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The History Hour: The first anti-psychotic drug

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15/06/2019 GMT

The first anti-psychotic drug

BBC World Service - The History Hour, The first anti-psychotic drug

A mental health breakthrough, the end of the Kosovan war, and a trailblazing gay wedding.

A mental health breakthrough, the end of the war in Kosovo, a monumental public artwork in Germany, Chinese-American relations after WW2, and a trailblazing gay wedding.

How a 1950s drug helped revolutionise the treatment of mental illness. Also, how hundreds of thousands of Kosovans fled when NATO bombed former Yugoslavia. Plus, a monumental public artwork in post-Cold War Berlin, Chinese-American relations after WW2, and a trailblazing same sex wedding in the 1970s.

Photo: Nurses prepare a patient for electric shock treatment in a psychiatric hospital. (Hulton-Deutsch Collection/CORBIS/Getty Images)

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