Sunday, June 5, 2011

The father of psychopharmachology

You have to see this pioneering psychiatrist. Jean Delay (1907-87), the man who invented the term "psychotropic drugs" (in Sweden we call them "psykofarmaka") after having done the first experiments ever of a neuroleptic (so called anti-psychotic medicine) in 1952. (tried Thorazine on 20 mental patients. His and Pierre Deniker´s experiment is described in an article in 1952. I have translated it into Swedish. I hope someone wants to publish it.) He was also a philosopher (belonging to the same generation as Sartre and Beauvoir) and a member of L´Academie Francaise. (the French Academy of Letters.) Who had once tried to persuade Rudolf Hess into being injected with a truth drug (they called it narco-analysis) at the Nuremberg trials! (Hess refused. They had to interrogate him the usual way.) (ordinary boring talks. Therapists usually prefer this. Drugs are generally not regarded as truth-provokers.)

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