ABSTRACT
Although pharmacology and psychology are two disciplines that for the most of their history have developed in separate ways, the discovery of drugs that were effective in the treatment of mental illness in the early 1950s placed them juxtaposed in pursuit of a common goal. This common goal spawned another discipline or disciplines called psychopharmacology and/or behavioral pharmacology. Prior to this revolution in the chemotherapeutic treatment of the mentally ill. there were pharmacologists who studied the effects of their drugs on behavior and psychologists who studied the effects of drugs on their behavior.
