Madness in Civilization

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Lex Fridman Podcast

• #502 – Psychiatry, Insane Asylums, Mental Illness, ECT, Lobotomies, Freud & Jung · 2026-09-17

  “The following is a conversation with Andrew Skull, a historian of psychiatry and mental health. He has authored many books that I highly recommend, including Madness in Civilization, a cultural history of insanity from the Bible to Freud, from the Mad House to Modern Medicine,”

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