The five lives of the psychiatry manual

摘要

My grandfather, the pioneering psychiatrist RoyGrinker(1900-93), said that "to know schizophrenia is to know psychiatry". Indeed, psychiatry in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries was largely an effort to understand psychosis, the majority of practitioners being employed in public mental-health institutions. The field broadened in the mid-twentieth century when psychiatrists became aware of a spectrum of mental disorders - not in hospitals, but in wars.