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Psychiatry’s Desperate Remedies with Andrew Scull

Factually! with Adam Conover

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A Brief History of Labotomies

i grew up on long island, and near me there was an abandoned mental hospital. I remember going there because i knew an older girl who was du do urban exploration. Once we snuck on to the premises, and we walked around this abandoned asylum. She told me that they did more labotamis here than than anywhere else in the country. A, and that's that always stuck with me. This was a extremely common treat ment for certain mental disorders, but also certain things that were not disorders at all. There were lor numbers of labatomies. They were disproportionately down on women. And that's a feature of many of these extreme treatments that i talk about in the

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