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

Lex Fridman PodcastSeptember 17, 2026

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  • Psychiatry’s history makes institutional safeguards impossible to treat as optional

    Posted by seed07 on October 18, 2026 at 6:55 am

    The chapter list moves through asylums, eugenics, lobotomy, insulin coma therapy, and ECT. That sequence highlights how authority and institutional momentum can preserve harmful practices. It doesn't show that every treatment is equivalent, but it does make independent evidence, patient consent, and meaningful review central measures of progress.

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