1927 FREUD, Anna (1895 – 1982)
Einführung in die Technik der Kinderanalyse.
Daughter of Sigmund Freud, Anna Freud made the psychoanalysis of children her own province. This is probably the most famous classic of child analysis.
GMN 4990.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6484
1927 ROST, Hans (1877 – 1970)
Bibliographie des Selbstmords mit textlichen Einführungen zu Jedem Kapitel.
Approaches the literature of suicide from many points of view including philosophical, medical, psychological, religious, literary, and artistic, as well as topics like family suicide, mass suicide and euthanasia, fro…
GMN 7698 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9870
1928 CRITCHLEY, MacDonald (1900 – 1997); KLÜVER, Heinrich (1897 – 1979)
Mescal: The "divine" plant and its psychological effects. With an introduction by Macdonald Critchley.
The first study of the psychological effects of mescaline.
GMN 8796 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10974
1929 ZERFAS, Leon Grotius (1897 – 1978); ET AL
Induction of anesthesia in man by intravenous injection of sodium isoamyl-ethyl barbiturate.
Sodium amytal (Amobarbitol). With J. T. C. McCallum, H. A. Shonle, E. E. Swanson, J. B. Scott, and G. H. A. Clowes.
GMN 5712 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6428
1930 LAIGNEL-LAVASTINE, Paul-Marie Maxime (1875 – 1953); VINCHON, Jean
Les malades de l’esprit et leurs médecins du XVIe siècle. Les étapes des connaissances psychiatriques de la Renaissance à Pinel.
GMN 5010 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6584
1930 SEMELAIGNE, René (1855 – 1934)
Les pionniers de la psychiatrie française avant et après Pinel. 2 vols.
A history of French psychiatry from Fernel to the end of the 19th century, focused around the work of each pioneer. Semelaigne was the great grand-nephew of Pinel.
GMN 5012 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6587
1930 ALLES, Gordon A. (1901 – 1963)
Clinical observations on phenylethanolamine sulfate.
In 1929 Alles discovered the sympathomimetic properties of beta-phenyl-isopropylamine (amphetamine). With G. Piness and H. Miller.
GMN 7918 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10091
1931 SEN, Ganneth; BOSE, Katrick Chandra
Rauwolfia serpentina, a new Indian drug for insanity and high blood pressure.
Introduction of reserpine in the treatment of psychoses.
GMN 4959 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6306
1931 BURTON, Robert (1577 – 1640); JORDAN-SMITH, Paul (1885 – 1971)
Bibliographia Burtoniana: A study of Robert Burton's The Anatomy of Melancholy, with a bibliography of Burton's Writings
GMN 11250 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13447
1933 CHOPRA, Ram Nath (1882 – 1973); ET AL
The pharmacological action of an alkaloid obtained from Rauwolfia serpentina Benth. A preliminary note.
R. N. Chopra, J. C. Gupta, and B. Mukherjee demonstrated the sedative and hypotensive effect of an alkaloid isolated from Rauwolfia serpentina (reserpine).
GMN 1923 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2706
1934 SAKEL, Manfred Joshua (1900 – 1957)
Schizophreniebehandlung mittels Insulin-Hypoglykämie sowie hypoglykämischer Schocks.
Insulin shock therapy of schizophrenia. Sakel wrote several subsequent papers on this subject in the same journal. English version in Amer. J. Psychiat., 1937, 93, 829-41.
GMN 4960 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6311
1935 MEDUNA, Ladislas Joseph (1896 – 1964)
Versuche über die biologische Beeinflussung des Ablaufes der Schizophrenic. 1. Campher-und Cardiazolkrämpfe.
Cardiazol (metrazol) convulsion therapy of schizophrenia was introduced by Meduna in 1934.
GMN 4961 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6315
1935 KANNER, Leo (1894 – 1981)
Child psychiatry.
Leo Kanner, an Austrian émigré and medical graduate of the University of Berlin, founded the first academic department of child psychiatry under the direction of Adolf Meyer at the Johns Hopkins Hospital. Kanner was t…
GMN 8894 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11072
1936 MYERSON, Abraham (1881 – 1948)
Effect of Benzedrine sulfate on mood and fatigue in normal and neurotic persons.
Myerson, an American neurologist, psychiatrist, clinician, pathologist, and researcher, funded by Benedrine manufacturer Smith, Kline and French, promoted Benzedrine (i.e. amphetamine) as an anti-depressant, leading t…
GMN 7919 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10092
1936 CASTETTER, Edward Franklin (1896 – 1978); OPLER, Morris Edward (1907 – 1996)
The ethnobiology of the Chiricahua and Mescalero Apache: A. the use of plants for food, beverages and narcotics. Ethnobiological studies in the American Southwest, Vol. 3. Biological series (Vol. 4, No. 5); Bulletin, University of New Mexico, whole, (No. 297).
GMN 9304 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11486
1936 KANNER, Leo (1894 – 1981)
Rumination number. Historical notes on rumination in man. The first historical monograph on the subject.
The first historical monograph on rumination syndrome or merycism.
GMN 10640 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12833
1937 BRADLEY, Charles (1902 – 1979)
Behavior of children receiving benzedrine.
Bradley showed that racemic amphetamine, that is, the 50:50 mixture of d- and l-amphetamine isomers (Benzedrine®), was shown to reduce the impulsivity, distractibility, and inattention characteristic of Attention Defi…
GMN 7980 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10156
1938 CERLETTI, Ugo (1877 – 1963); BINI, Lucio (1908 – 1964)
Un nuovo metodo di shockterapia: “L’elettroshock”. (Riassunto.)
Introduction of electric convulsion therapy.
GMN 4962 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6322
1940 BENNETT, Abram Elting (1898 – ); PURDY, Avis B.
Psychiatric nursing technic.
GMN 13073 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15325
1941 ZILBOORG, Gregory (1890 – 1959); HENRY, George William (1889 – )
A history of medical psychology.
GMN 5013 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6592
1943 STOLL, Arthur (1887 – 1971); HOFMANN, Albert (1906 – 2008)
Partialsynthese von Alkaloiden vom Typus des Ergobasins.
Synthesis of lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD).
GMN 1928.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2727
1943 KANNER, Leo (1894 – 1981)
Autistic disturbances of affective contact.
The first description of “early infantile autism” as a disorder marked by extreme detachment, self-isolation, inability to form relationships, frequent failure to acquire communicative abilities, and preoccupation wit…
GMN 7625 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9797
1943 HOLMES, Oliver Wendell Sr. (1809 – 1894); OBERNDORF, Clarence Paul (1882 – 1954)
The psychiatric novels of Oliver Wendell Holmes
A classically trained Freudian psychoanalyst reviewed the psychiatric insights - advanced for his time - that Holmes expressed in his novels.
GMN 11259 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13456
1944 ASPERGER, Hans (1906 – 1980)
Die "Autistischen Psychopathen" im Kindesalter.
Early infantile autism (Asperberger's syndrome).
GMN 7626 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9798
1949 CADE, John Frederick Joseph (1912 – 1980)
Lithium salts in the treatment of psychotic excitement.
The first clinical trial of lithium.
GMN 1930.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2748
1949 PENROSE, Lionel Sharples (1898 – 1972)
The biology of mental defect.
GMN 4962.2 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6328
1949 DEUTSCH, Albert (1905 – 1961)
The mentally ill in America. A history of their care and treatment from colonial times. Second edition, revised and enlarged.
GMN 5015.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6600
1951 DEVEREUX, George (1908 – 1985)
Reality and dream: Psychotherapy of a plains Indian.
GMN 9732 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11919
1952 MÜLLER, J. M.; ET AL
Reserpin, der sedative Wirkstoff aus Rauwolfia serpentina Benth.
Isolation of reserpine. With E. Schlittler and H. J. Bein.
GMN 1931 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2750
1952 DELAY, Jean (1907 – 1987); DENIKER, Pierre (1917 – 1998)
Trente-huit cas de psychoses traitées par la cure prolongée et continue de 4560 R. P. C. R. Congr. Alien, et Neurol, de Langue Franç.
Introduction of chlorpromazine in the treatment of psychosis. Chlorpromazine was later marketed in the United States as Thorazine.
GMN 4962.3 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6332
1952 COMMITTEE ON NOMENCLATURE AND STATISTICS, AMERICAN PSYCHIATRIC ASSOCIATION
Diagnostic and statistical manual: Mental disorders with special supplement on plans for revision.
The first edition was known as DSM-1; DSM-5 was published in 2013.
GMN 13047 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15298
1953 COURVOISIER, Simone; ET AL
Propriétés pharmacodynamiques du chlorhydrate de chloro-3 (diméthylamino-3’propyl) -10 phénothiazine (4.560 R.P.).
Chlorpromazine. With J. Foumel, R. Ducrot, M. Kolsky, and P. Koetschet. Chloropromazine was later marketed in the United States as Thorazine.
GMN 1931.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2752
1954 BERGER, Frank Milan (1913 – 2008)
The pharmacological properties of 2-methyl-2-m-propyl-1, 3-propanediol dicarbamate (Miltown), a new interneuronal blocking agent.
Introduction of meprobamate, later used for the treatment of anxiety. Miltown was the first widely prescribed psychotropic drug.
GMN 4962.4 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6335
1954 MEIER, R; GROSS, F; TRIPOD, J
Ritalin, a new synthetic compound with specific analeptic components.
The authors identified Methylphenidate as a stimulant. It is sold under the trade name Ritalin, and other names.
GMN 7981 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10157
1960 RANDALL, Lowell Orlando (1910 – 2005); ET AL
The psychosedative properties of methaminodiazepoxide.
Librium. With four co-authors.
GMN 1931.3 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2756
1960 ABRAMSON, Harold Alexander (1899 – 1980)
The use of LSD in psychotherapy: Transactions of a conference of D-Lysergic Acid Diethymlamide (LSD-25), April 22, 23 and 24, 1959, Princeton, N. J. Edited by Harold A. Abramson.
GMN 13748 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/16032
1961 LEIGH, Archibald Denis (1915 – 1998)
The historical development of British psychiatry. Vol. 1. (All published.)
GMN 5019.2 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6615
1961 LIFTON, Robert Jay (1926 – )
Thought reform and the psychology of totalism. A study of "brainwashing" in China.
GMN 8866 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11044
1961 FOUCAULT, Paul-Michel (Michel Foucault) (1926 – 1984)
Folie et déraison: Histoire de la folie à l'âge classique.
Foucault's first major book, translated into English as Madness and civilization: A history of insanity in the age of reason (1964).
GMN 9946 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12134
1961 DEVEREUX, George (1908 – 1985)
Mohave ethnopsychiatry and suicide: The psychiatric knowledge and the psychic disturbances of an Indian tribe.
GMN 10855 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13051
1962 KEMPE, C. Henry (Karl Heinz Kempe) (1922 – 1984); SILVERMAN, Frederick N. (1914 – 2006); STEELE, Brandt F. (1908 – 2005); DROEGEMUELLER, William; SILVER, Henry K. (1918 – 1991)
The battered-child syndrome.
"In 1962, Dr. C. Henry Kempe and his colleagues led the identification and recognition of child abuse with the defining paper, The Battered Child Syndrome. This paper was regarded as the single most significant event …
GMN 8893 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11071
1963 HUNTER, Richard Alfred (1923 – 1981); MACALPINE, Ida (1899 – 1974)
Three hundred years of psychiatry, 1535-1860: A history presented in selected English texts.
GMN 5019.3 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6619
1963 KIELL, Norman (1916 – )
Psychoanalysis, psychology and literature: A bibliography.
Contains 4,460 references.
GMN 5019.4 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6640
1965 KNIGHT, Geoffrey Cureton (1906 – 1993)
Stereotactic tractotomy in the surgical treatment of mental illness.
GMN 4914.3 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6022
1966 ALEXANDER, Franz Gabriel (1891 – 1964); SELESNICK, Sheldon Theodore (1925 – )
The history of psychiatry: An evaluation of psychiatric thought and practice from prehistoric times to the present.
GMN 5019.6 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6647
1968 ROSENBERG, Charles Ernest (1936 – )
The trial of the assassin Guiteau: Psychiatry and law in the gilded age.
GMN 7928 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10101
1968 WASSON, Robert Gordon (1898 – 1986)
Soma: Divine mushroom of immortality.
Ethnomycologist and banker Wasson provided evidence for the important role that hallucinogenic mushrooms - in particular the ubiquitous mushroom Amanita muscaria (fly agaric) - play in various ancient and modern cultu…
GMN 9848 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12036
1968 WALKER, Nigel (1917 – 2014)
Crime and insanity in England. Volume one: The historical perspective. (All published.)
GMN 11751 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13951
1969 DÖRNER, Klaus (1933 – )
Bürger und Irre. Zur Sozialgeschichte und Wissenschaftssoziologie der Psychiatrie.
GMN 7916 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10089
1969 KÜBLER-ROSS, Elisabeth (1926 – 2004)
On death and dying.
"The Kübler-Ross model - otherwise known as the five stages of grief - postulates a progression of emotional states experienced by both terminally ill patients after diagnosis and by loved-ones after a death. The five…
GMN 10041 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12230
