Drugs in Psychology

Behavioral pharmacology is the offspring of a union between experimental psychology and experimental pharmacology, fostered and in- deed force-fed by clinical psychiatry.Like most children, it feels that it is understood by neither of its parents and has some sense of grievance and exasperation as a result.Like most parents, however, both experimental psychology and experimental pharmacology have been influenced and changed by contact with their offspring.Some lifelong principles of psychology have been found wanting when viewed through the eyes of the unprejudiced child.The wonderfully fine fabric of the clothes of some Emperors of Theory can be seen through the eyes of the child to be not merely invisibly fine but simply nonexistent, revealing many distinguished psychological and psychiatric theorists to be wearing non- existent jackets and even nonexistent pants.Pharmacological ways have been extremely