#502 – Psychiatry, Insane Asylums, Mental Illness, ECT, Lobotomies, Freud & Jung

Andrew Scull is a historian of psychiatry.
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OUTLINE:
(00:00) – Introduction
(01:07) – Sponsors, Comments, and Reflections
(08:10) – Crisis in Psychiatry
(37:48) – Categories of Mental Illness
(45:07) – Asylums, Eugenics, and the Nazis
(57:13) – The Ice Pick Lobotomy
(1:03:26) – Malaria “Cure” for Syphilis
(1:21:42) – Insulin Coma Therapy
(1:29:34) – Electroconvulsive Therapy (ECT)
(1:49:03) – One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
(2:06:35) – Freud and Psychoanalysis
(2:36:30) – WWII and Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT)
(2:57:04) – Antipsychotics
(3:20:24) – Antidepressants
(3:33:18) – Future of Psychiatry

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