Desperate Remedies: Psychiatry’s Turbulent Quest to Cure Mental Illness

Desperate Remedies: Psychiatry’s Turbulent Quest to Cure Mental Illness

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by Andrew Scull · 2022

Heard in 1 episode across 1 show since Sep 2026

A critical history of roughly two centuries of attempts to understand and treat mental disorders in the United States. Andrew Scull traces psychiatry from the rise of the asylum in the 1830s through psychoanalysis, institutional treatments, drug trials, and genetic research in the 2000s.

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