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Mother's Little Helper on the Couch
03/06/2006
In the late 1950s 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 and cultural historian Jonathan Metzl, who looks at modern psychiatry through a gender and cultural lens.
