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The American Journal of Psychiatry, VOL. 125, No. 11
Articles   |   May 01, 1969 
A Land of Lotus-Eaters?
GEORGE MORRISON CARSTAIRS
Am J Psychiatry 1969;125:1576-1580.
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Professor and chairman, department of psychiatry, University of Edinburgh, Royal Edinburgh Hospital, Morningside Park, Edinburgh 10, Scotland
1968-69, American Psychiatric Association
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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.Abstract Teaser
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