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The Curious Case of Empty Asylums and the Birth of Psychiatry

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Doctors in all ages have made fortunes by killing their patients by means of their cures. The difference in psychiatry is that it is the death of the soul. —R.D. Laing Medical Before Medicine For most of history, madness wasn’t a medical issue—it was a nuisance to be contained. The earliest solution? Drill a hole in the skull. Trepanation, practiced over 7,000 years ago, was meant to release demons or bad energy. If the patient survived, they we…

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The Curious Case of Empty Asylums and the Birth of Psychiatry

Doctors in all ages have made fortunes by killing their patients by means of their cures. The difference in psychiatry is that it is the death of the soul. —R.D. Laing Medical Before Medicine For most of history, madness wasn’t a medical issue—it was a nuisance to be contained. The earliest solution? Drill a hole in the skull. Trepanation, practiced over 7,000 years ago, was meant to release demons or bad energy. If the patient survived, they we…

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Q1 2025 Recap: Psychiatry

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