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Who invented psychiatry?

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Johann Christian Reil in 1808.

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The term 'psychiatry' was first used in 1808 by Reil, a professor of medicine in Germany, to describe the evolving discipline, although its practitioners were known as alienists (those who treated mental alienation) until the twentieth century.

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