Lex Fridman Podcast
#502 – Psychiatry, Insane Asylums, Mental Illness, ECT, Lobotomies, Freud & Jung
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Andrew Scull is a historian of psychiatry.
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OUTLINE:
() – Introduction
() – Sponsors, Comments, and Reflections
() – Crisis in Psychiatry
() – Categories of Mental Illness
() – Asylums, Eugenics, and the Nazis
() – The Ice Pick Lobotomy
() – Malaria “Cure” for Syphilis
() – Insulin Coma Therapy
() – Electroconvulsive Therapy (ECT)
() – One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
() – Freud and Psychoanalysis
() – WWII and Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT)
() – Antipsychotics
() – Antidepressants
() – Future of Psychiatry
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