The book ends with an exploration of the use of psychedelic drugs in psychiatry in the 1960s and 1970s, and the ways in which mind-altering pharmaceuticals are making their way back into the heart of the field in the 21st century after decades of prohibition. #psychedelics #history #pharmaceuticals

Psychiatrists and psychologists such as R.D. Laing, Claude Steiner, Phyllis Chesler, and Mike Michaelson all labored to improve mental health by identifying and critiquing the power dynamics involved in both the practice of therapy and society at-large. #history #psychiatry #pharmacy

I argued that broader societal developments—e.g., the civil rights movement, second-wave feminism, and the Vietnam War—pushed a large number of psychiatrists and mental health workers to radically reform the discipline. #medicine #protest #radicalism #counterculture #health

In Break On Through, I explored hashtag#psychedelics hashtag#cannabis hashtag#drugs hashtag#pharmaceuticals and hashtag#psychiatry in the 1960s-1970s. I discussed the impact of the countercultural movement on the theory and practice of psychiatry in the late 1960s and 1970s.