Timeline of Psychiatry - The Era of The New Psychopharmacology

The Era of The New Psychopharmacology

1950

The World Psychiatric Association was founded.

1952

The first published clinical trial of chlorpromazine who is the first antipsychotic (has been invent by Henri Laborit, Jean Delay and Pierre Deniker) was conducted at fr:Centre hospitalier Sainte-Anne in Paris.

1952

The American Psychiatric Association (APA) published the first Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM); it was revised in 1968, 1980/7, 1994, and 2000.

1952

The first monoamine oxidase inhibitor (MAOI) antidepressant iproniazid was discovered.

1953

Russian-born physiologist Nathaniel Kleitman of the U. of Chicago discovered rapid eye movement Sleep (REM), founding modern sleep research.

French psychiatrist Jacques Lacan broke with the IPA over his variable-length sessions, and founded the Société Française de Psychanalyse.

1954

James Olds and Peter Milner of McGill University discovered the brain reward system.

Roger Sperry of Caltech began split-brain research.

On the recommendation of the Bhore Committee in 1946, the All India Institute of Mental Health was founded, becoming the National Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences (NIMHANS) in 1974 at Bangalore.

1956

Gregory Bateson, John Weakland, Donald deAvila Jackson, and Jay Haley proposed the double bind rheory of schizophrenia, which regards it as stemming from situations where a person receives different or contradictory messages.

The English translation of The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud was published in 24 volumes (1956–74).

1957

Arvid Carlsson demonstrated that dopamine is a neurotransmitter in the brain.

The first tricyclic antidepressant (TCA), imipramine was discovered from the pineal gland.

1958

Aaron B. Lerner et al. of Yale University isolated the hormone melatonin, which was found to regulate the circadian rhythm.

1960s

Aaron T. Beck developed sognitive therapy.

1960

The first benzodiazepine, chlordiazepoxide, under the trade name Librium was introduced.

1963

United States president John F. Kennedy introduced legislation delegating the National Institute of Mental Health to administer Community Mental Health Centers for those being discharged from state psychiatric hospitals.

Medard Boss founded Daseinsanalysis.

1964

Ronald David Laing published Sanity, Madness and the Family, claiming that the roots of schizophrenia lie in the "family nexus", where people play dark games with each other.

1970

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved lithium for acute mania.

On October 27 the U.S. Controlled Substances Act was passed, putting LSD, DMT, Psilocybin, Mescaline, and Marijuana on Schedule I (no accepted medical use), shutting down research.

1972

American psychologist David Rosenhan published the Rosenhan experiment, a study challenging the validity of psychiatric diagnoses.

1973

The American Psychiatric Association declassified homosexuality as a mental disorder.

The Caucus of Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual Members of the American Psychiatric Association was officially founded. A primary function of the organization was to advocate to the APA on LGBT mental health issues. The caucus changed its name to the Association of Gay and Lesbian Psychiatrists in 1985.

1977

The ICD-9 was published by the WHO.

Andrey Lichko published Psychopathies and Accentuations of Character of Teenagers.

1982

The National Mental Health Programme (NMHP) was launched in India.

1983

The European Psychiatric Association was founded.

1987

The Indian Mental Health Act was drafted by the parliament, but it came into effect in all the states andunion territories of India in April 1993. This act replaced the Indian Lunacy Act of 1912, which had earlier replaced the Indian Lunatic Asylum act of 1858.

1988

Fluoxetine (trade name Prozac), the first selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor (SSRI) antidepressant was released, quickly becoming the most prescribed.

The American Neuropsychiatric Association was founded.

U.S. president George H. W. Bush declared the 1990s "the Decade of the Brain".

1990

Use of the "blood-oxygen-level dependent (BOLD) in MRI first discovered by Dr. Seiji Ogawa

1991

Kenneth Kwong successfully applied BOLD to image human brain activities with MRI, and published the findings in 1992.

1994

The appetite-suppressing hormone leptin was discovered.

1996

On Sept. 26 U.S. President William Clinton signed the Mental Health Parity Act, requiring psychiatric conditions to be considered equal to any other medical or surgical illness by health insurance providers; on October 4, 2008 President George W. Bush signed an amended version.