# 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.

## Branches of psychiatry
### 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

## Psychiatric practice and standards
### 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

### Physical treatment
#### 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

## Politics of psychiatry
### 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

## Psychiatric Institutions
### 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

## Persons influential in psychiatry
### Psychiatrists

* List of psychiatrists

#### Academic psychiatrists by country

* Ireland
** Patricia Casey
** Anthony Clare