PSYCH 103: Pharmacologic Treatment of Schizophrenia
Medlock Holmes enters the Great Apothecary of the Divided Mind.
The chamber is vast.
Along one wall stand the abandoned instruments of psychiatric history: wet-sheet packs, insulin syringes, barbiturate sleep chambers, convulsive machines, and the cold steel apparatus of prefrontal lobotomy.
Each represents an era in which clinicians tried to calm psychosis without understanding how to treat it.
Then Holmes finds a small amber bottle labelled Chlorpromazine, 1952.
Its arrival changed psychiatry.
For the first time, hallucinations, delusions, disorganised thought, agitation, and aggression…
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