#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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