The History Psychology and Psychiatrist

Salem Witch Trials Supersitition

Sep 17, 1724

New England Puritan minister Cotton Mather broke with superstition by advancing physical explanations for mental illnesses over demonic explanations (salem witch trials)

more humane treatment

Sep 18, 1793

Philippe Pinel released the first mental patients from confinement in the first massive movement for more humane treatment of the mentally ill.

Association of Medical Superintendents of American

Sep 17, 1844

The Association of Medical Superintendents of American Institutions for the Insane (AMSAII), Which is a forrunner for the American Psyiatric Associtation, was founded in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Schizophrenia

Sep 17, 1893

German psychiatrist Emil Kraepelin clinically defined "dementia praecox", later reformulated as Schizophrenia

Shellshock

Nov 17, 1918

the First World War is often identified with the rise of the disorder of “shellshock.”

Electroencephalogram invented

Sep 17, 1929

Electroencephalogram invented
Psychiatrist Hans Berger invents the electroencephalogram. The device graphs the electrical activity of the brain by means of electrodes attached to the head.

Electroshock Therapy

Sep 17, 1938

Electroshock therapy was first used on a human patient.

World Psychiatric Association

Sep 17, 1950

The World Psychiatric Association was founded

modern sleep research

Sep 17, 1953

Russian-born physiologist Nathaniel Kleitman discovered rapid eye movement Sleep (REM), founding modern sleep research.

e-therapy

Sep 17, 2002

Psychology advances to the technological age with the emergence of e-therapy.