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Victims of mental illness have Frank Ayd to thank for his pioneering work in psychopharmacology: his discovery that chlorpromazine, also known as Thorazine, could be used to treat schizophrenia provided an alternative for those who otherwise might have been subjected to the trauma of a lobotomy. While Ayd recognized the power of antipsychotic medications, he also believed they could never replace other forms of care. As he told TIME in 1957, the drugs were "not a substitute for compassion, understanding, patience [or] an attentive...