PSYCHOENDOCRINOLOGY

摘要: Volumes would be needed to review fully the broad field of psychoendocrinology. However, it may possible in a few pages characterize some its salient features, which is purpose this article. Before advent psychotropic drugs, workers mental health field, when thinking history, tended classify events as having occurred pre- or post-Freud. Now that drugs are dominant part practice, regarded predrug postdrug. It uncertain what might later become historical nodal point. Perhaps will one sudden changes style i.e., deinstitutionalization managed care. In any case, prepsychotropic/postpsychotropic drug dichotomy adequately serves for temporal organization comments about psychoendocrinology because history inextricably related psychopharmacology.