Cotton was seen as the psychiatric equivalent of lord lister whoad introduced a antisepsis into surgery and allowed surgeons to develop. A cotc freeman in wats used to form the bottom es, very often unde onto local anaesthetic. The man paying that the brain doesn't have pan threshold sir. They drill through the person's skull and insert the knife and do their damage. While they were doing tat they were talking to the patients. Because empirically they had decided that when a patient started to get confused it was time to stop severing brain tissue. Was that growl? And so ii triman recorded these things. In one way we cope with horror.
Despite our efforts, we seem to be no better at treating mental illness than we were hundreds of years ago. Desperate Remedies author Andrew Scull joins Adam to explain why, on the way touching on the history of lobotomization, the collapse of psychoanalysis, and why our current regime of pharmaceutical intervention might not be all it’s cracked up to be. You can purchase Andrew's book here: https://factuallypod.com/books
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