Mother’s Little Helper: Psychiatry, Gender, and the Rise of Psychopharmaceuticals
Dig: A History Podcast
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The History of Psychoanalysis by Froud
In the mid twentieth century, almost all psychiatrists in private practice used freudian theories and methods. These doctors were analytic and psychological or a p doctors; they spent hours in talk therapy with their patients. On the other hand, most of the doctors who worked in the state hospitals, as asylums had come to be called, were directive and organic, or d o doctors. The rold for a second, i just wanted to say that the the d o doctors there, they're much more concerned with getting people's behavior to change so that they can better fit into society," he said.
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