About Heinz Lehmann
Heinz Edgar Lehmann (July 17, 1911 – April 7, 1999) was a German-born Canadian psychiatrist best known for his use of chlorpromazine for the treatment of schizophrenia in 1950s and "truly the father of modern psychopharmacology." == Early life == Born in Berlin, Germany, he was educated at the University of Freiburg, the University of Marburg, the University of Vienna, and the University of Berlin. He emigrated to Canada in 1937. He worked at the Montreal Children's Hospital, where he improved his English. He was appointed junior psychiatrist at then Verdun Protestant Hospital, now called Douglas Mental Health University Institute, on the eve of the Second World War. He lived on the grounds of this hospital where he met his future wife Annette, a nurse, and their son François was born in 1944. == Hospital work in Canada == In 1947, he was appointed the clinical director of Montreal's Douglas Hospital. From 1971 to 1975, he was the chair of the McGill University Department of Psychiatry. He was also a humane lecturer in psychiatry in 1952, giving empathetic lectures on topics like anxiety, depression, obsessions, and paranoia. When chlorpromazine (Largactil) arrived from France in 1953 and imipramine (Tofranil) arrived from Switzerland in 1958, Lehmann helped promote them in North America, which ignited the drug revolution. He was also an early supporter of research on the use of psilocybin to alleviate anxiety.
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