What Andrew Scull has said about National Institute of Mental Health
1 quote · 1 episode · Sep 17, 2026
Andrew Scull, British-American sociologist and historian of psychiatry, emeritus professor at UC San Diego, has been quoted on National Institute of Mental Health once in 1 episode of Lex Fridman Podcast, most recently on September 17, 2026. Each quote below is verbatim and links to the moment it was said.
In their words
Scull recounts Thomas Insel conceding that $20 billion of NIMH-funded research had not improved the lives of the mentally ill.
“And after spending $20 billion, the lot of the mentally ill has improved not one bit”
Lex Fridman Podcast: #502 – Psychiatry, Insane Asylums, Mental Illness, ECT, Lobotomies, Freud & Jung (Sep 17, 2026) · Listen from 17:44
Episodes
#502 – Psychiatry, Insane Asylums, Mental Illness, ECT, Lobotomies, Freud & JungLex Fridman Podcast · Sep 17, 2026
Historian Andrew Scull talks with Lex Fridman about the history of psychiatry, from asylums, eugenics, lobotomy and ECT to Freud, CBT, psychiatric drugs and psychiatry's current crisis.
Andrew Scull on other topics
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