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#274 – Karl Deisseroth: Depression, Schizophrenia, and Psychiatry

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How Many Demons Must a Psychiatrist Have?

I wonder if it's somehow not having thoughts of suicide limits your capacity to truly understand somebody who is having those thoughts. So how many demons must the psychiatrist have in order to be a good psychiatrist? Yeah. I think everybody knows and I can say this that psychiatrists can be a little unusual. But also that may select for people who have some unusual aspects, but you don't have to have all of them. There's a lot that can go wrong in the psychiatric realm. Having some of those, some of it, but not all of it is enough. You get to see hello, things can get... Even if the symptoms are not the same. Just empathy for struggle for suffering.

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