A Land of Lotus-Eaters?

GEORGE MORRISON CARSTAIRSAuthors Info & Affiliations

Publication: American Journal of Psychiatry

Volume 125, Number 11

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.125.11.1576

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With the popularization of the psychotropic drugs, the author observes, a peculiar aberration has entered into public thinking: everyone nowadays expects to be happy. Pills have come to be regarded as a means to do away with the everyday anxieties and pain that have long served as spurs to human progress by leading to constructive action. This new view of unhappiness as a wholly negative and unnecessary emotion, the author suggests, is in need of reevaluation.

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American Journal of Psychiatry

Volume 125 • Number 11 • May 1969

Pages: 1576 - 1580

PubMed: 5776866

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Published in print: May 1969

Published online: 1 April 2006

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GEORGE MORRISON CARSTAIRS

Professor and chairman, department of psychiatry, University of Edinburgh, Royal Edinburgh Hospital, Morningside Park, Edinburgh 10, Scotland

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