If there is one central intellectual reality at the end of the twentieth century, it is that the biological approach to psychiatry--treating mental illness as a genetically influenced disorder of brain chemistry--has been a smashing success. Freud's ideas, which dominated the history of psychiatry for the past half century, are now vanishing like the last snows of winter. Edward Shorter
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This might be an exaggeration but it is safe to say that the biological approach to psychiatry has been a smashing success. It holds that mental illness is caused by brain chemistry and can be treated by medications. Psychiatrists commonly use this approach to treat people with depression, schizophrenia, and anxiety disorders. The biological approach is currently the most popular treatment for mental illness and has been for at least five decades.

Source: A History Of Psychiatry: From The Era Of The Asylum To The Age Of Prozac

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