List of psychiatrists
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This list includes notable psychiatrists.
Individuals listed below are all physicians, and are board certified by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology, or are members of the American Psychiatric Association, or the Royal College of Psychiatrists in the United Kingdom, or another professional medical psychiatric association in a different country.
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; are also listed below:
Contents: Top - 0–9 A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
A
- Jean-Marie Abgrall (1950 – ), French psychiatrist specializing in forensic medicine
- Keith Ablow (1961-), American television psychiatrist
- Alfred Adler (1870 – 1937), individual psychology
- Leo Alexander (1905 – 1985), Austrian–American psychiatrist, author
- Alois Alzheimer (1864 – 1915), German psychiatrist, Alzheimer's disease
B
- Jack Barchas, American psychiatrist, Chairman, Department of Psychiatry, Weill Cornell Medical College
- Aaron T. Beck (1921 – ), American psychiatrist, father of cognitive therapy
- Eugen Bleuler (1857 – 1940), Swiss psychiatrist, named term "schizophrenia"
- Ian Brockington (1935 – ), British psychiatrist, researched nosology of psychiatry
C
- John Cade (1912 – 1980), Australian psychiatrist, Lithium therapy research
- John Gordon Clark (1926 – 1999), American psychiatrist, 1991 psychiatrist of the year, Psychiatric Times
- Ugo Cerletti (1877 – 1963,) Italian neurologist, specialised in neuropsychiatry and electroconvulsive therapy
- Tim Crow, British psychiatrist, researched schizophrenia
D
- Eric Cunningham Dax (1908 – ), British psychiatrist, specialised in shock therapy and lobotomy
- Arthur J. Deikman (1931 – ), American psychiatrist, author, The Wrong Way Home
E
- Leon Eisenberg (1922 – ), American psychiatrist, first RCT in psychopharmacology
- Milton H. Erickson (1901 – 1980), American psychiatrist, founding president, American Society for Clinical Hypnosis
F
- Daniel X Freedman (1921 – 1993), American psychiatrist, pioneer in biological psychiatry
- Walter Freeman American psychiatrist, office leucotomist
- Sigmund Freud (1856 – 1939), Austrian neurologist, "the father of psychoanalysis"
G
- Lars Christopher Gillberg (1950 – ), Swedish psychiatrist, researched on ADHD and autism
- William Glasser (1925 – ), American psychiatrist, Reality Therapy and Choice Theory
H
- David A. Halperin (1934 – 2003), American psychiatrist
- John Hochman (1946 – ), American psychiatrist, specializing in forensic psychiatry
- Robert Galbraith Heath (1915 – 1999), American psychiatrist and neurologist
- Karen Horney (1885 – 1952), German psychiatrist, "neo-Freudian"
- James F. Hooper (1947– ), American Psychiatrist specializing in forensic psychiatry
I
J
- Ashoka Jahnavi-Prasad, valproate as a safer alternative to lithium
- Karl Jaspers (1883 – 1969), German psychiatrist and philosopher
- Eve Johnstone, British psychiatrist, Head of Division of Psychiatry, University of Edinburgh
- Carl Jung (1875 – 1961), Swiss psychiatrist, founder of analytical psychology
K
- Eric Richard Kandel (1929 – ), American psychiatrist, 2000 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
- Robert Evan Kendell, nosology
- Seymour S. Kety (1915 – 2000), American psychiatrist, Psychiatric genetics
- Emil Kraepelin (1856 – 1926), German psychiatrist, founder of modern scientific psychiatry
L
- Ronald David Laing (1927 – 1989), Scottish psychiatrist, Antipsychiatry
- Karl Leonhard (1904 – 1988), German psychiatrist, nosology
- Saul V. Levine, Canadian psychiatrist, author, Radical Departures: Desperate Detours to Growing Up
- Robert Jay Lifton (1926 – ), American psychiatrist, author, Thought Reform
- Manuel Isaias Lopez (1941 – ), Mexican psychiatrist, bioethics
- Abraham Low (1891–1954), founder of Recovery, Inc.
M
- J. M. MacDonald First published the "MacDonald Triad"- three warning signs against children who may become serial killers.
- Joseph Merlino, psychiatrist, author and hospital administrator.
- Adolf Meyer (1866 – 1950) Swiss psychiatrist, past president, American Psychiatric Association
- Robert Michels, M.D. American psychiatrist. University Professor and former Dean, Weill Cornell Medical College
N
O
- Peter A. Olsson (1941 – ) American psychiatrist, author Malignant Pied Pipers of Our Time (book)
- Ian Oswald (1929 – ) British psychiatrist, sleep research
P
- George I. Papakostas (1972-) American Psychiatrist specializing in the treatment of depression
- Gordon Parker Australian Psychiatrist, famous for work on mood disorders, in particular melancholia.
- Issy Pilowsky Australian Psychiatrist, famous for work on abnormal illness behaviour
- Philippe Pinel (1745 – 1826) French psychiatrist, regarded as father of modern psychiatry
Q
R
- Udo Rauchfleisch, psychiatrist from Switzerland
- John Rawlings Rees (1890 – 1969), British psychiatrist, Military psychiatry and mind control
- W. H. R. Rivers (1864 – 1922), British psychiatrist, Psychiatric anthropologist
- Maria Ron, neuropsychiatrist
S
- William Sargant (1907 – 1988) British psychiatrist, false memory
- Gunter Schmidt, German psychiatrist, sexuologe
- Kurt Schneider (1887 – 1967) German psychiatrist, schizophrenia research
- Volkmar Sigusch, German psychiatrist and psychologe
- Solomon Halbert Snyder neurotransmitters
- Robert Spitzer American psychiatrist, chair, Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM–III), 1980
- Cedric Howell Swanton (1899 – 1970) Australian psychiatrist, electroconvulsive therapy
T
- E. Fuller Torrey (1937 – ) American psychiatrist, schizophrenia researcher
U
V
W
- Julius Wagner–Jauregg (1857 – 1940) Austrian psychiatrist, Treatment of GPI
- Simon Wessely , British psychiatrist, Epidemiology, general hospital and combat psychiatry
- Louis Jolyon West (1924 – 1999) American psychiatrist, Civil rights activist
- Sula Wolff (1924 – ) British psychiatrist, Stress in children
X
Y
- Irvin D. Yalom (1931 – ) American psychiatrist, group psychotherapy research
Z
See also
- Psychiatry
- American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology
- American Psychiatric Association
- Royal College of Psychiatrists
- Lists
- List of cognitive scientists
- List of physicians
- List of psychologists
- Famous figures in psychiatry
- Fictional psychiatrists
External links
- World Psychiatric Association
- American Psychiatric Association
- The Journal of Clinical Psychiatry
- The American Journal of Psychiatry
- American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
- PSYCHOMEDIA The First Italian Portal on Psychiatry Psychology Psychoanalysis Psychotherapy
- Resources for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
- The Royal College Of Psychiatrists
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