From Jung to psychedelics: a timeline of Switzerland’s contributions to psychiatry
From the synthesisation of LSD to the commercialisation of antidepressants, Switzerland has played a key role in the understanding and treatment of psychiatry.
Mental health disorders have been picked apart ever since Greek physician and philosopher Hippocrates suggested around 400BC that “four humours” – blood, phlegm, yellow bile, and black bile – affected human personality. In the Middle Ages, these conditions were considered a manifestation of the devi...
