HLTHAGE 1CC3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Henri Laborit, Chlorpromazine, Psychiatric Medication
20 Jul 2018
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Hlthage 1cc3: introduction to mental health and illness. Lecture 11: psychopharmaceutical revolution - past and present. French surgeon, henri laborit, after world war ii, operated on a bunch of soldiers. He out chemical agents that might be used as anaesthetics. Laborit discovered that it almost worked, but not quite enough; chlorpromazine calms down those who take it but not so much to actually operate on them. Henri laborit discovers chemical lobotomy -- psychiatry"s penicillin . Our conception of who goes to a psychiatric hospital is altered once they leave a hospital and go into an office setting. Instead of dressing in a gown and admitted into a hospital, the client is dressed in normal, streetwear going into an office to talk. Around this time, chlorpromazine was a tranquilizer; it was held up as proof that mental health is part of the biological nature. Discreet mental diseases with its own initial causes and own treatments.
