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

Historian Andrew Scull traces the history of psychiatry, covering asylums, eugenics, lobotomies, ECT, and insulin coma therapy. He explains how Freud, Jung, and psychoanalysis shaped the field and how CBT and antipsychotics changed treatment. The conversation also looks at psychiatry's current crisis and where it might go next.