Psychiatry and mental health

Psychiatry is the field of medical science and psychology come together to provide help for people whose minds (as they say) is amended and whose behavior does not conform to accepted social standards. Psychopathology and clinical psychology are an integral part of the subdomains of this branch of medical psychology, by necessity, also includes neurology, mental retardation or mental retardation, forensic psychology, certain aspects of abnormal psychology, the social psychology and disease psychotherapy.Mental has been recognized as such from the time of Aristotle and Hippocrates, and a long modern history has been able described by some scientists.

Mental state characterized by psychological well-being and self acceptance. The term mental health generally implies the ability to love and relationships with others, the ability to work productively and behave in a way that brings personal satisfaction, without infringing on the rights of others. In a clinical sense, mental health is the absence of mental illness.
The Movement for Mental Health

The concern for the mentally ill has fluctuated over the centuries, but the development of modern methods of the matter is the mid-twentieth century-18, when reformers such as the French physician Philippe Pinel and the American physician Benjamin Rush made the man “moral treatment” to replace the sometimes cruel treatment that prevailed then. Despite these reforms, most mental patients are still living in prisons and asylums for the poor, a situation which continued until 1841, when the American reformer Dorothea Dix campaign to put mentally ill patients in hospitals for special treatment.

The modern mental health dates back to the publication in 1908 of a mind that has been found, an account of the experience of its author, Clifford Whittingham Beers, a mental patient. The book raised a storm of public interest for the mentally ill. In 1909 Beers founded the National Committee for Mental Hygiene. Read the rest of this entry »