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The Psychiatrist in Those 1950s Patient Films
Dr. Heinz Edgar Lehmann read the chlorpromazine papers in his bathtub in 1953, published the first English-language clinical study on the drug, and helped end the asylum era — then spent his later years warning that the revolution he started had produced cookbook psychiatry. This episode works through his biography, the science, and the black-and-white patient interview films that keep drawing millions of viewers seventy-five years later. Was Lehmann unusually compassionate by the standards of his era, or do the recordings just make him look that way? Key sources: • Wikipedia, Heinz E. Lehmann — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heinz_E._Lehmann • McGill Reporter, In memoriam (Joel Paris), 1999 — https://reporter-archive.mcgill.ca/Rep/r3115/memoriam.html • McGill Health e-News, Marking 70 years of psychiatric research at the Douglas, 2024-03-13 — https://healthenews.mcgill.ca/marking-70-years-of-psychiatric-research-at-the-douglas-celebrating-heinz-lehmann/ Episode 5920 — myweirdprompts.com/n/5920 (permanent short link: myweirdprompts.com/774393)
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