Psychopharmacology emerged with the discovery of chlorpromazine in 1952. This led on to the discovery of other antipsychotics, antidepressants, tranquillisers, psychedelics and other drugs. Traditional histories tell of a liberation of the insane from their asylums. This history neglects the rise and fall of antipsychiatry, and the fact that many more people are both employed in and treated by ...