HLTHAGE 1CC3 Lecture 11: Lecture 11a: The Psychopharmaceutical Revolution – Past and Present
30 Nov 2016
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Laborit discovers chemical lobotomy psychiatry"s penicillin : numbs people, but doesn"t put them to sleep, given to psychiatrists in paris, end to massive institutions. People who schizophrenia were given chlorpromazine and became easier to control and behaved better: end to custodians (people who look after and clean up after people in institutions, end of psychoanalytic dominance. 1920s 1950s, the psychological model was the dominant way illnesses were looked at. Chlorpromazine revolutionized this thought due to medication helping cure them : thought these problems were now biological, end of therapeutic nihilism, beginning of medical model dominance. Explosion of curiosity in biology of mental illness in 1950s: lithium. At this time, there was no negative connection. Lsd was given to people with drug addictions, alcoholism to treat these addictions. Lsd is coming back to treat terminal cancer: milltown (minor tranquilizer) extends beyond psych circles. Industry and pharmacies could not keep up with demand.
