This signifies a radical departure from earlier psychological traditions. Leon Eisenberg, a leading expert in modern psychiatry and a professor at Harvard Medical School described this change as a shift from “a state of brainlessness to one of mindlessness (Angell, “The Illusions of Psychiatry”).” Before drug companies invented psychoactive drugs in the 1950s, psychiatry had very little interest in the physical workings of the brain. Instead, the profession viewed mental illness from a Freudian perspective, asserting that psychological problems stem from subconscious
This signifies a radical departure from earlier psychological traditions. Leon Eisenberg, a leading expert in modern psychiatry and a professor at Harvard Medical School described this change as a shift from “a state of brainlessness to one of mindlessness (Angell, “The Illusions of Psychiatry”).” Before drug companies invented psychoactive drugs in the 1950s, psychiatry had very little interest in the physical workings of the brain. Instead, the profession viewed mental illness from a Freudian perspective, asserting that psychological problems stem from subconscious