Asylum

#502 – Psychiatry, Insane Asylums, Mental Illness, ECT, Lobotomies, Freud & Jung

Lex Fridman Podcast, 17 September 2026. The book comes up at 1 hr 54 min in.

Andrew Scull mentions that his friend Patrick McGrath, a novelist, wrote a book called Asylum. Scull notes that McGrath grew up in the grounds of Broadmoor—England's premier hospital for the criminally insane—and was babysat by some of the patients, an upbringing that visibly shaped his macabre imagination.

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