Psychiatric
Psychiatry indicates the science and practice of treating, diagnosing, and preventing mental disorders. The term psychiatry is adapted from the Greek words psyche, meaning “mind” or “soul,” and iatreia, meaning “healing.” Before the 18th century, mental illness was commonly seen as demonic possession, but with time it came to be considered as a sickness which requires treatment. According to many the modern psychiatry was born by the efforts of French physician Philippe Pinel, which was in the late 1700s. in the same time, in the United States, statesman and physician Benjamin Rush, came up with a comparable approach. In all probability, the most significant contributions in the field was offered in the late 19th century, with the efforts of German psychiatrist Emil Kraepelin, who emphasized a systematic approach to psychiatric understanding and Austrian psychoanalyst Dr. Sigmund Freud, who with his familiarity with neuropathology, developed the famous method of psychoanalysis.