Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders
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Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders has come up in 1 episode across 1 podcast in TMT, including Lex Fridman Podcast. 1 person has made recorded remarks about it.
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Andrew ScullBritish-American sociologist and historian of psychiatry, emeritus professor at UC San Diego
Scull reports Allen Frances's view that rising autism diagnoses stem mainly from loosened DSM-IV criteria.
“is more driven by the fact he loosened the criteria for the diagnosis than it is because there are more actual cases”
Lex Fridman Podcast: #502 – Psychiatry, Insane Asylums, Mental Illness, ECT, Lobotomies, Freud & Jung (Sep 17, 2026) · Listen from 3:22:45
Scull describes Rosenhan's On Being Sane in Insane Places as a scientific fraud that nonetheless spurred DSM-III's reform of diagnosis.
“via a very famous study that's a scientific fraud. by David Rosenhorn called On Being Sane in Insane Places”
Lex Fridman Podcast: #502 – Psychiatry, Insane Asylums, Mental Illness, ECT, Lobotomies, Freud & Jung (Sep 17, 2026) · Listen from 14:10
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- Lex Fridman Podcast · 1 episode
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#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.