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Timeline: Treatments for Mental Illness

A Brilliant Madness Learn more about treatments for mental illnesses on the Web site of a related American Experience program, A Brilliant Madness.

From the Greek physician Hippocrates to the advent of anti-psychotic drugs, trace the history of societal efforts to help the mentally ill.

Access the timeline of treatments for mental illness.

 

 


 

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