section_path: History/Europe/Nineteenth century
section_name: Nineteenth century
paragraph_text: Nineteenth century
  
  Industrialization and population growth led to a massive expansion of the number and size of insane asylums in every Western country in the 19th century. Numerous different classification schemes and diagnostic terms were developed by different authorities, and the term psychiatry was coined (1808), though medical superintendents were still known as alienists.