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Psychiatry’s Desperate Remedies with Andrew Scull

Factually! with Adam Conover

CHAPTER

How to Cure a Mental Illness

Mental illness is something that humans have been struggling with for literally as long as there have been humans. In the middle ages, mental illness was attributed to an balance of the different fluids flowing through a person,. And this meant the cure for a serious mental illness might be blood letting or inducement to vomit. Our most recent approach is mass pharmaceutical intervention. We drug people who are mentally ill. All you really need to do is look around to see that it's not really working. Rates are as high as ever and we are not making adent the the sad truth is that mental illness is just one of the most complex, difficult, intractable problems facing human medicine. There are no

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