1. P. A. Parish, ‘The prescribing of psychotropic drugs in general practice’, Journal of the Royal College of General Practitioners (1971), 92, Supplement 4, 1–77, on 1. Parish undertook research into –and taught –pharmacology. He stressed the importance of teaching pharmacology to GPs.
2. See Andrea Tone, The Age of Anxiety: A History of America’s Turbulent Affair with Tranquilizers (New York, Basic Books, 2009), p. 196. For a full discussion of women and psychotropic medication in Britain see Ali Haggett, Desperate Housewives, Neuroses and the Domestic Environment 1945–1970 (London, Pickering and Chatto, 2012).
3. For the history of this discovery, see David Healy, The Antidepressant Era (Cambridge Massachusetts, Harvard University Press, 1997), pp. 43–8.
4. David Healy, The Creation of Psychopharmacology (Cambridge Massachusetts, Harvard University Press, 2002), p. 4.
5. Mickey C. Smith, A Social History of the Minor Tranquilizers: A Quest for Small Comfort in the Age of Anxiety (New York, Pharmaceutical Products Press, 1985), p. 12.