After 1950 psychiatrists were convinced that asylum was no longer needed. Psychoanalysis and psychopharmacology have became important for mental illness treatments. The historiography of post-asylum history – though nascent – has been dominated by the study of these two developments. While those who have examined how the ideas of psychoanalysis stretched far beyond medicine, including art and culture, the history of psychopharmacology has been in part an exploration of how mental health became essentially brain health, and the ramifications of this transformation.
EUROPEANA LIFT the LID on Mental Health 