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History of psychiatry in Bengal [PDF]
Indian Journal of Psychiatry, 2018 The history of psychiatry in Bengal mirrors the history of psychiatry in India. With Bengal being an important location for the East India Company, it became the locus for much infrastructure development, including the setting up of lunatic asylums. This
Gautam Kumar Bandyopadhyay +3 more
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History of psychiatry in Nepal. [PDF]
BJPsych Int, 2022 The history of psychiatry as a discipline in Nepal has been poorly studied. We have attempted to summarise historical landmarks to explore how it began and its evolution over time in relation to contemporary political events. Although Nepal has achieved several milestones, from establishing a psychiatric out-patient department with one psychiatrist in ...
Singh R +4 more
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History of psychiatry: An Indian perspective
Industrial Psychiatry Journal, 2018 A knowledge of history becomes important in learning the way concepts have evolved and how they are understood in different and conflicting traditions in psychiatry.
Anand Mishra, Thomas Mathai, Daya Ram
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Politicization of psychiatry and the improvement of ethical standards in the 1970s
Frontiers in Psychiatry, 2023 BackgroundThe Code of Ethics for Psychiatry adopted by the World Psychiatric Association in 1977, also known as the Declaration of Hawaii, was a milestone in the development of ethical standards in psychiatry.
Oxana Kosenko, Florian Steger
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Jornal Brasileiro de Psiquiatria, 2021 Objective: Associate Dom Pedro II’s life trajectory and the beginning of Brazilian psychiatry through the Pedro II Asylum. Methods: We conducted a narrative review of the literature on three search databases: Google Scholar, Pub Med, and Web of Science (
Maria Francisca F. P. Mauro +3 more
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Book Review - Johnson, Jenell. American Lobotomy: A Rhetorical History
Transversal: International Journal for the Historiography of Science, 2017 Book review Johnson, Jenell. American Lobotomy: A Rhetorical History. Michigan: University of Michigan Press, 2013. 240 pp. ISBN: 978-0-472-03665-3.
Eliza Teixeira de Toledo
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Current Opinion in Psychiatry, 2008 The present review examines recent contributions to the evolving field of historical writing in psychiatry.Interest in the history of psychiatry continues to grow, with an increasing emphasis on topics of current interest such as the history of psychopharmacology, electroconvulsive therapy, and the interplay between psychiatry and society. The scope of
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Minimal-medication approaches to treating schizophrenia [PDF]
, 2009 UK guidelines for treating people diagnosed with schizo phrenia currently emphasise the primacy of antipsychotic medication, with or without psycho-socially based interventions as circumstances dictate.
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Introduction: histories of asylums, insanity and psychiatry in Scotland [PDF]
, 2016 This paper introduces a special issue on ‘Histories of madness, asylums and psychiatry in Scotland’, situating the papers that follow in an outline historiography of work in this field.
Andrews, Jonathan, Philo, Christopher
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Indian Journal of Psychiatry, 2018 Specialists in psychiatry, in the Indian sub-continent, were trained in the UK in the early 20th century. Just before Independence, an Indian branch of the Royal Medical Psychological Association was established.
Sanjeev Jain, Pratima Murthy, Alok Sarin
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