Cognitive Behavioral Therapy - Is There More?

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I think what we do have more of is loneliness. And I see it you don't have to be a deep social critic or deep social observer to see what the smartphone has done to human interaction in the country's countries. God is dead and the family seems to be dying. It might be hard to keep mental health for human beings that evolved under different set of circumstances. The optimistic take on that is, well, we'll figure out new ways to do that. We need to pay attention to how technology has changed the way that we relate to each other.

When psychiatrist Marco Ramos of Yale University prescribes antidepressants to patients in distress and they ask him how they work, Ramos admits: We don't really know. And too often, they don't work at all. Despite decades of brain research and billions of dollars spent, psychiatry has made little progress in understanding mental illness. Listen as Ramos explains to EconTalk's Russ Roberts how the myth of the biological basis for mental illness began, why it stubbornly persists, and why honesty about what we know and don't know is the best policy.