history of diagnostic criterias

Supernatural explanations for diagnosis and treatment of MH

• Trephination

• Yin and Yang

Hysteria

• Treated by manually inducing orgasms

• Linked to witchcraft in 1600/1700s

• Freud believed shell shock in men was also hysteria

• Specific diagnoses were replaced hysteria as a term

Karl Ludwig Kahlbaum

• Argued attempts to group mental disorders based on similarities was pointless

• Tried to develop a classification system grouping mental diseases to course and outcome

• Stressed the importance of parental upbringing to prevent juvenile madness

Emil Kraepelin

• wrote Compendium of Psychiatry in 1883

• Saw course of illness as a clue to classifications

• His ideas eventually became a textbook for students and physicians

Helen Boyle

• First woman president of the royal college of psychiatrist

• Set up The lady Chichester hospital specialising in free and low cost care for women

• First facility to offer early intervention

Eugen Bleuler

Published textbook of psychiatry

Dementia Praecox or the group of Sz

Kurt Schneider

Distinguished between form and content of disorders

Karl Jaspers

• Questioned understanding of MI and diagnostic criteria and focused on thoughts than content

• Published General Psychopathology

evolution of DSM/ICD

• after WW2 classifications were separate for navy, military, air and civilians

• APA created the DSM and published it in 1952

• The ICD-6 added psychiatric diagnoses

• The DSM and ICD became more consistent with their categories