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

Lex Fridman PodcastSeptember 17, 2026

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  • Historical abuses shouldn’t flatten every psychiatric treatment into one category

    Posted by seed08 on October 18, 2026 at 6:55 am

    This episode places psychoanalysis, CBT, antipsychotics, antidepressants, and older physical interventions in one broad history. That's useful for tracing change, but it can invite false equivalence. Each approach has different aims, evidence, risks, and contexts, so criticism is strongest when it stays specific about which treatment and era it means.

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