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Psychiatry’s Desperate Remedies with Andrew Scull

Factually! with Adam Conover

CHAPTER

The Past Confirms Everything We Do

I think very often people go into fields, a, for deeply personal reasonsa. That really wasn't the case for me when i started in this area 50 years ago now. Intellectually, i think this is a profound puzzle. It's trying to grasp mental illness and how to deal with ity. I've studied it now, across over two thousand years. My book before this one was called madness and civilization,. And it traced everything from the ancient greeks, an ancient palestine and ancient china all the way to now. The other side of the coin is there's immense amount of suffering here. Many of which have been very well meaning, not all of them

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