Featured Excerpt: The Madness Pill
Sara Beth Haring
by Justin Garson In the 1950s, the field of psychiatry had nothing to show for itself. While polio was being cured, antibiotics were being discovered, and cancer research was developing, the mental health world had no wins. Asylums were full and nobody had figured out how to fix insanity—specifically schizophrenia, the severest mental illness. Scientists […] The post Featured Excerpt: <i>The Madness Pill</i> appeared first on The History Reader .