Psychiatric Drugs: A History in Ads

One of the easiest, most interesting, beautiful, and often comical ways to learn about the history of a particular topic is through media analysis.  In this gallery of images, the history of psychiatry is explored through advertisements for psychiatric drugs, from the early late 1800s to the present day.  It is a reflection of how history repeats itself, and demonstrates that we are not very different at all from generations past.