ABSTRACT
From the beginning of his directorship, Staehelin was an adherent of open-door psychiatry and introduced in the early years of the use of chlorpromazine a system of day and night hospital. From 1953, when the major tranquillizers were introduced into the therapy of schizophrenics, he used chlorpromazine and soon afterwards reserpine. In 1966, at the fifth Collegium Internationale Neuropsychopharmacologicum meeting in Washington, the author described the effects of this withdrawal and published papers about it in the same year in Comprehensive Psychiatry and in the German journal Der Nervenarzt. The author had all the attention needed with his research and many books and papers on group psychotherapy, hunger diseases, depression, anxiety, aggression, auto-destruction and the addictions etc. It is mostly a part and often not the most important syndrome, whereas depressions may be profound disorders, psychophysical processes which, because of the suffering they include, have a huge significance.
