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  2. Desperate Remedies: Psychiatry's Turbulent Quest to Cure ...

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    Desperate Remedies: Psychiatry's Turbulent Quest to Cure Mental Illness by sociologist Andrew Scull is a critical history of two hundred years of treatment of mental disorders in the United States. From the "birth of the asylum" in the 1830s to the drug trials and genetic studies of the 2000s, Scull catalogues efforts by psychoanalysts ...

  3. Timeline of psychotherapy - Wikipedia

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    1942 – Carl Rogers published Counseling and Psychotherapy, suggesting that respect and a non-judgmental approach to therapy is the foundation for effective treatment of mental health issues. 1943 – Albert Hofmann writes his first report about the hallucinogenic properties of LSD, which he first synthesized in 1938. LSD was practiced as a ...

  4. Treatment of mental disorders - Wikipedia

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    Providing optimal treatments earlier in the course of a mental health disorder may prevent further relapses and ongoing disability. This has led to a new early intervention in psychosis service approach for psychosis Some approaches are based on a recovery model of mental disorder, and may focus on challenging stigma and social exclusion and ...

  5. Timeline of psychiatry - Wikipedia

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    Lithium carbonate's ability to stabilize mood highs and lows in bipolar mood disorder (manic depression) was demonstrated by Australian psychiatrist John Cade, becoming the first effective medicine for the treatment of mental illness. 1949. Portuguese neurologist Egas Moniz won the Nobel Prize for his work on Lobotomy.

  6. History of psychotherapy - Wikipedia

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    Other popular treatments included physiognomy—the study of the shape of the face—and mesmerism, developed by Franz Anton Mesmer—designed to relieve psychological distress by the use of magnets. Spiritualism and Phineas Quimby 's "mental healing" technique that was very like modern concept of "positive visualization" were also popular.

  7. History of psychiatry - Wikipedia

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    Emil Kraepelin studied and promoted ideas of disease classification for mental disorders. In the early 1800s, psychiatry made advances in the diagnosis of mental illness by broadening the category of mental disease to include mood disorders, in addition to disease level delusion or irrationality. [44]