Landmark Papers in Psychiatry

Landmark Papers in Psychiatry traces the evolution of psychiatry as a scientific discipline.

By summarizing over 100 watershed psychiatric papers this text gives historical context to the research trajectory of psychiatry.

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Foundational Topics; 1 Awais Aftab and John G.

Csernansky: Diagnosis and conceptualization of mental illness; 2 Elizabeth Ryznar and Harvey Whiteford: Epidemiology; II.

Pathogenesis; 3 Elizabeth Ryznar and Herbert Y.

Meltzer: The neurochemical basis of psychiatric disorders; 4 Edwin H.

Cook Jr.

and Marina Bayeva: Genetics; 5 Ozan Toy, Emmalee Boyle, and Lynn E.

DeLisi: Inflammatory mechanisms, the immune system and psychiatric illness; 6 Shaun M.

Eack: Psychological and social factors; III.

Pharmacotherapy; 7 David.

V.

Braitman and Juan.

R.

Bustillo: Schizophrenia; 8 Jair C.

Soares, Marsal Sanches, and Rodrigo Machado-Vieira: Pharmacotherapy of mood disorders; 9 Dan J.

Stein: Pharmacotherapy of anxiety and related disorders; 10 Jenni E.

Farrow, Francisco Romo-Nava, and Melissa Delbello: Child and adolescent psychiatry; IV.

Psychosocial interventions; 11 Kevin S.

McCarthy and Richard F.

Summers: Psychodynamic therapy; 12 Keith S.

Dobson: Cognitive behavioral therapy; 13 Amanda A.

Uliaszek, Nadia Al-Dajani, Amanda Ferguson, and Zindel V.

Segal: Third wave psychotherapies; 14 Mariam Ujeyl and Wulf Rossler: Psychosocial rehabilitation; 15 Neil Jordan: Social and community psychiatry; 16 Mark R.

Dadds, Yixin Jiang, Valsamma Eapen, and Stephen Scott: Child and adolescent psychiatry and psychology; VI.

Somatic Treatments; 17 Keith G.

Rasmussen: Electroconvulsive therapy; 18 Kevin A.

Caulfield and Mark S.

George: Non-convulsive brain stimulation; 19 Paul E.

Holtzheimer and Helen Mayberg: Subcallosal cingulate deep brain stimulation for treatment-resistant depression; VII.

Special Considerations; 20 Rachel E.

Zettl and John Z.

Sadler: Psychiatric ethics; 21 Stephen H.

Dinwiddie: Forensics; 22 Danuta Wasserman, Marcus Sokolowski, and Carli Vladimir: Suicide; 23 Robert D.

Gibbons: Research methodology