Ray Oshoroff sued Chestnut Lodge for not giving him medication. The case was seen as proof that psychoanalysis is outdated, he says. It crystallized a change in the way psychiatry thought about understanding one's self,. But it also made people afraid of psychiatrists who didn't give medications to those with mental illness.
Ray Osheroff was a successful doctor in the DC area until his depression became debilitating. The way he was treated — and not treated — changed psychiatry. Rachel Aviv tells the surprising story of the rise of psychiatric medication.
Today’s show was produced by Miles Bryan and edited by Matthew Collette. It was engineered by Paul Robert Mounsey, fact-checked by Laura Bullard, and hosted by Noel King.
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