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Shrinks

11 min read 15 min listen Narrated by Sam
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What’s it about?

A gripping history of psychiatry's chaotic journey from asylums and quack cures to Freudian dogma, accidental drug discoveries, and the modern brain lab—revealing how a field once lost in darkness finally found its way toward science and healing.

You’ll learn

  • Psychiatry's dark origins in Bedlam and moral treatment
  • How Freud's untestable theories dominated for decades
  • The accidental discovery of antipsychotic drugs
  • Why the future lies in combining drugs and therapy