Fat and Blood · What Did They Read?

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

Lex Fridman Podcast, 17 September 2026. The book comes up at 2 hr 14 min in.

Andrew Scull describes Fat and Blood as Silas Weir Mitchell's companion self-help bestseller, whose thesis was that nervous patients who had grown scrawny and twitchy needed to rebuild their physical and nervous strength.

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