How reflexive a dismissal this is can be seen in how you pooh-pooh the author's 30 years of experience, yet don't pay enough attention to read her name. Edit:

How reflexive a dismissal this is can be seen in how you pooh-pooh the author's 30 years of experience, yet don't pay enough attention to read her name. Edit: I'm afraid the "historical perspective" you supply is not very historical. The decline of Freudianism began long before the 1980s, and pharmaceutical psychiatry has a much longer history than you imply. The antipsychotics that Steingard writes about were discovered about 60 years ago—something you might have learned from the fifth paragraph of her article. It is highly unlikely that she was trained as a Freudian; she says she spent 20 years routinely prescribing antipsychotics.