History and Concepts of Psychiatry – Student/Trainee

This course does not provide CME credit and is appropriate for students and trainees. Reduced rate provided. Please email info@psychiatryletter.com to notify us of your student/trainee status.

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The fee is for the entire course, and you will receive an email in response with the course link within 5 business days of booking. All recordings will be made available upon booking for a total of 8 sessions.

This course on History and Concepts of Psychiatry will examine conceptual and historical aspects of psychiatric theory and practice. It will review the evolution of beliefs regarding mental illnesses and their treatments, beginning in ancient Greece and moving forward into the 19th and 20th centuries. Focus will be put on central figures or ideas that have persisted to the present day, including the Hippocratic approach to medicine, the work of Emil Kraepelin, Sigmund Freud, Karl Jaspers, and others. The modern evolution of those ideas will be explored in the biopsychosocial model, the rise of DSM-III and later editions of current nosology, and the influence of cultural postmodernism in the perspectives of critics of psychiatry as well as in the psychiatric mainstream.

The learning objectives are:

  1. To analyze the conceptual assumptions underlying current psychiatric concepts such as the DSM nosology and the biopsychosocial model
  2. To identify and understand key historical aspects of psychiatry, such as the nosology of Emil Kraeplin, and the historical influence of Hippocratic concepts in medicine
  3. To explore key ideas from prior thinkers like Karl Jaspers and how they can apply to current psychiatric practice

Lectures, each about 60 minutes in duration. Current planning of lectures is as follows:

  1. Beginnings: Ancient Greece to the 19th century
  2. What is mental illness?
  3. Emil Kraepelin and the rise of biological psychiatry, Freud and the Freudians
  4. Karl Jaspers and existential psychiatry
  5. Cultural postmodernism and psychiatry
  6. The rise and fall of the biopsychosocial model
  7. Origins and failures of DSM
  8. Future possibilities

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