The creation of psychopharmacology / David Healy.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Strangers in a strange land -- The doctoring of madness before chlorpromazine -- Explorations in a new world -- Psychiatry outside the walls -- Twisted thoughts and twisted molecules -- Positive and negative -- The sorcerer's apprentice -- Democracy.

"In this book, David Healy follows his study, The Antidepressant Era, with an even more ambitious and dramatic story: the discovery and development of antipsychotic medication. Healy argues that the discovery of chlorpromazine (more generally known as Thorazine) is as significant in the history of medicine as the discovery of penicillin, given the worldwide prevalence of insanity within living memory."--BOOK JACKET.