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The Age of Anxiety by Andrea Tone

Milltown, the first of the so called minor tranquillizers, was discovered in 19 50 and approved for sale by the fda in 19 55. The drugs popularity and efficacy challenged frudian ideas about the etiology and treatment of neurosis. It bolstered the claims of a new biological psychiatry that attributed mental disorders tobalances of the brain. And it rendered anxiety accessible to scientific scrutiny.

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