S6E8 - Robert Whitaker on America's History with Psychiatry

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Join us as American journalist and author, Robert Whitaker, discusses his work as detailed in Mad in America and Anatomy of an Epidemic, exposing the troubling history and consequences of psychiatric treatment in America. He discusses how psychiatry’s shift from moral treatment to medication-driven care, fueled by media hype and pharmaceutical influence, has led to an “iatrogenic epidemic” of chronic mental illness. Whitaker critiques the overstated promises of drugs like Thorazine and Prozac, which were claimed to “empty hospital...