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.
 * A behavioural science – a branch of psychology, which is concerned with the study of the emotional and cognitive functions of the mind and brain and of the person in the context of society.
 * A medical specialty – branch of clinical practice, practised by physicians, psychologists, nurses, social workers, etc.

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.
 * 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.

History of psychiatry

 * History of psychiatry

General psychiatry concepts

 * Glossary of psychiatry
 * Mental disorder
 * Classification of mental disorders
 * History of mental disorder
 * Mental Health

Doctor-patient relationship

 * Therapeutic relationship

Nosological system

 * Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders
 * International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems

Psychiatric diagnoses

 * ADHD
 * Bipolar disorder
 * Mania
 * Schizophrenia
 * History of schizophrenia
 * Dementia praecox

Instruments

 * Mental status examination

Diagnostic practices

 * Rosenhan experiment

Psychiatric treatment

 * Treatment of mental disorders

Chemical treatment

 * Anxiolytics
 * Barbiturates
 * Antidepressants
 * SSRI
 * Antipsychotic
 * Chemical imbalance theory
 * Mood stabilizers
 * Psychiatric medication
 * List of psychiatric medications
 * List of psychiatric medications by condition treated

Electroconvulsive therapy

 * Electroconvulsive therapy
 * History of electroconvulsive therapy in the United Kingdom

Insulin coma therapy

 * Insulin shock therapy (defunct)

Psychosurgery

 * Psychosurgery
 * Lobotomy (defunct)
 * Lobotomy instruments
 * Leucotome
 * Orbitoclast
 * Lobotomy patients
 * Howard Dully

Fever therapy

 * Pyrotherapy (defunct)

Psychological treatment

 * Psychotherapy
 * List of psychotherapies

Legal frameworks of psychiatric treatment

 * Diminished responsibility
 * Forensic Psychiatry
 * Informed consent
 * Insanity
 * Insanity defence
 * Involuntary commitment
 * Involuntary treatment
 * Irresistible impulse
 * M'Naghten Rules
 * Macdonald triad
 * Mens rea
 * Mental health law
 * Obligatory Dangerousness Criterion
 * Outpatient commitment
 * Psychiatric advance directive
 * Sanity
 * Therapeutic jurisprudence
 * Ulysses pact
 * Voluntary commitment

Australia

 * Justices examination order
 * Mental Health Review Tribunal of New South Wales

Ireland

 * 1814-1922
 * Criminal Lunatics (Ireland) Act 1838
 * From 1922–present
 * Mental Health Act 2001

Italy

 * Basaglia Law
 * Law 180

U.K.

 * Care in the Community
 * Criminal Lunatics Act 1800
 * Idiots Act 1886
 * Fixated Threat Assessment Centre
 * Lunacy Act 1845
 * Lunacy (Vacating of Seats) Act 1886
 * Madhouses Act 1774
 * Place of safety

England and Wales

 * Approved Mental Health Professional
 * Diminished responsibility in English law
 * Mental Capacity Act 2005
 * Mental Health Act 1983
 * Mental Health Act 2007
 * Mental Health Review Tribunal (England and Wales)
 * Mental Treatment Act 1930
 * Nearest relative

Scotland

 * Adults with Incapacity (Scotland) Act 2000
 * Forensic Network
 * Mental Health (Care and Treatment) (Scotland) Act 2003
 * Mental Health (Public Safety and Appeals) (Scotland) Act 1999

U.S.A.

 * Adjudicative competence
 * Civil confinement
 * Civil Rights of Institutionalized Persons Act
 * Competence (law)
 * Duty to protect
 * Duty to warn
 * Forensic Mental Health Association of California
 * List of criminal competencies
 * Mental health courts
 * PsychRights
 * Ultimate issue (law)
 * Californian mental health law
 * 5150 (Involuntary psychiatric hold)
 * Florida mental health law
 * Florida Mental Health Act: the Baker Act

Political movements

 * Psychiatric survivors movement

Anti-psychiatry movement

 * Anti-psychiatry

People in the anti-psychiatry movement

 * Franco Basaglia
 * David Cooper (psychiatrist)
 * Michel Foucault
 * R.D. Laing
 * Loren Mosher
 * Thomas Szasz

Anti-psychiatry publications

 * Against Therapy
 * Anti-Oedipus
 * Liberation by Oppression: A Comparative Study of Slavery and Psychiatry
 * Madness and Civilization

Anti-psychiatry organisations

 * American Association for the Abolition of Involuntary Mental Hospitalization

General

 * Asylums (book)
 * Psychiatric hospital
 * History of psychiatric institutions
 * Deinstitutionalization
 * Psychiatric reform in Italy
 * Titicut Follies

Australian psychiatric institutions

 * List of Australian psychiatric institutions

Psychiatric organizations

 * American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology
 * American Psychiatric Association
 * American Neuropsychiatric Association
 * Brazilian Association of Psychiatry
 * Canadian Psychiatric Association
 * Chinese Society of Psychiatry
 * Democratic Psychiatry
 * German Society of Psychiatry, Psychotherapy and Neurology
 * Hong Kong College of Psychiatrists
 * Independent Psychiatric Association of Russia
 * Indian Psychiatric Society
 * Irish College of Psychiatrists
 * Israeli Psychiatric Association
 * Italian Psychiatric Society
 * Japanese Society of Psychiatry & Neurology
 * Korean Neuropsychiatric Association
 * Maryland Psychiatric Society
 * National Institute of Mental Health
 * Pakistan Psychiatric Society
 * Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists
 * Royal College of Psychiatrists
 * Singapore Psychiatric Association
 * South African Society of Psychiatrists
 * World Psychiatric Association

Psychiatrists

 * List of psychiatrists

Academic psychiatrists by country

 * Ireland
 * Patricia Casey
 * Anthony Clare