Nathan Kline coined the term " psychic energizer " to account for this effect and posited that they be used in the treatment of depression.
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The experiments with the substance _ iproniazid, from a class now identified as monoamine oxidase inhibitors _ succeeded as a " psychic energizer " for 17 such patients.
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Nevertheless, iproniazid remained relatively obscure until Nathan Kline, the influential and flamboyant head of research at Rockland State Hospital, began to popularize it in the medical and popular press as a " psychic energizer ".
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It was described as " chemically and clinically different from any of the tranquilizers, psychic energizers or other psychotherapeutic drugs now available . " During studies, chlordiazepoxide induced muscle relaxation and a quieting effect on laboratory animals like mice, rats, cats, and dogs.
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As a senior psychiatrist at the Rockland Psychiatric Center in Orangeburg, N . Y ., in 1957, he and a colleague, Dr . John C . Saunders, described the successful use of iproniazid as a " psychic energizer " for 17 chronic hospital patients.
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