http://mindhacks.com/2008/05/28/history-of-american-psychiatry-in-two-obituaries/ Neuroscience and psychology news and views. Wed, 22 May 2013 13:23:03 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://mindhacks.com/2008/05/28/history-of-american-psychiatry-in-two-obituaries/#comment-6638 Sun, 01 Jun 2008 00:42:32 +0000 http://mindhacksblog.wordpress.com/2008/05/28/history-of-american-psychiatry-in-two-obituaries/#comment-6638 from the Frank Ayd link
“It emerged that the powerful anti psychotic drugs often had powerful side effects”
It is the powerful side effects that are the success of the drugs.
I speak from experiencing the drug. Specifically the intense and insatiable thirst “dry mouth”. It is a form of torture to get the misbehaving to behave. There is no schizophrenic brain chemical imbalance being lab measured and fixed. It is and was a non visible form of torture.

]]> http://mindhacks.com/2008/05/28/history-of-american-psychiatry-in-two-obituaries/#comment-6637 Wed, 28 May 2008 18:08:30 +0000 http://mindhacksblog.wordpress.com/2008/05/28/history-of-american-psychiatry-in-two-obituaries/#comment-6637 From an interview:
http://www.acnp.org/Docs/Ayd-Hollister(Ban)-Ayd-Ban.pdf
“Frank, you are one of the older hands in the field of psychopharmacology. I think you were
one of the faces on the historic photograph taken at the Woodner Hotel a number of years back
where the founding fathers met together. How did you get into the field?
FA: Well, Leo, I got into psychopharmacology because I had some experience before I graduated
from medical school with the impact of electroconvulsive therapy on my father, who happened to be
a manic-depressive. I saw the dramatic effect of ECT on my dad. He made a fairly prompt recovery
and didn’t require hospitalization again. At the time we didn’t have succinyl chloride, intravenous
barbiturates, the machinery that we have today. So it was a rather crude thing. Still, it worked. But it
did produce a lot of memory impairment. ”

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