Chlorpromazine and Trifluoperazine in the Treatment of Behavioural Abnormalities in the Severely Subnormal Child

Abstract

A prime obstacle in the training and socialization of the severely subnormal child is behavioural abnormality; drug therapy is most widely used in its control. Until the introduction of tranquillizers, sedatives were normally used. Unfortunately these caused not only motor, but mental retardation. The advent of phenothiazines appeared to offer a solution to this problem.