By Jean Thuillier. English edition approved by David Healy. 240 pp. London, Martin Dunitz, 1999. £ 24.95. ISBN 1-85317-886-1.
As the new millennium begins, the identification of cardinalhistorical events has become standard. In the field of psychiatry,a good case can be made for choosing the development of psychotherapeuticdrugs as the key advance of the past century. What many do notappreciate is that the principal classes of antipsychotic, antidepressant,antianxiety, and antimanic drugs were all discovered and introducedinto clinical use between 1949 and 1960. Hence, this book'stitle, Ten Years That Changed the Face of Mental Illness, isaltogether appropriate. The author is uniquely suited to tellthis remarkable tale, since Thuillier was a house . . . [Full Text of this Article]
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