History of psychiatry

General paresis, also known as general paralysis of the insane or paralytic dementia, is a severe neuropsychiatric disorder, classified as an organic mental disorder and caused by the chronic meningoencephalitis that leads to cerebral atrophy in late-stage syphilis.

Neurosis is a class of functional mental disorders involving distress but neither delusions nor hallucinations.

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The International Psychoanalytical Association (IPA) is an association including 12,000 psychoanalysts as members and works with 70 constituent organizations.

Deinstitutionalisation (or deinstitutionalization) is the process of replacing long-stay psychiatric hospitals with less isolated community mental health services for those diagnosed with a mental disorder or developmental disability.

Body image is a person's perception of the aesthetics or sexual attractiveness of their own body.

Political abuse of psychiatry is the misuse of psychiatry, including diagnosis, detention, and treatment, for the purposes of obstructing the human rights of individuals and/or groups in a society.

The Retreat, commonly known as the York Retreat, is a place in England for the treatment of people with mental health needs.

Bethlehemites, or Bethlemites, is a name that has many different meanings.

Social degeneration was a widely influential concept at the interface of the social and biological sciences in the 19th century.

Burghölzli is the common name given for the psychiatric hospital of the University of Zürich, Switzerland.

Am Spiegelgrund was the name of a children's clinic in Vienna where hundreds of children were killed under the Nazi RegimeChildren's Euthanasia Program.

Aktion T4 (German, pronounced [akˈtsi̯oːn teː fiːɐ]) was the postwar designation for a programme of involuntary euthanasia in Nazi Germany.

Female hysteria was a once-common medical diagnosis, reserved exclusively for women, which is today no longer recognized by medical authorities as a medical disorder.