Pioneers
and their contribution to psychiatry
1st school
to prepare nurses to care for the mentally ill opened at McLean Hospital in
Waverly at Massachusetts (USA 1882).
1933- Manfred
Sakel introduced Insulin Coma therapy
1935- Sigmund
Freud introduced Psychoanalysis
1935- Lt. Col.
Berkley Hill- occupational therapy
1936-
Psychosurgery
1938-Lucio Bini
and Ugo Cerletti started Electro Convulsive Therapy (ECT) for psychiatric
patients.
1949-
Cade-Lithium was first used to treat mania
J. L Moreno
started Psychodrama
Adol f Meyer
1909- started Comprehensive Community Mental health approach
Aram Beck-
started Cognitive Therapy
Maxwell Jones- Therapeutic
communitv
John Watson-
Behavioural therapy
Joseph Wolpe- Systematic
Desensitization
Ivon Pavlov-
Classical conditioning
B.F Skinner- Operant
conditioning
Harry Stack
Sullivan- Interpersonal theory
Erik H. Erikson-
Concept of adult identity, identity diffusion & crisis (Theory of
psychosocial development)
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