From the Madhouse to Modern Medicine

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by Andrew Scull · 2015

A richly illustrated cultural history of madness and society, tracing changing ideas about insanity from antiquity and the Bible through Freud and the development of modern psychiatry. The book examines how different societies have understood, confined, treated, and represented people considered mad.

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Lex Fridman Podcast
Psychiatry confronts its history of certainty and harm
The episode asks how a field with an uncertain evidence base can treat severe suffering without repeating the institutional and commercial abuses of its past.
Sep 17, 2026 · 3h 44m

1 episode featuring From the Madhouse to Modern Medicine

Psychiatry confronts its history of certainty and harm