PSYC 330 Chapter Notes - Chapter 13: Tardive Dyskinesia, Tricyclic Antidepressant, Atypical Antipsychotic
16 Aug 2016
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Historically, the motivation to administer psychopharmacological agents to the mentally ill has been simply to subdue them. More typically today, the medications are intended to provide people with some relief and ideally with the opportunity to function better in their environments. Psychotherapeutic: describes those drugs that have a special or unique effect on the mind or mental functioning o. There are 4 major classes of psychotherapeutic drugs: antipsychotics, antidepressants, antianxiety agents, antimanic or mood-stabilizing. Historical overview: david macht coined the term psychopharmacology in 1920, revolutions in pharmacology. As a result, public understood that medicine could produce drugs that are powerful and had selected beneficial effects. Added the faith in medicine to cure serious illnesses to. Many of the approaches used in the 19th century society were actually cruel. Included bloodletting, hot irons, flogging, revolving chairs, starvation, and sneezing powder. Esquirol were involved in the development of a classification system of mental illness.
