Psychiatry in The 19th Century
- 1808
German physician Johann Christian Reil coined the term "Psychiatry".
- 1812
American physician Benjamin Rush became one of the earliest advocates of humane treatment for the mentally ill with the publication of Medical Inquiries and Observations Upon Diseases of the Mind, the first American textbook on psychiatry.
- 1821
The element Lithium was first isolated from Lithium oxide and described by English chemist William Thomas Brande.
- 1841
The Royal College of Psychiatrists in England was founded, receiving a royal charter in 1926.
- 1844
The American Psychiatric Association (APA) was founded in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
- 1845
The Lunacy Act 1845 and the County Asylums Act 1845 were passed in England and Wales, leading to the setting up of the Lunacy Commission.
- 1852
French physician Bénédict Augustin Morel published Traite des Maladies Mentales (2 vols.); the 2nd ed. (1860) coined the term "dementia praecox" (demence precoce) for patients suffering from "stupor" (melancholia). In 1857 he published Traité des Dégénérescences, promoting an understanding of mental illness based upon the theory of Degeneration, which became one of the most influential concepts in psychiatry for the rest of the century.
- 1859
Josef Breuer published Traite Clinique et Therapeutique de L'Hysterie.
- 1893
German psychiatrist Emil Kraepelin clinically defined "dementia praecox", later reformulated as Schizophrenia.
- 1895
Sigmund Freud and Josef Breuer of Austria published Studies on Hysteria, based on the case of Bertha Pappenheim (known as Anna O.), developing the Talking Cure; Freud and Breuer later split over Freud's obsession with sex.
- 1899
The Kraepelinian dichotomy between affective psychosis and dementia praecox (schizophrenia) was introduced in the 6th edition of Emil Kraepelin's famous Lehrbuch.
On November 4 Sigmund Freud published The Interpretation of Dreams (Die Tramdeutung).
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