People have used diverse types of drugs and other preparations to ease their physical pain and mental distress for thousands of years. The search for new, more effective drugs gathered pace during the nineteenth century, before a confluence of factors culminated in the birth of modern psychopharmaco...
So, too, the ambition of the studies in this book is to open up a series of paths cutting across the tangled thicket of everyday life, with its burden of miseries, perpetual bad habits, repressed desires, in- effable longings, and untold melancholies—but a gloom relieved by the ...