Mother’s Little Helper: Psychiatry, Gender, and the Rise of Psychopharmaceuticals
Dig: A History Podcast
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Psychological Intervention in the Nineteen Sixties
Studies in the 19 fifties and sixties declared that nearly everyone needed psychological help. One study of office visits found that tens of millions of people had gone to their doctors with psychiatric aints. A study done at mount sinai hospital in new york city found that an overwhelming majority of patients who presented with difficult to diagnose ailments actually had psychological factors as the basis for their complaints and illnesses. By the mid 19 sixties, conventional wisdom held that up to half of all patients seen in general practice were free of organic illness, their suffering entirely psychological.
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