Lex Fridman
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80,333 appearances
194 recordings
8 series
first heard Aug 2018
last heard 17 Sep
Lex Fridman’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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The following is a conversation with Andrew Skull, a historian of psychiatry and mental health.
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He has authored many books that I highly recommend, including Madness in Civilization, a cultural history of insanity from the Bible to Freud, from the Madhouse to Modern Medicine.
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and Desperate Remedies, Psychiatry's Turbulent Quest to Cure Mental Illness.
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Andrew Sko has spent decades studying how societies have understood madness, how psychiatry rose to authority, and how often that authority was used with false confidence and catastrophic consequences.
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In this conversation we trace the long arc from the asylum era to eugenics, from lobotomy and insulin
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comatherapy to electroconvulsive therapy, psychoanalysis, antipsychotics, antidepressants, and the modern crisis of mental health.
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It is, in part, a story about the terrifying history of bad ideas in medicine.
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But it is also about the fascinating mystery of the human mind.
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And about the difficult journey to understand it.
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And now a quick few second mention of each sponsor.
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Check them out in the description or at lexfriedman.com slash sponsors.
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It is in fact the best way to support this podcast.
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We got whisper flow for voice to text writing.
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Better help for mental health.
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And perplexity for curiosity driven knowledge exploration.
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Choose wisely, my friends.
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And now onto the full arteries.
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I try to make 'em interesting, but if you skip.
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Please still check out our sponsors.
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