People and Society

Psychiatry Psychiatrists treat patients privately and in hospital settings through a combination of psychotherapy and medication. There ...

Psychoactive Drugs The role of psychoactive drugs, also called psychotherapeutic agents or psychotropic drugs, in the treatment of menta...

Psychoanalysis Developed in Vienna, Austria, by Sigmund Freud (1856-1939), psychoanalysis is based on an approach in which the therapis...

Psychological Abstracts Founded in 1927, Psychological Abstracts contains nonevaluative summary abstracts of literature in the field of...

Psychological Disorder While psychological disorders are generally signaled by some form of abnormal behavior or thought process, abnorm...

Psychology As psychology has grown and changed throughout its history, it has been defined in numerous ways. As early as 400 B.C., the a...

Psychophysics Psychophysics originated with the research of Gustav Fechner (1801-1887), who first studied the relationship between inco...