Timeline of psychotherapy

This article is a compiled timeline of psychotherapy. A more general description of the development of the subject of psychology can be found in the history of psychology article. Likewise, a more general review of important events in the development of psychology can be found in the timeline of psychology article.

Antiquity

* ca. 1550 BCE - Ancient Egyptians codified their knowledge of psychiatry, medicine, and surgery in the Ebers Papyrus and the Edwin Smith Papyrus. The former mentioned dementia and depression, while the latter gave detailed instructions for various neurosurgical procedures. The power of magic (suggestion) was recognized as complementary to medicine.
* ca. 500 BCE - Siddhartha Gautama founded the psychotherapeutic practices of Buddhism on the principle that the origin of mental suffering is ignorance, that the symptoms of ignorance are attachment and craving, and that attachment and craving can be ended by following the Eightfold Path.
* ca. 400 BCE - Hippocrates taught that melancholia (depression) has a biological cause, namely an excess of black bile, one of the four humours. Ancient Greek therapy for disorders of mood involved adjustment of the humours, to bring them into balance.
* ca. 300 BCE - Composition of the Huangdi Neijing began in China. This medical work emphasized the relationship between organs and emotions, and formalized the theory of Qi (life-force) and the balancing of the primal forces of Yin and Yang.

Middle Ages

8th century

*705 - The first psychiatric hospitals and insane asylums were set up by Muslim physicians in Baghdad, Iraq.Ibrahim B. Syed PhD, "Islamic Medicine: 1000 years ahead of its times", "Journal of the International Society for the History of Islamic Medicine", 2002 (2): 2-9 [7-8] ]
*700s - Psychiatric hospitals were introduced to Fes, Morocco.

9th century

*800 - Psychiatric hospitals were introduced to Cairo, Egypt.
*ca. 850 - Al-Kindi (Alkindus) developed the use of psychotherapy and music therapy in treating mentally ill patients.cite web |url=http://www.muslimheritage.com/uploads/Music2.pdf |title=The Arab Contribution to the Music of the Western World |accessdate=2007-01-12 |format=PDF |author= Saoud, R]
*ca. 850 - Ali ibn Sahl Rabban al-Tabari developed the idea of using clinical psychiatry to treat mentally ill patients.Amber Haque (2004), "Psychology from Islamic Perspective: Contributions of Early Muslim Scholars and Challenges to Contemporary Muslim Psychologists", "Journal of Religion and Health" 43 (4): 357-377 [361] ]

10th century

*ca. 900 - The concepts of mental health or "mental hygiene" were introduced by Ahmed ibn Sahl al-Balkhi. He also recognized that illnesses can have both psychological and/or physiological causes.Nurdeen Deuraseh and Mansor Abu Talib (2005), "Mental health in Islamic medical tradition", "The International Medical Journal" 4 (2), p. 76-79.]
*ca. 900 - Psychotherapy was developed by al-Razi (Rhazes), who was at one time the chief physician of the Baghdad hospital. He first recognized the concept of "psychotherapy" and referred to it as "al-‘ilaj al-nafs". [Citation |first=Amber |last=Haque |year=2004 |title=Psychology from Islamic Perspective: Contributions of Early Muslim Scholars and Challenges to Contemporary Muslim Psychologists |journal=Journal of Religion and Health |volume=43 |issue=4 |pages=357-377 [376] ]

11th century

*1025 - In "The Canon of Medicine", Avicenna recognized 'physiological psychology' in the treatment of illnesses involving emotions, and developed a system for associating changes in the pulse rate with inner feelings, which is seen as an anticipation of the word association test.Ibrahim B. Syed PhD, "Islamic Medicine: 1000 years ahead of its times", "Journal of the International Society for the History of Islamic Medicine", 2002 (2), p. 2-9 [7] .] He also described a number of neuropsychiatric conditions, including hallucination, insomnia, mania, nightmare, melancholia, dementia, epilepsy, paralysis, stroke, vertigo and tremor. [S Safavi-Abbasi, LBC Brasiliense, RK Workman (2007), "The fate of medical knowledge and the neurosciences during the time of Genghis Khan and the Mongolian Empire", "Neurosurgical Focus" 23 (1), E13, p. 3.]

12th century

*ca. 1150 - Ibn Zuhr (Avenzoar) gave the first accurate descriptions on certain neurological disorders such as meningitis, intracranial thrombophlebitis, and mediastinal germ cell tumors.Martin-Araguz, A.; Bustamante-Martinez, C.; Fernandez-Armayor, Ajo V.; Moreno-Martinez, J. M. (2002). "Neuroscience in al-Andalus and its influence on medieval scholastic medicine", "Revista de neurología" 34 (9), p. 877-892.]
*ca. 1150 - Averroes suggested the existence of Parkinson's disease.

13th century

*ca. 1200 - Maimonides wrote about neuropsychiatric disorders and described rabies and belladonna intoxication.
*1270 - Famous psychiatric hospitals were built in Damascus and Aleppo in Syria.

15th century

* 1403 The Bethlem Royal Hospital of London, ("Bedlam") (established as a hospital in 1330) admitted its first mentally ill patients. The care amounted to little more than restraint.

16th century

*1567 - Paracelsus' "Von den Krankeiten" was posthumously published, introducing his clinical system of psychotherapy.

Eighteenth century

1770s

* 1770 - Johann Joseph Gassner initiated a therapeutic practice using a precursor of hypnotherapy and exorcism.
* 1774 - Franz Mesmer described the therapeutic properties of "animal magnetism" (hypnotherapy), and began a clinical practice.

1780s

* 1785 - Marquis de Puységur founded the "Société Harmonique des Amis Réunis" to train specialists in Mesmerism (hypnotherapy).

1790s

* 1793 - Jean-Baptiste Pussin, working with Philippe Pinel, began releasing incarcerated mental patients from chains and iron shackles in the first movement for the humane treatment of the mentally ill.

Nineteenth century

1800s

* 1801 - Philippe Pinel published the first psychological approach to the treatment of the insane. The work appeared in English translation in 1806, as "Treatise on Insanity".

1810s

* 1813 - Abbé Faria identified the central role of suggestion in "animal magnetism" (hypnotherapy).

1820s

* 1826 - Justinus Kerner began treatment of patients with a combination of "animal magnetism" (hypnotherapy) and exorcism.

1870s

* 1870 - Jean-Martin Charcot began clinical research into hysteria (conversion disorder) at the Salpêtrière Hospital in Paris.

1880s

* 1884 - Jean-Martin Charcot explained demonic possession as a form of hysteria (conversion disorder), to be treated with hypnotherapy.
* 1885 - Pierre Janet began therapeutic practice and research in Le Havre.
* 1886 - Sigmund Freud began therapeutic practice and research in Vienna.

1890s

* 1892 - Foundation of the American Psychological Association (APA), headed by G. Stanley Hall.
* 1896 - Development of the first psychological clinic at the University of Pennsylvania, marking the birth of clinical psychology.

Twentieth century

1900s

* 1900 - Sigmund Freud published "Interpretation of Dreams", marking the beginning of Psychoanalytic Thought.
* 1906 - The Journal of Abnormal Psychology founded by Morton Prince.

1910s

* 1911 - Alfred Adler left Freud's Psychoanalytic Group to form his own school of thought, Individual Psychology, accusing Freud of overemphasizing sexuality and basing his theory on his own childhood.
* 1913 - Carl Jung departed from Freudian views and developed his own theories citing Freud's inability to acknowledge religion and spirituality. His new school of thought became known as Analytical Psychology.
* 1913 - Jacob L. Moreno applied Group Psychotherapy methods in Vienna. His methods, which emphasized spontaneity and interaction, later became known as Psychodrama and Sociometry.

1920s

* 1921 - Jacob L. Moreno conducted the first large scale public Psychodrama session at the Komoedienhaus, Vienna. He moved to New York in 1925.

1930s

* 1933 - Wilhelm Reich published his influential book "Character Analysis".
* 1936 - Karen Horney began her critique of Freudian psychoanalytic theory with the publication of "Feminine Psychology".

1940s

* 1942 - Carl Rogers published "Counseling and Psychotherapy", suggesting that respect and a non-judgmental approach to therapy is the foundation for effective treatment of mental health issues.
* 1943 - Albert Hofmann writes his first report about the hallucinogenic properties of LSD, which he first synthesized in 1938. LSD was practiced as a therapeutic drug throughout the 1950s and 1960s.
* 1945 - The Journal of Clinical Psychology founded.
* 1949 - Boulder Conference outlined the scientist-practitioner model of clinical psychology, looking at the M.D. versus Ph.D. used by medical providers and researchers, respectively.

1950s

* 1951 - Carl Rogers published his major work, "Client-Centered Therapy".
* 1951 The seminal work of "Gestalt Therapy: Excitement and Growth in the Human Personality" is published, co-authored by Fritz Perls, Paul Goodman, and Ralph Hefferline.
* 1952 - The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) was published by The American Psychiatric Association marking the beginning of modern mental illness classification.
* 1953 - B.F. Skinner outlined behavioral therapy, lending support for behavioral psychology via research in the literature.
* 1953 - [http://www.apa.org/ethics/code.html Code of Ethics for Psychologists] developed by the American Psychological Association.
* 1954 - Abraham Maslow helped to found Humanistic psychology and later developed his famous Hierarchy of Needs.
* 1957 - Albert Ellis began teaching the methods of Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy.

1960s

* 1960 - Thomas Szasz inaugurated the anti-psychiatry movement with the publication of his book, "The Myth of Mental Illness".
* 1960 - R. D. Laing published "The Divided Self" which saw mental illness as an expression or communication of the individual and so represented valid descriptions of lived experience or reality rather than as symptoms of some separate or underlying disorder.
* 1962 - The Esalen Institute founded at Big Sur California , acting as a focus for the development of many branches of Humanistic psychology.
* 1967 - Aaron Beck published a psychological model of depression, suggesting that thoughts play a significant role in the development and maintenance of depression.
* 1968 - DSM II published by the American Psychiatric Association.
* 1968 - First Doctor of Psychology (Psy.D.) professional degree program in Clinical Psychology established in the Department of Psychology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
* 1969 - California School of Professional Psychology established as first freestanding school of professional psychology.
* 1969 - Joseph Wolpe published "The Practice of Behavior Therapy".

1970s

* 1970 - Arthur Janov published his book "The Primal Scream", which outlined his theory of the trauma-based Primal therapy.
* 1971 - Vladimir Bukovsky documented the psychiatric imprisonment of sane political prisoners in the USSR.

1980s

* 1980 - DSM III published by the American Psychiatric Association.

1990s

* 1990 - Michael White and David Epston publish [http://www.wwnorton.com/NPB/nppsych/700984.html "Narrative Means to Therapeutic Ends"] , the first major text in what later comes to be known as narrative therapy.
* 1994 - DSM IV (The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders) published by the American Psychiatric Association.

Twenty-first century

2000s

* 2000 - The DSM-IV-TR, was published in May 2000 in order to correct several errors in DSM-IV, and to update and change diagnostic codes to reflect the ICD-9-CM coding system.

ee also

* Psychotherapy
* Timeline of psychology

Notes

References

* "The Discovery of the Unconscious: The History and Evolution of Dynamic Psychiatry", by Henri Ellenberger. New York: Basic Books, 1970.
* [http://allpsych.com/timeline.html AllPsyc Online]