Antipsychotic
Subject in Medicine
Antipsychotic has come up in 1 episode across 1 podcast in TMT, including Lex Fridman Podcast. 1 person has made recorded remarks about it.
What people said
Andrew ScullBritish-American sociologist and historian of psychiatry, emeritus professor at UC San Diego
Scull highlights the CATIE study finding that most patients dropped out of antipsychotic trials due to inefficacy or side effects.
“Between 67% and 82% of the patients, depending on which drug they were on, dropped out of the trial”
Lex Fridman Podcast: #502 – Psychiatry, Insane Asylums, Mental Illness, ECT, Lobotomies, Freud & Jung (Sep 17, 2026) · Listen from 3:15:17
Scull argues that current psychiatric drugs are symptomatic treatments rather than cures.
“What we have available to us are symptomatic treatments, not cures. We don't have a psychiatric penicillin for any of the conditions we're going to be talking about”
Lex Fridman Podcast: #502 – Psychiatry, Insane Asylums, Mental Illness, ECT, Lobotomies, Freud & Jung (Sep 17, 2026) · Listen from 8:45
Podcasts
- Lex Fridman Podcast · 1 episode
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.