How Prozac Slew Freud: In the past hundred years psychiatry has come full circle: Psychoanalysis lost; medicine won
Edward Shorter American Heritage Not long ago I was lecturing in my course on medical history about people who had accused themselves of smearing feces on a crucifix or committing some equally sacrilegious act. In fact their beliefs had been delusional. They had done nothing of the kind, but one manifestation of their illness was…