Mother’s Little Helper: Psychiatry, Gender, and the Rise of Psychopharmaceuticals
Dig: A History Podcast
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Freudian Psychiatry
Milltown could help with mental stress and tension that accompanied other ailments. People with heart disease or alurgies needed drugs to help them with their underlying stress, which would in turn help them recover physically. The new minor tranquilizer, adarac, was advertised in the journal of american medical association for petiatric use, including tantrums and bed wetting. Equinil ads asserted that anxiety is part of every illness and included the agline and every patient in every illness.
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