Madness in Civilization

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

Lex Fridman Podcast, 17 September 2026. The author is the guest. The book comes up at the start.

Lex Fridman names Madness in Civilization in his opening as one of Scull's highly recommended books. Scull references it as a comprehensive work covering madness from the ancient Greeks and ancient China to the present, noting that across every society he studied people who deviate far from culturally appropriate norms have always existed, taking different forms and being treated differently.

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