Cognitive behavioral therapy
Subject in Mental Health
Cognitive behavioral therapy 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 judges CBT to work better than drugs for milder depression, consistent with NICE guidance, while its evidence is otherwise modest.
“for the milder forms of depression, I think CBT works better. than the drugs, without some of the side effects that the drugs have”
Lex Fridman Podcast: #502 – Psychiatry, Insane Asylums, Mental Illness, ECT, Lobotomies, Freud & Jung (Sep 17, 2026) · Listen from 2:53:28
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.