Andrew Scull is a historian of psychiatry.
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OUTLINE:
(00:00) &#8211; Introduction
(01:07) &#8211; Sponsors, Comments, and Reflections
(08:10) &#8211; Crisis in Psychiatry
(37:48) &#8211; Categories of Mental Illness
(45:07) &#8211; Asylums, Eugenics, and the Nazis
(57:13) &#8211; The Ice Pick Lobotomy
(1:03:26) &#8211; Malaria &#8220;Cure&#8221; for Syphilis
(1:21:42) &#8211; Insulin Coma Therapy
(1:29:34) &#8211; Electroconvulsive Therapy (ECT)
(1:49:03) &#8211; One Flew Over the Cuckoo&#8217;s Nest
(2:06:35) &#8211; Freud and Psychoanalysis
(2:36:30) &#8211; WWII and Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT)
(2:57:04) &#8211; Antipsychotics
(3:20:24) &#8211; Antidepressants
(3:33:18) &#8211; Future of Psychiatry
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