Outline of psychiatry

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

Psychiatric diagnoses

Instruments

Diagnostic practices

Psychiatric treatment

Chemical treatment

Electroconvulsive therapy

Insulin coma therapy

Psychosurgery

Fever therapy

Psychological 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

Psychiatric organizations

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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