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[FiveNotions]

The psychopharmacological era: notes toward a history
David Healy
http://davidhealy.or...o-a-History.pdf
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History of Modern Psychopharmacology: A Personal View With an Emphasis on Antidepressants
http://journals.lww....Personal.2.aspx

Conclusions: The contributions of many basic scientists, the crucial observations of clinicians, and the desire of the drug industry to make money have resulted in the currently available psychopharmacological treatments.

The future development of psychopharmacology depends on better clinical research to generate new hypotheses of the chemical and behavioral pathology of mental disease.

Psychosomatic medicine can make a unique contribution in its interdisciplinary role of stressing brain, body, and mind relationships.
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A Brief History of Psychopharmacology
Dr. C. George Boeree, Shippensburg University
http://webspace.ship...sychopharm.html
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A recommended dose of psychopharmacology
http://www.psycholog...armacology.html
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[BelaLugosisDad]

In the beginning alcohol was prescribed for mood disorders. Since then in order: opium, cocaine, diamorphone (Heroine), barbiturates, benzodiazipenes, and antidepressants have been prescribed for the same.

 

Each has been used, with disastrous effect, in an attempt to assist with the withdrawal symptoms of the former.

 

Dr Healy will go down in our generation as the town crier who denounced this as did Prof Ashton with Benzos. Sadly we will not be around to see this, and terrifyingly we will not be around to see the molecules that are prescribed to our children.

 

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[FiveNotions]

Wow, that insight sure hits home, Adam!