Outline of psychiatry

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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 medical specialty – branch of medical science. After completing medical school, physicians or surgeons usually further their medical education in a specific specialty of medicine by completing a multiple year residency to become a medical specialist.

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[]

Physical treatment[]

Electroconvulsive therapy[]

Insulin coma therapy[]

Psychosurgery[]

Fever therapy[]

Psychological treatment[]

Legal frameworks of psychiatric treatment[]

Australia[]

Ireland[]

Italy[]

U.K.[]

England and Wales[]
Scotland[]

U.S.A.[]

Politics of psychiatry[]

Political movements[]

Anti-psychiatry movement[]

People in the anti-psychiatry movement[]
Anti-psychiatry publications[]
Anti-psychiatry organisations[]

Psychiatric Institutions[]

General[]

Australian psychiatric institutions[]

  • List of Australian psychiatric institutions

Psychiatric organizations[]

Psychiatry publications[]

Persons influential in psychiatry[]

Psychiatrists[]

Academic psychiatrists by country[]

See also[]

Lists

References[]

  1. ^ Based on definition from Aquarena Wetlands Project glossary of terms. Archived 2004-06-08 at the Wayback Machine
  2. ^ American Association of Community Psychiatrists About AACP Archived 2009-09-06 at the Wayback Machine Retrieved on Aug-05-2008
  3. ^ 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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