Before Prozac

Host: Leslie P. Lundt, MD Guest: Edward Shorter, PhD Recently-trained physicians may consider barbiturates and tricyclic antidepressants footnotes in history. But have they dismissed the most effective therapeutics in psychiatry? Dr. Edward Shorter, professor of psychiatry and the Hannah Chair in the History of Medicine and at the University of Toronto, joins host Dr. Leslie Lundt to talk about the evolution of antidepressants