List of psychiatrists

This list is of notable psychiatrists.

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.

A

• Ahmed Okasha, Egyptian, president of World Psychiatric Associationfrom 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

B

• 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

C

• 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

D

• 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

E

• 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

F

• 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

G

• 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

H

• 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

I

• Richard Isay (1934-2012), American psychoanalyst

J

• 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

K

• 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

L

• 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 Isaias Lopez (born 1941), Mexican, bioethics
• Abraham Low (1891–1954), founder of Recovery International (formerly Recovery, Inc.)

M

• 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

N

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

O

• Humphry Osmond (1917-2004) British, known for inventing the term 'psychedelic'
• Ian Oswald (born 1929) British, sleep research

P

• 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

R

• 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

S

• 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

T

• 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

V

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

W

• 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.

Y

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

Z

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

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
• List of figures in psychiatry
• List of fictional psychiatrists