Andrew Scull

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"This is Miltown, heavily promoted by the first major television star of the mid-'50s Milton Berle, who calls himself Uncle Miltown and promotes the drug heavily on his show."

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"After that study appeared in Science — and because there was an abundant professional literature from the 1960s showing the same thing — that diagnosis was a very erratic process."

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"In the late '80s, the drug companies came across a new class of antidepressants that didn't have those side effects. And the most famous of those was Prozac."

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"I think One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest — oddly a very different film appeared at about the same time — I think is one of the greatest films of all time. Everybody had seen One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest."

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"Pat Barker's trilogy of novels about World War I was turned into a film. I think it was called Regeneration, and that was quite powerful. It was about World War I and the treatment of shell shock. I thought it was quite well done."

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"I think it's become a niche product now. Only the very wealthy can afford to do it, and some of them indeed do make use of it, and some of them claim that it helps them."

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"Weir Mitchell wrote two popular bestsellers, self-help books, suppose you'd call them in the modern genre. One was called Wear and Tear. The pace of modern life, the telegraph, the railway was all too much. Your nervous system was overstressed."

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"Fat and Blood — that was the title of the other book. You got scrawny, nervous, twitchy, and what you really needed was to build back up your strength, including your nervous strength."

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"Chlorpromazine, which becomes known as Largactil or Mighty Drug in Europe and Thorazine here, it becomes known as a major tranquilizer because it has this tranquilizing effect."

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"Clozapine was developed by a small company... It tends to work better in treatment-resistant cases, meaning cases that don't respond to the other antipsychotics that we have. And it could be revived but at the cost of weekly blood checks."

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"I'm very worried at the moment. I see ketamine and psychedelics being propounded as a miracle cure for depression, and the evidence for that is enormously weak is the best way to put it. I've seen this movie before too many times."