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Annual Review of Clinical Psychology May 2019We live in an age of psychopharmacology. One in six persons currently takes a psychotropic drug. These drugs have profoundly shaped our scientific and cultural... (Review)
Review
We live in an age of psychopharmacology. One in six persons currently takes a psychotropic drug. These drugs have profoundly shaped our scientific and cultural understanding of psychiatric disease. By way of a historical review, we try to make sense of psychiatry's dependency on psychiatric drugs in the care of patients. Modern psychopharmacology began in 1950 with the synthesis of chlorpromazine. Over the course of the next 50 years, the psychiatric understanding and treatment of mental illness radically changed. Psychotropic drugs played a major part in these changes as state hospitals closed and psychotherapy gave way to drug prescriptions. Our review suggests that the success of psychopharmacology was not the consequence of increasingly more effective drugs for discrete psychiatric diseases. Instead, a complex mix of political economic realities, pharmaceutical marketing, basic science advances, and changes in the mental health-care system have led to our current infatuation with psychopharmacology.
Topics: History, 19th Century; History, 20th Century; History, 21st Century; Humans; Mental Health Services; Psychiatry; Psychopharmacology; Psychotropic Drugs
PubMed: 30786241
DOI: 10.1146/annurev-clinpsy-050718-095514 -
Der Nervenarzt Nov 2023
Topics: Humans; Psychotherapy; Psychiatry
PubMed: 37910315
DOI: 10.1007/s00115-023-01559-4 -
Revue Medicale Suisse Jan 2018Children of patients with psychiatric disorders are at higher risk to develop a psychiatric illness. In addition, phases of crisis and hospitalization of the parent are...
Children of patients with psychiatric disorders are at higher risk to develop a psychiatric illness. In addition, phases of crisis and hospitalization of the parent are often traumatizing to the children, especially during childhood. Although a specific offer to face these issues is compulsory in some countries, such is not the case in Switzerland. In this paper we describe the implementation of a special offer for children of parents with mental illness (Famille +) in the service of general psychiatry at the Department of psychiatry of the Lausanne University hospital in Switzerland. We will also discuss the development and implementation of the Joint Crisis Plan, a collaborative tool where psychiatric patients and clinicians define the strategies that should be applied in case of crisis, which strengthens the empowerment of patients and their participation to decisions about their treatment.
Topics: Child; Hospitalization; Humans; Mental Disorders; Power, Psychological; Psychiatry; Switzerland
PubMed: 29337459
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Der Nervenarzt Apr 2022
Topics: Humans; Neurology; Psychiatry
PubMed: 35426071
DOI: 10.1007/s00115-022-01265-7 -
Zeitschrift Fur Kinder- Und... May 2021
Topics: Adolescent; Adolescent Psychiatry; Child; Child Psychiatry; Family; Humans
PubMed: 33993736
DOI: 10.1024/1422-4917/a000796 -
Zeitschrift Fur Kinder- Und... May 2021
Topics: Adolescent; Adolescent Psychiatry; Child; Child Psychiatry; Family; Humans
PubMed: 35514169
DOI: 10.1024/1422-4917/a000875 -
Tijdschrift Voor Psychiatrie 2021
Topics: Humans; Phenotype; Psychiatry
PubMed: 34851514
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Tijdschrift Voor Psychiatrie 2022
Topics: Humans; Mental Disorders; Psychiatry
PubMed: 36117476
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Soins. Psychiatrie 2020
Topics: Financing, Organized; Humans; Psychiatry
PubMed: 33357659
DOI: 10.1016/S0241-6972(20)30108-0 -
Zeitschrift Fur Kinder- Und... Jul 2020
Topics: Adolescent; Adolescent Psychiatry; Child; Child Psychiatry; Contraceptive Agents, Female; Depression; Female; Gynecology; Humans; Suicide
PubMed: 32614280
DOI: 10.1024/1422-4917/a000736