Psychiatric hospital
Subject in History
Psychiatric hospital 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 argues that community care following deinstitutionalization was largely illusory.
“But community care is a shell game without a P. It's like one of those confidence tricks”
Lex Fridman Podcast: #502 – Psychiatry, Insane Asylums, Mental Illness, ECT, Lobotomies, Freud & Jung (Sep 17, 2026) · Listen from 35:22
Scull says the largest inpatient psychiatric facilities in the US are now jails.
“the Los Angeles County Jail, Cook County Jail in Chicago, and Rikers Island in New York. That's shocking because by their very nature, of course, prisons aren't equipped”
Lex Fridman Podcast: #502 – Psychiatry, Insane Asylums, Mental Illness, ECT, Lobotomies, Freud & Jung (Sep 17, 2026) · Listen from 33:44
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.