By David Healy. 633 pp. New York, Chapman and Hall, 1997. $82.95. ISBN 1-86036-008-4.
The Psychopharmacologists, a series of interviews by David Healy,is at once a fascinating and a disturbing book. Dr. Healy attemptsto capture the birth pangs and promise of psychopharmacologyin a series of interviews with major figures involved in thedevelopment of modern psychiatric drugs. The era began withthe discovery of chlorpromazine, introducing a paradigm shiftthat saw popular culture move from psychological explanationsof behavior to biologic ones. Dr. Healy has attempted to writea history of this shift through interviews with people who weredirectly involved. His choices are slanted a bit toward Europeaninvestigators . . . [Full Text of this Article]
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