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" Thorazine’s reputation was done in primarily by its link to tardive dyskinesia, combined with the rampant antipsychiatry movement that started in the 1960s—initiated in part by books like Thomas Szasz’s Myth of Mental Illness and in part by the rise of the civil rights movement and feminism, both of which employed a rhetoric later adapted by the antipsychiatry movement to insist that mental patients were another oppressed minority, “their psyches manipulated by therapists.” Thus the drug once hailed for saving the minds of many madmen and -women the world over is rarely prescribed anymore, so out of fashion has it fallen. "

Lauren Slater , Blue Dreams: The Science and the Story of the Drugs that Changed Our Minds


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Lauren Slater quote : Thorazine’s reputation was done in primarily by its link to tardive dyskinesia, combined with the rampant antipsychiatry movement that started in the 1960s—initiated in part by books like Thomas Szasz’s Myth of Mental Illness and in part by the rise of the civil rights movement and feminism, both of which employed a rhetoric later adapted by the antipsychiatry movement to insist that mental patients were another oppressed minority, “their psyches manipulated by therapists.” Thus the drug once hailed for saving the minds of many madmen and -women the world over is rarely prescribed anymore, so out of fashion has it fallen.