National Institute of Mental Health
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National Institute of Mental Health 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 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
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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.