List of psychiatrists


This list is of notable psychiatrists.
Additional lists of psychiatrists can be found at the articles List of figures in psychiatry, 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 and the list of neuroscientists.
NameLifespanNationalityNotes
Keith Ablow1961 -AmericanAmerican television
Alfred Adler1870–1937AustrianIndividual psychology
Jill Afrin1962-AmericanTelepsychiatrist for deaf people
Leo Alexander1905–1985Austrian–AmericanAuthor
Alois Alzheimer1864–1915GermanAlzheimer's disease
Daniel Amen1954-AmericanPsychiatrist and brain-disorder specialist
Nancy C. Andreasen1938-American2000 National Medal of Science recipient, professor of psychiatry at the University of Iowa College of Medicine
David Ames1984Australian2018 Order of Australia recipient for research in dementia and the mental health of older persons
Susan Bailey1950-BritishPresident of the Royal College of Psychiatrists
Jack Barchas1935–AmericanChairman of the Department of Psychiatry, Weill Cornell Medical College
Franco Basaglia1924–1980ItalianMental health reformer
William Battie1703–1776BritishPublished in 1758 a book on the treatment of mental illness
Peter Baumann1935–SwissAdvocate for psycholytic therapy and euthanasia
Aaron T. Beck1921–AmericanFather of cognitive therapy
Stephen Joseph Bergman, aka Samuel Shem1944-USAuthor
Vladimir Bekhterev1857–1927RussianBest known for noting the role of the hippocampus in memory, his study of reflexes, and Bekhterev’s disease
Eugen Bleuler1857–1940SwissCoined terms "Autism" and "schizophrenia"
Manfred Bleuler1903-1994SwissSon of Eugen Bleuler, research on the course of chronic schizophrenia
William Breitbart1951–AmericanChief of Psychiatry Service, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
John Charles Bucknill1817–1897Britishmental health reformer
Donald Ewen Cameron1901–1967Scottish"Depatterning" and "psychic driving" CIA funded experiments, head of APA and WPA
John Cade1912–1980AustralianLithium therapy research
Fiona Caldicott1941–British
Mary Cannon1965-IrishPsychiatrist and research scientist
Patricia CaseyIrishProfessor of Psychiatry at University College Dublin
Daniel Harold Casriel1924–1983AmericanCreator of 'The New Identity Process'
Ferdinando Cazzamalli1887–1958ItalianInterested in paranormal and metaphysics
Anthony Clare1942–2007IrishAcademic, interviewer on radio and TV
John Gordon Clark1926–1999American1991 psychiatrist of the year, Psychiatric Times
Ugo Cerletti1877–1963ItalianNeurologist, specialised in neuropsychiatry and electroconvulsive therapy
Eustace Chesser1902–1973Scottish
John Conolly1794–1866BritishHe published the volume Indications of Insanity in 1830
Arnold Cooper1923-2011AmericanPsychoanalyst theorist, former Tobin-Cooper professor at Weill Cornell Medical College and president of the American Psychoanalytic Association
Michel CrapletFrenchalcoholism specialist
James Crichton-Browne1840–1938BritishA pioneer of British psychiatric public health
John CuttingBritishalso writer, specialising in schizophrenia
Eric Cunningham Dax1908–2008BritishSpecialised in shock therapy and lobotomy
Christine Dean1939–BritishBritish community, alternatives to psychiatric hospital treatment and human rights of people with mental health problems.
Karl Deisseroth1971–AmericanNeuroscientist. Known for the technologies of CLARITY and optogenetics
Mason Durie1938-New Zealander
Leon Eisenberg1922–2009AmericanMedical educator, first RCT in clinical child psychopharmacology, protégé of Leo Kanner, author of early articles about autism and neurodevelopmental disorders
Milton H. Erickson1901–1980AmericanFounding president, American Society for Clinical Hypnosis
Wayne Fenton1953–2006USNational Institute of Mental Health, ex-Chestnut Lodge
Eleanora Fleury1860–1940IrishFirst female member of the Medico Psychological Association
Viktor Frankl1905–1997AustrianNeurologist, psychiatrist, psychologist, founder of logotherapy
Daniel X. Freedman1921–1993AmericanPioneer in biological psychiatry
Walter Freeman1895-1972AmericanProponent of Lobotomy
Sigmund Freud1856–1939AustrianNeurologist, "the father of psychoanalysis"
Jacob H. Friedman1905–1973AmericanPioneer in geriatric psychiatry
Karl J. Friston1959–BritishNeuroscientist and authority on quantitative brain imaging
Pyotr Borisovich Gannushkin1875-1933RussianAuthor, Manifestations of Psychopathies and Notes on the Psychiatric Clinic on Devichye Pole
Lars Christopher Gillberg1950–SwedishResearched on ADHD and autism
William Glasser1925–2013AmericanReality Therapy and Choice Theory
Semyon Gluzman1946–Soviet and Ukrainianwhistle blower on political abuse of psychiatry in the Soviet Union
Richard Green1938–AmericanInfluential work done in studying gender identity
Mikhail Gurevich1878–1953RussianPioneer of Soviet child psychiatry
Samuel Guze1923–2000AmericanMedical educator, and researcher
Robert Galbraith Heath1915–1999AmericanAlso neurologist
Karen Horney1885–1952Germanneo-Freudian
Henry Mills Hurd1843–1927AmericanThe first director of the Johns Hopkins Hospital
Richard Isay1934–2012AmericanPsychoanalyst
Junichiro Ito1954–JapaneseDirector of the Department of Psychiatric Rehabilitation, National Institute of Mental Health, Japan
Karl Jaspers1883–1969GermanExistential philosopher and psychopathologist
Eve Johnstone1944–BritishHead of Division of Psychiatry, University of Edinburgh
Carl Jung1875–1961Swissfounder of analytical psychology
Karla JurvetsonUS
Eric Richard Kandel1929–American2000 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
Victor Khrisanfovich Kandinsky1849–1889Russianintroduced the notion of pseudohallucinations and described the syndrome now known as Kandinsky-Clérambault syndrome
Boris Dmitrievich Karvasarsky1929–2013RussianAuthor, Neuroses: Textbook for Doctors and Personality-Oriented Psychotherapy
Robert Evan Kendell1935–2002Britishnosology
Otto Kernberg1928–Austrianpsychoanalytic theoretician and clinician
Seymour S. Kety1915–2000Americanpsychiatric genetics
Sergei Sergeievich Korsakoff1854–1900RussianStudied alcoholic psychosis, introduced the concept of paranoia and wrote a comprehensive textbook on psychiatry
Anatoly Koryagin1938–RussianWhistle blower on punitive psychiatry in the Soviet Union
Emil Kraepelin1856–1926Germanfounder of modern scientific psychiatry
Charles Krauthammer1950–AmericanPulitzer-winning columnist, known for political commentary
Ernst Kretschmer1888–1964Germanresearched the human constitution and established a typology
David KupferAmericanUniversity of Pittsburgh, current head of DSM-5
Arnold Kutzinski1879–1956GermanPsychiatrist and neurologist, outspoken critic of psychoanalysis
Ronald David Laing1927–1989ScottishPsychiatrist and antipsychiatrist
Karl Leonhard1904–1988GermanDescribed cycloid psychoses
Saul V. Levine1938–Canadianauthor, Radical Departures: Desperate Detours to Growing Up
Aubrey Lewis1900–1975AustralianClinical Director of the Maudsley Hospital, pivoltal influence on British psychiatry
Andrey Yevgenyevich Lichko1926–1996Russianvice 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 Lifton1926–Americanauthor, Thought Reform
Manuel Isaías López1941–Mexicanbioethics
Abraham Low1891–1954Americanfounder of Recovery International
Herman Wedel Major1814–1854NorwegianFather of Norwegian psychiatry
Henry Maudsley1835–1918BritishA pioneer of British psychiatry
Thomas McGlashan1942–USProfessor of Psychiatry at Yale Medical School
Peter McGuffinBritishpsychiatric genetics
Friedrich Meggendorfer1880–1953Germanalso neurologist, early describer of familial Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease.
Adolf Meyer1866–1950Swiss"Common Sense" psychiatry
Theodor Meynert1833–1892German-AustrianFounder of cerebral cortex cytoarchitectonics
Robert Michels1936–AmericanUniversity Professor and former Dean, Weill Cornell Medical College
Patrick McGorry1952–Australiandeveloped early psychosis model
John Monro1716–1791BritishWas the first of the Monro family of physicians dedicated to insanity
Robin MurrayBritishpsychosis
Conolly Norman1886–1908IrishR.M.S. of the Richmond District Lunatic Asylum, Dublin, Ireland
Ahmed OkashaEgyptianPresident of World Psychiatric Association from 2002 to 2005
Humphry Osmond1917–2004Britishknown for inventing the term 'psychedelic'
Ian Oswald1929–2012Britishsleep research
Stanley PalomboAmericanpsychiatrist and psychoanalyst, author
Herb Pardes1932–Americanpsychiatry chair and dean at Columbia University, and president, New York Presbyterian Hospital
Gordon ParkerAustralianmood disorders, in particular melancholia.
Nossrat Peseschkian1933–2010Iranian-Germanpsychiatrist, neurologist, psychotherapist, founder of Positive Psychotherapy
Issy PilowskyAustralianabnormal illness behaviour
Philippe Pinel1745–1826FrenchUnchained hospital patients
M. Scott Peck1936–2005Americanlove and spiritual growth
Desmond Arthur Pond1919–1986BritishChief Scientist at Department of Health and Social Security
John Rawlings Rees1890–1969Britishmilitary psychiatry and mind control
W. H. R. Rivers1864–1922Britishpsychiatric anthropology
Hermann Rorschach1884–1922Swissalso psychoanalyst, Rorschach inkblot test
Benjamin Rush1746–1813AmericanFather of American psychiatry
Gerald Russell1928–2018British
Michael Rutter1933–BritishChild psychiatry
Manfred Sakel1900–1957Austrianinventor of insulin shock therapy
William Sargant1907–1988BritishPhysical methods of treatment
Alan SchatzbergAmericanResearches the biology and treatment of depression
Daniel Schechter1962–AmericanResearches effects of maternal post-traumatic stress on the mother-child relationship
Kurt Schneider1887–1967Germanschizophrenia research
Vladimir Petrovich Serbsky1858–1917Russianauthor, The Forensic Psychopathology
Martin Seligman1942–USLearned helplessness
David Shaffer1936–South Africanchild and adolescent psychiatrist, suicide researcher, epidemiologist
Michael SharpeBritishpsychiatric aspects of medical illness
Michael Shepherd1923–1995BritishEpidemiological Psychiatry
Volkmar Sigusch1940–Germanalso psychologist
Eliot Slater1904–1983BritishDebunked "hysteria"
Victor Skumin1948–Russian:fr:Syndrome de Skumin|Skumin syndrome, also psychologist
Andrei Vladimirovich Snezhnevsky1904–1987Russianintroduced the term of sluggishly progressing schizophrenia
Solomon Halbert Snyder1938–Americanneurotransmitters
Robert Spitzer1932–2015Americanchair, Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, 1980
Hans Steiner1946–Austrianleading advocate of the developmental psychopathology and psychiatry
Daniel Stern1934–2012Americanleading infant observation and parenting researcher, theorist, author
Tina Strobos1920–2012DutchFamily psychiatrist, awarded Elizabeth Blackwell Medal, known for her work rescuing over 100 Jewish refugees during World War II
Kerry Sulkowicz1958–Americanpsychology of corporate management
Cedric Howell Swanton1899–1970Australianelectroconvulsive therapy
Thomas Szasz1920–2012Americancritic of conventional psychiatry
Susan Shur-Fen Gau1962–TaiwaneseChild and adolescent psychiatry
Jared TinklenbergAmericanAlzheimer's disease
Giulio TononiItalianSleep research, integrated information theory, consciousness
Daniel Hack Tuke1827–1895Britishdescendended 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 Torrey1937–Americanschizophrenia
Gordon TurnbullScottishposttraumatic stress disorder
Vamık Volkan1932–Turkish-Cypriotpolitical psychiatry
Estela V. WelldonArgentineBritish Forensic Psychotherapist; founder, International Association of Forensic Psychotherapy
Simon Wessely1956–Britishepidemiology, general hospital and combat psychiatry
Louis Jolyon West1924–1999AmericanCivil rights activist
Donald Winnicott1896–1971Britishchild psychiatry and psychoanalysis
Peter C. WhybrowBritish-
Sula Wolff1924–2009Britishstress in children, schizoid personality/autism
Irvin D. Yalom1931–Americanresearcher into group psychotherapy and existential psychotherapy at Stanford University
Charles H. Zeanah1951–AmericanLeading infant psychiatrist, attachment researcher, author