Are We Making Progress in Psychiatry?

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We've gone through these stages like, i mean, just starting from froud and, you know, the talking curo. We have not cured everything, but we have figured out how to cure so many, or treat so many diseases. Have we actually made progress in psychiatry? You know, it's very, very difficult. The scinto neting is re the the ways we've categorized it may not fit.

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 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.