and treatment.

Banish the phrase «cruise control» from your lexicon, unless you're trying to keep Tom from expounding on the history of psychiatry or from jumping on Oprah's couch.

In July, an international consortium of schizophrenia researchers, mounting what it calls the largest biological experiment in the history of psychiatry, reported 108 regions in the genome associated with schizophrenia.

«And in the history of psychiatry, these were the principles on which asylums were originally built.»

He is also the founder and the lead principal investigator of the Psychiatric Genomics Consortium, the largest consortium in the history of psychiatry.

Faulks's latest novel, a 550 page epic that took him four years to write, is not so much a novel about the dawn of modern psychiatry, as a history of psychiatry wrapped around a novel.

Her first major solo show in New York featured a series of paintings of asylums informed by the history of psychiatry, shown in 2006 at the Feigen Contemporary gallery.

Her field of expertise is the history of psychiatry and institutional reform in mental healthcare since the 1700s..