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Mother's Little Helper on the Couch

Posted by capricorn on June 2, 2006, at 7:35:14

Mother's Little Helper on the Couch

Saturday 03 June 2006

In the late 1950's the first of the psychiatric wonder drugs hit the United States with a vengeance - and in the 70s Valium was widely prescribed to women as 'mother's little helper'. It was seen as the biological revolution that overthrew Freudian psychotherapy, as the dominant treatment for psychiatric problems. But in today's Prozac era - what's changed? Lynne Malcolm speaks with Psychiatrist & cultural historian, Jonathan Metzl who looks at modern psychiatry through a gender and cultural lens.

http://www.abc.net.au/rn/allinthemind/default.htm


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