Clinical Study of Proclorperazine, a New Tranquilizer for the Treatment of Nonhospitalized Psychoneurotic Patients

Abstract

NOT only for the psychiatrist but also for practitioners of almost every other aspect of medicine, tranquilizing drugs have taken on great importance. The stress-laden situations of modern life, the paucity of trained psychiatrists and the cost and length of most standard psychiatric treatments have invited acceptance of virtually any drug that promises to permit mentally ill patients relatively normal, useful lives.Acceptance of the tranquilizing drugs, however, must be based more upon experience than promises. To be sure, many investigators have reported their experience with certain of the tranquilizers — particularly their effect in psychotic and nearly psychotic patients. . . .