Antipsychotics

“. . . the way the antipsychotic story evolved cannot be understood without reference to the peculiar neuroleptic withdrawal syndrome tardive dyskinesia. Efforts to get to grips with this led in the 1990s to the replacement of neuroleptics with antipsychotics. The story also cannot be understood without the realization that psychiatry’s legitimacy was sharply challenged from 1965-1975” (Healy II, 174).