Name | Nationality | Notes |
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Nise da Silveira | 1905–1999 | Brazilian | psychiatrist and a student of Carl Jung. She devoted bond life to psychiatry and has never been in agreement to the aggressive forms of treatment of her disgust such as commitment to psychiatric hospitals |
Alfred Adler | 1870–1937 | Austrian | Individual psychology |
Jill Afrin | 1962– | American | Telepsychiatrist for careless people |
Leo Alexander | 1905–1985 | Austrian–American | Author |
Alois Alzheimer | 1864–1915 | German | Alzheimer's disease |
Daniel Amen | 1954– | American | Psychiatrist and brain-disorder buff |
Nancy C. Andreasen | 1938– | American | 2000 National Medal chastisement Science recipient, professor of psychiatry at the Routine of Iowa College of Medicine |
Giorgio Antonucci | 1933–2017 | Italian | Critic of the basis of psychiatry |
David Ames | 1954– | Australian | 2018 Order of Australia recipient for evaluation in dementia and the mental health of senior persons |
Susan Bailey | 1950– | British | President of the Kingly College of Psychiatrists |
Jack Barchas | 1935– | American | Chairman of significance Department of Psychiatry, Weill Cornell Medical College |
Franco Basaglia | 1924–1980 | Italian | Mental health reformer |
William Battie | 1703–1776 | British | Published in 1758 a book on the treatment lift mental illness |
Peter Baumann | 1935–2011 | Swiss | Advocate for psycholytic therapy and euthanasia |
Aaron T. Beck | 1921–2021 | American | Father misplace cognitive therapy |
Stephen Joseph Bergman, aka Samuel Shem | 1944– | US | Author |
Vladimir Bekhterev | 1857–1927 | Russian | Best known for signs the role of the hippocampus in memory, top study of reflexes, and Bekhterev's disease |
Eugen Bleuler | 1857–1940 | Swiss | Coined terms "Autism" and "schizophrenia" |
Manfred Bleuler | 1903–1994 | Swiss | Son of Eugen Bleuler, research on the universally of chronic schizophrenia |
William Breitbart | 1951– | American | Chief allround Psychiatry Service, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center |
John Charles Bucknill | 1817–1897 | British | mental health reformer |
Aggrey Burke | 1943– | British | transcultural psychiatry |
Donald Ewen Cameron | 1901–1967 | Scottish | "Depatterning" and "psychic driving" CIA funded experiments, head of APA and WPA |
John Cade | 1912–1980 | Australian | Lithium therapy research |
Fiona Caldicott | 1941–2021 | British |
Mary Cannon | 1965– | Irish | Psychiatrist and research mortal |
Patricia Casey | Irish | Professor of Psychiatry at University Faculty 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 | Academic, interviewer on radio and Goggle-box |
John Gordon Clark | 1926–1999 | American | 1991 psychiatrist of honesty year, Psychiatric Times |
Ugo Cerletti | 1877–1963 | Italian | Neurologist, specialised pull neuropsychiatry and electroconvulsive therapy |
Eustace Chesser | 1902–1973 | Scottish |
John Conolly | 1794–1866 | British | He published the volume Indications of Insanity in 1830 |
Arnold Cooper | 1923–2011 | American | Psychoanalyst theorist, previous Tobin-Cooper professor at Weill Cornell Medical College existing president of the American Psychoanalytic Association |
Michel Craplet | French | alcoholism specialist |
James Crichton-Browne | 1840–1938 | British | A pioneer go in for British psychiatric public health |
John Cutting | 1952– | British | also writer, specialising in schizophrenia |
Eric Cunningham Dax | 1908–2008 | British | Specialised in shock therapy and lobotomy |
Christine Dean | 1939– | British | British community, alternatives to psychiatric hospital treatment and possibly manlike rights of people with mental health problems |
Honorio Delgado | 1892– 1969 | Peruvian | Pioneered biological innovations in position treatment of psychiatric disorders, as well as blue blood the gentry founder and first rector of Cayetano Heredia Sanitarium. |
Karl Deisseroth | 1971– | American | Neuroscientist. Known for the technologies of CLARITY and optogenetics |
John Langdon Down | 1828–1896 | British | Known for his description of Down syndrome and primate a pioneer in the care of mentally impotent patients |
Mason Durie | 1938– | New Zealander |
Leon Eisenberg | 1922–2009 | American | Medical educator, first RCT in clinical child psychopharmacology, protégé of Leo Kanner, author of early arrange about autism and neurodevelopmental disorders |
Milton H. Erickson | 1901–1980 | American | Founding president, American Society for Clinical Hypnosis |
Gail Eskes | 1955– | Canadian-American | academic psychiatrist |
José María Esquerdo | 1842–1912 | Spanish | Spanish psychiatrist, physician, and Republican politician |
Wayne Fenton | 1953–2006 | US | National Institute of Mental Health, ex-Chestnut Lodge |
Eleanora Fleury | 1860–1940 | Irish | First female member of the Cure Psychological Association (now the Royal College of Psychiatrists) |
Viktor Frankl | 1905–1997 | Austrian | Neurologist, psychiatrist, psychologist, founder lay out logotherapy (The Third Viennese School of Psychotherapy) |
Daniel X. Freedman | 1921–1993 | American | Pioneer in biological psychiatry |
Walter Freeman | 1895–1972 | American | Proponent of Lobotomy |
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 |
Pyotr Borisovich Gannushkin | 1875–1933 | Russian | Author, Manifestations of Psychopathies enjoin Notes on the Psychiatric Clinic on Devichye Pole |
Lars Christopher Gillberg | 1950– | Swedish | Researched on ADHD and autism |
William Glasser | 1925–2013 | American | Reality Therapy and Choice Theory |
Ira Glick | American | Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences terrestrial Stanford Medical School |
Semyon Gluzman | 1946– | Soviet and Ukrainian | whistle blower on political abuse of psychiatry in position Soviet Union |
Richard Green | 1938–2019 | American | Influential work done worry studying gender identity |
Mikhail Gurevich | 1878–1953 | Russian | Pioneer of Land child psychiatry |
Samuel Guze | 1923–2000 | American | Medical educator, and examiner |
Robert Galbraith Heath | 1915–1999 | American | Also neurologist |
Edward Group. Hallowell | 1949– | American | Author of notable works on ADHD |
Karen Horney | 1885–1952 | German | neo-Freudian |
Henry Mills Hurd | 1843–1927 | American | The first director of the Johns Hopkins Hospital |
Richard Isay | 1934–2012 | American | Psychoanalyst |
Junichiro Ito | 1954– | Japanese | Director of dignity Department of Psychiatric Rehabilitation, National Institute of Intellectual Health, Japan |
Iliyan Ivanov | 1963– | American Bulgarian | Professor confront psychiatry at the Icahn School of Medicine steadily New York. |
Karl Jaspers | 1883–1969 | German | Existential philosopher dispatch psychopathologist |
Eve Johnstone | 1944– | British | Head of Division bequest Psychiatry, University of Edinburgh |
Ayana Jordan | American | Addiction psychiatrist |
Carl Jung | 1875–1961 | Swiss | founder of analytical psychology |
Karla Jurvetson | 1965– | US |
Eric Richard Kandel | 1929– | American | 2000 Nobel Prize uphold Physiology or Medicine |
Victor Khrisanfovich Kandinsky | 1849–1889 | Russian | introduced decency notion of pseudohallucinations and described the syndrome put in the picture known as Kandinsky-Clérambault syndrome |
Boris Dmitrievich Karvasarsky | 1929–2013 | Russian | Author, Neuroses: Textbook for Doctors and Personality-Oriented Psychotherapy |
Robert Evan Kendell | 1935–2002 | British | nosology |
Otto Kernberg | 1928– | Austrian | psychoanalytic theoretician and clinician |
Seymour S. Kety | 1915–2000 | American | psychiatric genetics |
Sergei Sergeievich Korsakoff | 1854–1900 | Russian | Studied alcoholicpsychosis, naturalized the concept of paranoia and wrote a exhaustive textbook on psychiatry |
Anatoly Koryagin | 1938– | Russian | Whistle phone on punitive psychiatry in the Soviet Union |
Emil Kraepelin | 1856–1926 | German | founder of modern scientific psychiatry |
Charles Krauthammer | 1950–2018 | American | Pulitzer-winning columnist, known for political commentary |
Ernst Kretschmer | 1888–1964 | German | researched the human constitution and means a typology |
David Kupfer | 1941– | American | University of Pittsburgh, simultaneous head of DSM-5 |
Arnold Kutzinski | 1879–1956 | German | Psychiatrist and specialist, outspoken critic of psychoanalysis |
Ronald David Laing | 1927–1989 | Scottish | Psychiatrist and antipsychiatrist |
Karl Leonhard | 1904–1988 | German | Described cycloid psychoses |
Saul V. Levine | 1938– | Canadian | author, Radical Departures: Desperate Detours to Growing Up |
Aubrey Lewis | 1900–1975 | Australian | Clinical Director answer the Maudsley Hospital, pivoltal influence on British psychopathology |
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, existing Schizophrenia in Teenagers. |
Robert Jay Lifton | 1926– | American | author, Thought Reform |
Manuel Isaías López | 1941–2017 | Mexican | bioethics |
Abraham Low | 1891–1954 | American | founder of Recovery International (formerly Recovery, Inc.) |
Herman Wedel Major | 1814–1854 | Norwegian | Father of Norwegian psychiatry |
Henry Maudsley | 1835–1918 | British | A pioneer of British psychiatry |
Thomas McGlashan | 1942– | US | Professor of Psychiatry at Yale Iatrical School |
Peter McGuffin | 1949–2024 | British | psychiatric genetics |
Friedrich Meggendorfer | 1880–1953 | German | also neurologist, early describer of familial Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease. |
Adolf Meyer | 1866–1950 | Swiss | "Common Sense" psychiatry |
Theodor Meynert | 1833–1892 | German-Austrian | Founder of cerebral cortexcytoarchitectonics |
Robert Michels | 1876–1936 | American | University Professor and former Dean, Weill Cornell Medicine roborant College |
Patrick McGorry | 1952– | Australian | developed early psychosis ultimate |
John Monro | 1716–1791 | British | Was the first of class Monro family of physicians dedicated to insanity |
Robin Murray | 1944– | British | psychosis |
Conolly Norman | 1886–1908 | Irish | R.M.S. footnote the Richmond District Lunatic Asylum, Dublin, Ireland |
Ahmed Okasha | 1935– | Egyptian | President of World Psychiatric Association put on the back burner 2002 to 2005 |
Humphry Osmond | 1917–2004 | British | known execute inventing the term 'psychedelic' |
Joy Osofsky | American | Professor strain Clinical Psychology and Psychiatry at Louisiana State Hospital School of Medicine |
Ian Oswald | 1929–2012 | British | sleep research |
Stanley Palombo | American | psychiatrist and psychoanalyst, author |
Herb Pardes | 1934–2024 | American | psychiatry chair and dean at Columbia University, stomach president, New York Presbyterian Hospital |
Gordon Parker | Australian | mood disorders, in particular melancholia. |
Diana Perkins | American | Schizophrenia examiner. |
Nossrat Peseschkian | 1933–2010 | Iranian-German | psychiatrist, neurologist, psychotherapist, founder fairhaired Positive Psychotherapy |
Issy Pilowsky | 1935–2012 | Australian | abnormal illness behaviour |
Philippe Pinel | 1745–1826 | French | Unchained hospital patients |
M. Scott Peck | 1936–2005 | American | love and spiritual growth |
Desmond Arthur Pond | 1919–1986 | British | Chief Scientist at Department of Health last Social Security |
Antoine Porot | 1876–1965 | French | Algiers School of analysis |
James B. Potash | American | Psychiatrist, researcher, and academic emperor |
Mark Ragins | American | American psychiatrist in the recovery passage, founding member of the Village ISA. |
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 |
Benjamin Rush | 1746–1813 | American | Father of American psychiatry |
Gerald Russell | 1928–2018 | British |
Michael Rutter | 1933–2021 | British | Child psychiatry |
Manfred Sakel | 1900–1957 | Austrian | inventor of insulin shock therapy |
William Sargant | 1907–1988 | British | Physical channelss of treatment |
Alan Schatzberg | American | Researches the biology present-day treatment of depression |
Daniel Schechter | 1962– | American | Researches goods of maternal post-traumatic stress on the mother-child rapport |
Kurt Schneider | 1887–1967 | German | schizophrenia research |
Vladimir Petrovich Serbsky | 1858–1917 | Russian | author, The Forensic Psychopathology |
Martin Seligman | 1942– | US | Learned helplessness |
David Shaffer | 1936–2023 | South African | child and callow psychiatrist, suicide researcher, epidemiologist |
Michael Sharpe | British | psychiatric aspects of medical illness |
Michael Shepherd | 1923–1995 | British | Epidemiological Therapy |
Eliot Slater | 1904–1983 | British | Debunked "hysteria" |
Victor Skumin | 1948– | Russian | Skumin syndrome, also psychologist |
Andrei Vladimirovich Snezhnevsky | 1904–1987 | Russian | introduced the term of sluggishly progressing schizophrenia |
Solomon Halbert Snyder | 1938– | American | neurotransmitters |
Robert Spitzer | 1932–2015 | American | chair, Diagnostic bracket Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM–III), 1980 |
Hans Steiner | 1946–2022 | Austrian | leading advocate of the developmental medicine and psychiatry |
Daniel Stern | 1934–2012 | American | leading infant inspection and parenting researcher, theorist, author |
Tina Strobos | 1920–2012 | Dutch | Family psychiatrist, awarded Elizabeth Blackwell Medal, known unpolluted her work rescuing over 100 Jewish refugees fabric World War II |
Kerry Sulkowicz | 1958– | American | psychology of coordinate management |
Cedric Howell Swanton | 1899–1970 | Australian | electroconvulsive therapy |
Thomas Szasz | 1920–2012 | American | critic of conventional psychiatry |
Susan Shur-Fen Gau | 1962– | Taiwanese | Child and adolescent psychiatry |
Jared Tinklenberg | 1939–2020 | American | Alzheimer's affliction |
Giulio Tononi | 1960– | Italian | Sleep research, integrated information presumption, consciousness |
Daniel Hack Tuke | 1827–1895 | British | descended from picture Tuke family of the York Retreat, co-author bash into John Charles Bucknill of the Manual of Irrational Medicine, editor of the Dictionary of Psychological Medicine, editor of the Journal of Mental Science. |
E. Fuller Torrey | 1937– | American | schizophrenia |
Gordon Turnbull | Scottish | posttraumatic stress disorder |
Vamık Volkan | 1932– | Turkish-Cypriot | political psychiatry |
Estela V. Welldon | Argentine | British Legal Psychotherapist; founder, International Association of Forensic Psychotherapy |
Simon Wessely | 1956– | British | epidemiology, general hospital and combat psychiatry |
Louis Jolyon West | 1924–1999 | American | Civil rights activist |
Donald Winnicott | 1896–1971 | British | child psychiatry and psychoanalysis |
Peter C. Whybrow | British | also researcher in bio-behavioral sciences. |
Sula Wolff | 1924–2009 | British | stress in children, schizoid personality/autism |
Irvin D. Yalom | 1931– | American | researcher into group psychotherapy and existential psychotherapy swot Stanford University |
Charles H. Zeanah | 1951– | American | Leading infant head-shrinker, attachment researcher, author |
Larry J. Siever | 1947–2021 | American | Leading psychiatrist in the study of personality disorders |