Andrew T. Scull · 2022
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“So when I first conceived the idea of writing Desperate Remedies, the book, it was back in 1981. And I was in London on a Guggenheim Fellowship at the Wellcome Institute.”
Andrew Scull, Guest on Lex Fridman PodcastPsychiatry, Insane Asylums, Mental Illness, ECT, Lobotomies, Freud & Jung | Lex Fridman Podcast #502
“and Desperate Remedies, Psychiatry's Turbulent Quest to Cure Mental Illness. Andrew Skull has spent decades studying how societies have understood madness, how psychiatry rose to…”
Why: Highly recommended by the host for understanding the turbulent quest of psychiatry.
Lex Fridman, Host on Lex Fridman PodcastPsychiatry, Insane Asylums, Mental Illness, ECT, Lobotomies, Freud & Jung | Lex Fridman Podcast #502
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