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#502 – Psychiatry, Insane Asylums, Mental Illness, ECT, Lobotomies, Freud & Jung

aired Sep 17, 2026 · 223.0m
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Summary

The following is a conversation with Andrew Skull, a historian of psychiatry and mental health.

Why listen

It goes beyond the title with direct discussion of people, it's, think, including: 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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