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
Despite our efforts, we seem to be no better at treating mental illness than we were hundreds of years ago. Desperate Remedies author Andrew Scull joins Adam to explain why, on the way touching on the history of lobotomization, the collapse of psychoanalysis, and why our current regime of pharmaceutical intervention might not be all it’s cracked up to be. You can purchase Andrew's book here: https://factuallypod.com/books
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