A Critique of the Tranquilizing Drugs, Chlorpromazine and Reserpine, in Neuropsychiatry

Publisher Website
Google Scholar
Abstract
THE advent of the tranquilizing drugs has aroused a ferment in psychiatric quarters that to the laity has implied the coming of the millennium in this phase of medicine. In view of the history of previous somatic therapies with similarly enthusiastic claims, it behooves the medical profession to evaluate the present results with a judicial and skeptical eye. It is the purpose of this paper to review the highlights in the literature on these drugs. The paper will be confined to the results obtained through the administration of chlorpromazine and reserpine, since other drugs have been reported in too few . . .