Katie Charlwood
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first heard Jul 2026
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Then let's begin.
There are a few things history loves more than watching powerful institutions convince themselves that they're being perfectly rational while doing something that future generations will collectively look back on and say, alright, well that was disturbing.
And so this, this story today is one of those moments, like it is about psychiatry, race, politics, and what happens when medicine, like history, does not exist in a vacuum.
So I'm going to talk about today, as I'm sure you know from the title of the episode, the protest psychosis.
Now, I want to clarify before I get into anything else that this episode is not about whether schizophrenia is a real illness, because it is.
Because schizophrenia is a serious psychiatric disorder and it affects millions of people worldwide.
And because we've researched it for decades, you know, our modern research
has dramatically improved our understanding of causes, diagnoses, treatment, and nothing that we're discussing today should be interpreted as dismissing the experiences of people living with schizophrenia or suggesting that modern psychiatry views political activism as evidence of mental illness.
Only idiots do that.
No, this episode is about history.
Specifically, it's about how psychiatric ideas changed over time, how social and political attitudes can shape medical thinking, and how one diagnosis, schizophrenia, underwent a remarkable transformation during one of the most turbulent periods in American history.
Because diseases...
don't exist in isolation.
Now, the biology might stay the same, but the stories societies tell about illness, it doesn't.
Like, things change.
It's like, okay, sidebar.
You know when they talk about leprosy in the Bible?
The disease that is leprosy, that is known as leprosy, is not the same leprosy that exists
today it is a very very different it's a very very different disease which i will happily talk about one day because i really like historical diseases but we will cover this and that's the thing right so
As you guessed, I'm going to be talking about mental illness quite a bit in this week's episode.
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