Specialty in psychiatry can be traced in Ancient India. The oldest texts on psychiatry include the ayurvedic text, Charaka Samhita. Some of the first hospitals...

Psychiatry is the medical specialty devoted to the diagnosis, prevention, and treatment of deleterious mental conditions. These include various matters...

its growing use in psychiatry, and undergraduate psychology students taking LSD as part of their education described the effects of the drug. Time magazine...

helpful to patients, highlighting controversies about psychiatry. Objections include the reliability of psychiatric diagnosis, the questionable effectiveness...

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Journal of Psychiatry. 1995;152(4):505–15. doi:10.1176/ajp.152.4.505. PMID 7900928. Szasz, Thomas. Coercion as Cure: A Critical History of Psychiatry. New...

Shock therapy describes a set of techniques used in psychiatry to treat depressive disorder or other illnesses. It covers multiple forms, such as inducing...

Andrews, Jonathan (2007a). "The (un)dress of the mad poor in England, c.1650—1850. Part 1" (PDF). History of Psychiatry. 18 (1): 005–24. doi:10.1177/0957154X07067245...

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