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Victims of mental illness have Frank Ayd to thank for his pioneering work in psychopharmacology: his discovery that chlorpromazine, also known as Thorazine, could be used to treat schizophrenia provided an alternative for those who otherwise might have been subjected to the trauma of a lobotomy. While Ayd recognized the power of antipsychotic medications, he also believed they could never replace other forms of care. As he told TIME in 1957, the drugs were "not a substitute for compassion, understanding, patience [or] an attentive...
...small way, the AYD-HLU subterfuge was aprecursor to the anti-Communist purges thatoccurred across the nation in later years...
During the warm-up to the Democratic primary,which featured Harry S Truman and Henry A.Wallace, Bernstein says he attended a rally heldby the Harvard AYD chapter...
...suspected [the AYD] would be for Wallace,who was the most to the left, but apparently hewasn't to the left enough for them," Bernsteinsays...
Bernstein recalls how, at a cocktail party forpotential new members, the AYD student leaderschanted, "If Truman's in the way, we're gonna rollright over...