Abstract
By 1955 even though the comprehensive community health center concept was still being developed, community-based psychiatry had made great strides. At that point a significant new therapeutic agent became available. The first of a great many new psychiatric drugs that altered feeling states without impairing the patient's ability to perceive and think was introduced in the mental hospitals of New York State, following earlier experimental use in Veterans Administration hospitals. The results were immediate and electrifying. Many patients previously not amenable to psychotherapy and milieu therapy were tranquilized to the point that they could participate in and benefit from the treatment program. Almost immediately a large number of other psychiatric drugs, both tranquilizers and antidepressants, were developed and introduced; the State systems put them to general use, and it was soon possible to discharge large numbers of long-term patients, and prospects for new patients improved considerably.
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