Historique
Article de Périodique
Was addiction psychiatry an accident of history? (2016)
Auteur(s) :
BERRIDGE, V.
Année
2016
Page(s) :
927-928
Langue(s) :
Anglais
Domaine :
Plusieurs produits / Several products
Discipline :
PSY (Psychopathologie / Psychopathology)
Note générale :
This article in based on the author's keynote address on the history of addiction psychiatry given at the Royal College of Psychiatrists addiction psychiatry annual meeting, Brighton, April 30, 2015.
Résumé :
Addiction psychiatry has been part of the scenery for addiction services for as long as most people now active in the field can remember. But has that always been the case?
Psychiatry's presence in the field of addictions is actually quite a recent development, dating from the aftermath of World War 2, and becoming firmly established from the late 1960s. Medical involvement has a rather longer history: the area of specialism first emerged in the late 19th century for a condition then termed "inebriety". The Society for the Study of Inebriety, founded in 1884 (now the Society for the Study of Addiction), promoted the idea that inebriety - covering both drugs and alcohol, but with attention focused on alcohol - was a medical condition and should be treated by doctors. But most of its members were not alienists, as psychiatrists were then termed. They were medical temperance reformers and many came from the field of public health. [Extract]
Psychiatry's presence in the field of addictions is actually quite a recent development, dating from the aftermath of World War 2, and becoming firmly established from the late 1960s. Medical involvement has a rather longer history: the area of specialism first emerged in the late 19th century for a condition then termed "inebriety". The Society for the Study of Inebriety, founded in 1884 (now the Society for the Study of Addiction), promoted the idea that inebriety - covering both drugs and alcohol, but with attention focused on alcohol - was a medical condition and should be treated by doctors. But most of its members were not alienists, as psychiatrists were then termed. They were medical temperance reformers and many came from the field of public health. [Extract]