List of famous figures in psychiatry

This is a list of notable figures who have been involved in the history of psychiatry. See also list of psychiatrists.

Alphabetic List

Aaron Beck Cognitive therapy

Abraham Maslow Humanistic Psychology

Adolf Meyer Psychobiology

Albert Hofmann Father of LSD

Alfred Adler Individual psychology

Ali ibn Abbas al-Majusi (Haly Abbas) Mental disorders

Alwyn Lishman Neuropsychiatry

Arthur Kleinman Psychiatric anthropologist

Carl Gustav Jung Analytical psychology

Christopher Paul Lindsay Freeman Electroconvulsive therapy

Daniel X Freedman Biological psychiatry

Edmund Chiu Huntington's chorea

Egas Moniz Psychosurgery

Elisabeth Kübler-Ross Stages of Grief

Elliot Slater Psychiatric epidemiology

Emil Kraepelin Psychiatric methodology

Eng Seong Tan Cross-cultural psychiatry

Eric R. Kandel Molecular basis for memory

Eugene Bleuler Diagnostic criteria for schizophrenia

Eugene Paykel Social psychiatry

Eve Johnstone Brain changes in schizophrenia

Franco Basaglia Antipsychiatry

Frantz Fanon Effects of discrimination

Fuller Torrey Treatment of schizophrenia

Harry Stack Sullivan Interpersonal psychiatry

Ian Brockington Nosological pioneer

Ian Oswald Sleep research

Irvin Yalom Group psychotherapy

Ivan Pavlov Conditioning

Jack Barchas Biological basis of schizophrenia

Jacob Moreno Psychodrama and Group Psychotherapy

Jean Etienne Esquirol Descriptive psychopathology, postnatal depression

John Batty Tuke Neuroscientist

John Bowlby Attachment behaviour

John Cade Lithium therapy

John Nemiah Psychotherapy

Julius Wagner-Jauregg Treatment of GPI

Karen Horney Womb envy

Karl Jaspers Phenomenology

Karl Leonhard Classification of Psychosis, cycloid psychosis

Kurt Schneider Diagnostic criteria

Ladislas von Meduna Pharmacoconvulsions

Leo Kanner Autism

Leon Eisenberg Psychiatric anthropology

Martin Roth Psychogeriatrics

Max Hamilton Depression and anxiety scales

Maxwell Jones Therapeautic community

Michael Rutter Child psychiatry

Michael Shepherd Psychiatric epidemiology

Milton Erickson Hypnosis

Ming Tsuang Psychiatric genetics

Mogens Schou Lithium therapy

Nancy C. Andreasen Schizophrenia

Norman Krietman Psychiatric epidemiology

Otto Kernberg Psychoanalysis

Paul Watzlawick Communication theory of mental health

Peter McGuffin Psychiatric genetics

Peter Sifneos Psychotherapy

Philippe Pinel Psychiatric treatment

Pierre Deniker Chlorpromazine

Pierre Janet Dissociation

R. D. Laing Antipsychiatry

Richard von Krafft-Ebbing Sexuality

Robert Spitzer Diagnostic criteria

Robin Murray Schizophrenia

Seymour Kety Psychiatric genetics

Sigmund Freud Psychoanalysis

Sir Aubrey Lewis Nosology

Solomon H. Snyder Neurotransmitters

Sula Wolff Stress in children

Thomas Szasz Antipsychiatry

Tim Crow Biological basis of schizophrenia

Ugo Cerletti Electroconvulsive therapy

W. H. R. Rivers Psychiatric anthropologist

Wilfred Bion Psychoanalysis and group therapy

William Glasser Reality therapy, Choice theory