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Psychiatry’s Desperate Remedies with Andrew Scull

Factually! with Adam Conover

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Issol Solution - We Need a New Diagnostic System Based on Biology

In the eighteenth century, patients got diagnosis and then and curge at least gave them a sense of somebody knows what this is. And that's not entirely false, but unfortunately, what we know is extremely limited. We've got to have something to treat these conditions with a coupled with the fact that mental patient tend to lose agency. They are treated as things, not people. So issol solution was to say, whell, we need a new diagnostic system based on biology. That's exactly what the american psychatric on had hoped they could do when they issued this manual in two thousand 13. But the reality was the science wasn't there, and isn’t there

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