HIST250 Study Guide - Final Guide: Scientific Method, Diazepam, Barbiturate
17 Oct 2016
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Drawing on the works of andrea tone, explain the rise of biological. Psychiatry and psychopharmacology as a response to from the 1970s and 1980s. Andrea tone is a historian who published her research on the rise of biological psychiatry and psychopharmacology in a journal of psychology. She targeted an audience made up of medical professions, her aim to provide a historical analysis on the history of mental health in 20th century united states. Her work looks at the move away from the more traditional methods of psychological treatment and to the rise of biological psychiatry as a response to the need for an accredited discipline. The essay will discuss the health culture of 20th century america as well as the circumstances that give rise to biological psychiatry and responses from psychopharmacology as the new form of treatment for psychological diseases. The move away from psychology in favour of biological psychiatry is not unexpected.
