Guze, Samuel Barry — (pronounced [Goo ZAY]) (1923–2000) Born in New York City, in 1945 Guze earned his M.D. at Washington University in St. Louis. He trained in internal medicine at Barnes Hospital (one of the teaching hospitals of Washington University) and … Historical dictionary of Psychiatry
Hysteria — In 1802, Paris psychiatrist Jean Baptiste Louyer Villermay (1775–1837), in an essay differentiating hypochondria from hysteria, described a young female patient, uncertain about romance, who, at the sight of her loved one fainted, uttering… … Historical dictionary of Psychiatry
Hysteria-Psychosomatic-Somatization — In 1802, Paris psychiatrist Jean Baptiste Louyer Villermay (1775–1837), in an essay differentiating hypochondria from hysteria, described a young female patient, uncertain about romance, who, at the sight of her loved one fainted, uttering… … Historical dictionary of Psychiatry
C. Robert Cloninger — Born April 4, 1944(1944 04 04) Beaumont, TX … Wikipedia
St. Louis School of Psychiatry — (at Washington University in St. Louis) (from 1942). The St. Louis school of psychiatry is significant because it introduced biological thinking into American psychiatry at a time when the prestigious teaching institutions were all… … Historical dictionary of Psychiatry
Slater, Eliot Trevor Oakeshott — (1904–1983) One of the founders of psychiatric genetics, Slater was born in London, his father a schoolmaster and his mother, Violet Oakeshott Slater, a painter. He studied medicine at Cambridge, then in 1927–1930 was a house officer at St … Historical dictionary of Psychiatry
Criminality and Psychiatry — In his novel East of Eden (1952), John Steinbeck wrote of the character Cathy Ames: It is my belief that Cathy Ames was born with the tendencies, or lack of them, which drove and forced her all of her life. Some balance wheel was… … Historical dictionary of Psychiatry
Depression: Recent Concepts — Starting in the middle third of the twentieth century, the diagnosis of depression increased many fold. Though some of this increase was owing to the systematic marketing of the diagnosis by pharmaceutical companies, other elements of the… … Historical dictionary of Psychiatry
Depression and Mood Disorders: Recent Concepts — Starting in the middle third of the twentieth century, the diagnosis of depression increased many fold. Though some of this increase was owing to the systematic marketing of the diagnosis by pharmaceutical companies, other elements of the… … Historical dictionary of Psychiatry
DSM — : Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders American Psychiatric Association (from 1952). (See also St. Louis School of Psychiatry ; Spitzer, Robert L..) This series of diagnostic handbooks, coming from a country that was not… … Historical dictionary of Psychiatry
