psychic energizer

American  

noun

1. Pharmacology. antidepressant.

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Etymology

Origin of psychic energizer

First recorded in 1955–60

Example Sentences

Last week the Upjohn Co. withdrew Monase. a "psychic energizer,"after reporting to FDA that widespread use since June 1961 had produced seven cases of aplastic anemia, four of them fatal�though the drug was tested in 3,500 patients, with no sign of damage to their blood-cell mechanisms, before it was marketed.

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In psychiatry, Dr. Nathan S. Kline of New York's Rockland State Hospital reported, the drug is equally effective as a "psychic energizer" for long-term hospital patients and the at-large depressed whom he sees in private practice.

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Emphasizing the distinction between the effects of iproniazid and previously used ataraxics, Rockland's Research Director Nathan S. Kline called it not a tranquilizer but a "psychic energizer."

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