A good book on this is Mind Fixers: Psychiatry's Troubled Search for the Biology of Mental Illness. Describing the history of how many of these classes of drugs came about is pretty eye opening, I would say the book is pretty nuanced in its conclusions.

https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/40180010-mind-fixers

The title is a play on the Pulitzer prize winning article from the 80's.

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