List of psychiatrists

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This list is of notable psychiatrists.

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Additional lists of psychiatrists can be found at the articles Famous figures in psychiatry (though not all individuals at this list are psychiatrists and medical doctors), Fictional psychiatrists, and List of physicians.

Medical doctors who are psychiatrists and included in those lists and are also listed below. Some psychiatrists are also in the list of neurologists.

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Ahmed Okasha, Egyptian, president of World Psychiatric Associationπfrom 2002 to 2005

Keith Ablow (born 1961), American television

Alfred Adler (1870–1937), individual psychology

Jill Afrin (born 1962), telepsychiatrist for deaf people

Leo Alexander (1905–1985), Austrian–American, author

Alois Alzheimer (1864–1915), German, Alzheimer's disease

Daniel Amen (born 1954), American psychiatrist and brain-disorder specialist

Nancy C. Andreasen, American, 2000 National Medal of Science recipient, professor of psychiatry at the University of Iowa College of Medicine

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Dame Susan Bailey (born 1950), British, President of the Royal College of Psychiatrists

Jack Barchas (born 1935), American, Chairman of the Department of Psychiatry, Weill Cornell Medical College

Franco Basaglia (1924–1980), Italian, mental health reformer

Peter Baumann (born 1935), Swiss, advocate for psycholytic therapy and euthanasia

Aaron T. Beck (born 1921), American, father of cognitive therapy

Vladimir Bekhterev (1857–1927), Russian, best known for noting the role of the hippocampus in memory, his study of reflexes, and Bekhterev’s disease

Eugen Bleuler (1857–1940), Swiss, named terms "schizophrenia" and "schizoid"

Manfred Bleuler, Swiss psychiatrist, son of Eugen Bleuler, research on the course of chronic schizophrenia

David C. Bradley, American, neuroscience

William Breitbart (born 1951), American, Chief of Psychiatry Service, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center

Ian Brockington (born 1935), British, researched nosology of psychiatry

John Charles Bucknill (1817–1897), British, mental health reformer

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Donald Ewen Cameron (1901–1967), Scottish born, "depatterning" and "psychic driving" CIA funded experiments, head of APA and WPA

John Cade (1912–1980), Australian, Lithium therapy research

Fiona Caldicott (born 1941), British

Patricia Casey Professor of Psychiatry at University College Dublin

Daniel Harold Casriel (1924–1983), American, creator of 'The New Identity Process' (now called Bonding Psychotherapy)

Ferdinando Cazzamalli (1887–1958), Italian, interested in paranormal and metaphysics

Anthony Clare (1942–2007), Irish

John Gordon Clark (1926–1999), American, 1991 psychiatrist of the year, Psychiatric Times

Ugo Cerletti (1877–1963), Italian neurologist, specialised in neuropsychiatry and electroconvulsive therapy

Eustace Chesser (1902–1973), Scottish

Arnold Cooper American psychoanalyst theorist, former Tobin-Cooper professor at Weill Cornell Medical College and president of the American Psychoanalytic Association

Michel Craplet, French, alcoholism specialist

John Cutting, British, also writer, specialising in schizophrenia

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Eric Cunningham Dax (1908–2008), British, specialised in shock therapy and lobotomy

Christine Dean (born 1939), British community, alternatives to psychiatric hospital treatment and human rights of people with mental health problems.

Karl Deisseroth (1971), American, neuroscientist. Known for the technologies of CLARITY and optogenetics

Mason Durie New Zealander

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Leon Eisenberg (1922–2009), American, also medical educator, first RCT in clinical child psychopharmacology, protégé of Leo Kanner, author of early articles about autism and neurodevelopmental disorders

Milton H. Erickson (1901–1980), American, founding president, American Society for Clinical Hypnosis

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Wayne Fenton (d. 2006), National Institute of Mental Health, ex-Chestnut Lodge

Eleanora Fleury (1860–1940), first female member of the Medico Psychological Association (now the Royal College of Psychiatrists)

Viktor Frankl (1905–1997), Austrian, neurologist, psychiatrist, psychologist, founder of logotherapy (The Third Viennese School of Psychotherapy)

Daniel X. Freedman (1921–1993), American, pioneer in biological psychiatry

Walter Freeman, American, office leucotomist

Sigmund Freud (1856–1939), Austrian neurologist, "the father of psychoanalysis"

Jacob H. Friedman (1905–1973), American, pioneer in geriatric psychiatry

Karl J. Friston (1959), British, neuroscientist and authority on quantitative brain imaging

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Pyotr Borisovich Gannushkin (1875-1933), Russian, author, Manifestations of Psychopathies and Notes on the Psychiatric Clinic on Devichye Pole

Lars Christopher Gillberg (born 1950), Swedish, researched on ADHD and autism

William Glasser (born 1925), American, Reality Therapy and Choice Theory

Semyon Gluzman (born 1946), Soviet and Ukrainian, whistle blower on political abuse of psychiatry in the Soviet Union

Richard Green (born 1938), American, influential work done in studying gender identity

Mikhail Gurevich (1878–1953), Russian and pioneer of Soviet child psychiatry

Samuel Guze (1923–2000), American, medical educator, and researcher

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Robert Galbraith Heath (1915–1999), American, also neurologist

Karen Horney (1885–1952), German, neo-Freudian

Henry Mills Hurd (1843–1927), American, the first director of the Johns Hopkins Hospital

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Richard Isay (1934–2012), American psychoanalyst

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Karl Jaspers (1883–1969), German, also existential philosopher

Eve Johnstone (born 1944), British, Head of Division of Psychiatry, University of Edinburgh

Carl Jung (1875–1961), Swiss, founder of analytical psychology

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Eric Richard Kandel (born 1929), American, 2000 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine

Victor Khrisanfovich Kandinsky (1849–1889), Russian, introduced the notion of pseudohallucinations and described the syndrome now known as Kandinsky-Clérambault syndrome

Boris Dmitrievich Каrvasarsky (born 1929), Russian, author, Neuroses: Textbook for Doctors and Personality-Oriented Psychotherapy

Robert Evan Kendell (1935–2002), nosology

Otto Kernberg (born 1928), psychoanalytic theoretician and clinician

Seymour S. Kety (1915–2000), American, psychiatric genetics

Sergei Sergeievich Korsakoff (1854–1900), Russian, studied alcoholic psychosis, introduced the concept of paranoia and wrote a comprehensive textbook on psychiatry

Anatoly Koryagin (born 1938), Russian, whistle blower on punitive psychiatry in the Soviet Union

Emil Kraepelin (1856–1926), German, founder of modern scientific psychiatry

Charles Krauthammer (born 1950), American, Pulitzer-winning columnist, known for political commentary

Ernst Kretschmer (1888–1964), German, researched the human constitution and established a typology

David Kupfer, University of Pittsburgh, current head of DSM-5

Arnold Kutzinski (d. 1956), German psychiatrist and neurologist, outspoken critic of psychoanalysis

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Ronald David Laing (1927–1989), Scottish, antipsychiatry

Karl Leonhard (1904–1988), German, nosology

Saul V. Levine (born 1938), Canadian, author, Radical Departures: Desperate Detours to Growing Up

Aubrey Lewis (1900–1975), Australian born, Clinical Director of the Maudsley Hospital, pivoltal influence on British psychiatry

Andrey Yevgenyevich Lichko (1926–1996), Russian, vice principal of Saint-Petersburg Psychoneurological Institute n.a. V.M. Bekhterev, author, Adolescent Psychiatry, Psychopathy and Accentuations of Character at Teenagers, and Schizophrenia in Teenagers.

Robert Jay Lifton (born 1926), American, author, Thought Reform

Manuel Isaías López (born 1941), Mexican, bioethics

Abraham Low (1891–1954), founder of Recovery International (formerly Recovery, Inc.)

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Thomas McGlashan Professor of Psychiatry at Yale Medical School

Friedrich Meggendorfer (1880–1953), German, also neurologist, early describer of familial Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease.

Adolf Meyer (1866–1950) Swiss, past president, American Psychiatric Association

Robert Michels, American, University Professor and former Dean, Weill Cornell Medical College

Patrick McGorry, developed early psychosis model

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Conolly Norman (1886–1908), Irish, R.M.S. of the Richmond District Lunatic Asylum, Dublin, Ireland

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Humphry Osmond (1917–2004) British, known for inventing the term 'psychedelic'

Ian Oswald (born 1929) British, sleep research

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Herb Pardes, psychiatry chair and dean at Columbia University, and president, New York Presbyterian Hospital

Gordon Parker, Australian, mood disorders, in particular melancholia.

Nossrat Peseschkian (1933–2010), Iranian-German, psychiatrist, neurologist, psychotherapist, founder of Positive Psychotherapy

Issy Pilowsky Australian, abnormal illness behaviour

Philippe Pinel (1745–1826) French, father of modern psychiatry

M. Scott Peck (1936–2005) American, love and spiritual growth

Sir Desmond Arthur Pond (1919–1986) British, Chief Scientist at Department of Health and Social Security

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John Rawlings Rees (1890–1969), British, military psychiatry and mind control

W. H. R. Rivers (1864–1922), British, psychiatric anthropology

Hermann Rorschach (1884–1922), Swiss, also psychoanalyst, Rorschach inkblot test

Prof. Gerald Russell (born 1928), British

Sir Michael Rutter, British

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Manfred Sakel (1900–1957), Austrian, inventor of insulin shock therapy

William Sargant (1907–1988), British, False memory syndrome

Daniel Schechter (born 1962), American, researches effects of maternal post-traumatic stress on the mother-child relationship

Kurt Schneider (1887–1967), German, schizophrenia research

David Shaffer (born 1936), South African, child and adolescent psychiatrist, suicide researcher, epidemiologist

Michael Sharpe, British, psychiatric aspects of medical illness

Michael Shepherd (1923–1995), British, Epidemiological Psychiatry

Vladimir Petrovich Serbsky (1858–1917), Russian, author, The Forensic Psychopathology

Volkmar Sigusch, German, also psychologist

Victor Skumin, Russian, Skumin syndrome, also psychologist

Andrei Vladimirovich Snezhnevsky (1904–1987), Russian, introduced the term of sluggishly progressing schizophrenia

Solomon Halbert Snyder, neurotransmitters

Robert Spitzer American, chair, Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM–III), 1980

Hans Steiner, leading advocate of the developmental psychopathology and psychiatry

Daniel Stern (1934–2012), American, leading infant observation and parenting researcher, theorist, author

Kerry Sulkowicz, American, psychology of corporate management

Cedric Howell Swanton (1899–1970), Australian, electroconvulsive therapy

Thomas Szasz (1920–2012), American, critic of conventional psychiatry

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Daniel Hack Tuke (1827–1895), English alienist, descendended from the Tuke family of the York Retreat, co-author with John Charles Bucknill of the Manual of Psychological Medicine, editor of the Dictionary of Psychological Medicine, editor of the Journal of Mental Science.

E. Fuller Torrey (born 1937), American, schizophrenia

Gordon Turnbull, Scottish, posttraumatic stress disorder

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Vamık Volkan (born 1932) Turkish-Cypriot, political psychiatry

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Estela V. Welldon, Argentine-born British Forensic Psychotherapist; founder, International Association of Forensic Psychotherapy

Simon Wessely, British, epidemiology, general hospital and combat psychiatry

Louis Jolyon West (1924–1999), American, Civil rights activist

Sula Wolff (1924–2009), British, stress in children, schizoid personality

Peter C. Whybrow British, also researcher in bio-behavioral sciences.

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Irvin D. Yalom (born 1931) American, researcher into group psychotherapy and existential psychotherapy at Stanford University

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Charles H. Zeanah (born 1951) American, Leading infant psychiatrist, attachment researcher, author

References

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