It’s got a fun history but all in all Thorazine was a massive step forward in how psych patients are treated. One of the first “chemical restraints” I believe
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My intro to psych professor was herself a bit crazy, mostly in good ways, but still… It was the 80s. She was a child of the 50s who came of age in the 60s and fully embraced 70s counter-culture weirdness.
First couple days of class as she was trying to facilitate us all getting to know each other, she put us through this exercise where we each told a humorous story about ourselves.
She started it with a story of what happened after she got a medical license and was allowed to write prescriptions. She got it in her head that she wouldn’t prescribe things like Thorazine to patients unless she herself fully understood the effects. The best way to do that, she decided, was to take them. So, one fine day, having read all the literature about Thorazine, she decided to take her own dose.
Three days later, she woke up, not remembering she took anything for a while, and then decided she probably shouldn’t be trusted with a prescription pad. The next day, she applied for a job at the university as a professor. (I can’t do her delivery justice here, but it was hilarious the way she told the story.)
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It’s got a fun history but all in all Thorazine was a massive step forward in how psych patients are treated. One of the first “chemical restraints” I believe
My intro to psych professor was herself a bit crazy, mostly in good ways, but still… It was the 80s. She was a child of the 50s who came of age in the 60s and fully embraced 70s counter-culture weirdness.
First couple days of class as she was trying to facilitate us all getting to know each other, she put us through this exercise where we each told a humorous story about ourselves.
She started it with a story of what happened after she got a medical license and was allowed to write prescriptions. She got it in her head that she wouldn’t prescribe things like Thorazine to patients unless she herself fully understood the effects. The best way to do that, she decided, was to take them. So, one fine day, having read all the literature about Thorazine, she decided to take her own dose.
Three days later, she woke up, not remembering she took anything for a while, and then decided she probably shouldn’t be trusted with a prescription pad. The next day, she applied for a job at the university as a professor. (I can’t do her delivery justice here, but it was hilarious the way she told the story.)