HLTHAGE 1CC3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Hypoactive Sexual Desire Disorder, Psychedelic Experience, Anxiety Disorder
28 Nov 2016
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Laborit discovered chemical lobotomy - psychiatry"s penicillin when hits market. To perform surgery on soldiers from wwii. Not an anesthetic, numbs but doesn"t put to sleep. First affective anti-psychotic medication - suddenly made schizophrenics, etc. calm. Psychiatry had poor reputation in medicine, held up as glori ed babysitters or custodians . 1920"s-1950-"s - psychological model was dominant way of thinking about illness (was an underlying psychological con ict - parents or childhood event) Must now be biological issue (start of medical model dominance) Once diagnosed, would get progressively worse and not much was able to be done. Belief that life itself could be manipulated through chemistry. Explosion of curiosity in biology of mental illness in 1950"s. Lsd (acid - had no negative connotation. Psychotherapeutic agent (giving to people who had drug addiction, depression, alcoholism and found lsd experience allowed people to re ect upon own lives and understand themselves in ways they never had - spiritual or psychedelic experience)
