The History of Medicine

This week we move onto the Medieval era, and look at the writings of some guy named some version of Nicolai, and Arabic surgeon Ibn al Quff to learn about what they were up to. Check out our website! E-mail me at thehistoryofmedicinepodcast@gmail.com! Say hi on Facebook!   Transcripts and Sources here!

We're back! And this season, we're exploring the history of treating pain, or pain management. As per usual, we start this off with an exploration of ancient techniques for dealing with pain, which honestly I'm pretty impressed by. Check out our website! E-mail me at thehistoryofmedicinepodcast@gmail.com! Say hi on Facebook!   Transcripts and Sources here!

This week, let's talk about what the future may hold when it comes to treating mental illness. As always, I'm now taking a month-long hiatus to prepare for the next season. Be back soon! Check out our website! E-mail me at thehistoryofmedicinepodcast@gmail.com! Say hi on Facebook!   Transcripts and Sources here!

It turns out, complaining on the internet can be good for something. Check out our website! E-mail me at thehistoryofmedicinepodcast@gmail.com! Say hi on Facebook!   Transcripts and Sources here!

This week, we return to the DSM, the big book used by psychiatrists for diagnoses, which comes under fire, but now in the age of the internet, which we know can always make things interesting. Check out our website! E-mail me at thehistoryofmedicinepodcast@gmail.com! Say hi on Facebook!   Transcripts and Sources here!

This week, we learn about the influence of genes on mental illnesses. Check out our website! E-mail me at thehistoryofmedicinepodcast@gmail.com! Say hi on Facebook!   Transcripts and Sources here!

This week, we learn about the development of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, the work of Aaron Beck, and finally get a lot better at talking to patients with mental illness. Send Aaron Beck a birthday greeting for his 100th birthday! Check out our website! E-mail me! Say hi on Facebook!   Transcripts and Sources here!

This week, we learn about Eric Kandel, who kickstarted researching brains to try to tackle mental illness. His weapon of choice: sea slugs. Check out our website! E-mail me! Say hi on Facebook!   Transcripts and Sources here!

This week, we figure out how to look at brains. Check out our website! E-mail me! Say hi on Facebook!   Transcripts and Sources here!

This week, we talk about Nathan Kline, who illustrates the new generation of psychiatrists that rose to prominence along with the new psychiatric drugs we've been talking about. Check out our website! E-mail me! Say hi on Facebook!   Transcripts and Sources here!

This week, we learn about yet another psychiatric medication discovered by accident, this time by John Cade. Check out our website! E-mail me! Say hi on Facebook! Transcripts and Sources here!  

This week, we'll learn about compound G22355, the first antidepressant, and how it was discovered through the weird stubbornness of one Roland Kuhn. Check out our website! E-mail me! Say hi on Facebook!   Transcripts and Sources here!

This week, we learn about the first antipsychotic drug, chlorpromazine. It's another accidental discovery, that revolutionizes psychiatry. Check out our website! E-mail me! Say hi on Facebook!   Transcripts and Sources here!

This week, we talk about the replacements for meprobamate, the first benzodiazepines, which got sold as Librium and Valium. Check out our website! E-mail me! Say hi on Facebook! Transcripts and Sources here!  

This week, we learn about the first medications applied to psychiatric patients. It started off pretty rough with morphine, but eventually, in the 1950s we got the first tranquilizer drugs, which were a big deal. Check out our website! E-mail me! Say hi on Facebook!   Transcripts and Sources here!

This week, we talk about convulsive therapy, or using seizures to treat mental illness, and then upgrade it using electricity. Check out our website! E-mail me! Say hi on Facebook!   Transcripts and Sources here!

This week, we pick some people's brains... literally. Leucotomies AKA lobotomies were first tried in Portugal, but quickly spread. Probably a little too quickly, we can say with hindsight. Check out our website! E-mail me! Say hi on Facebook!   Transcripts and Sources here!

This week, we finally start trying to treat severe mental illness. The earliest progress dates back to around the 1920s, which is when we started giving patients fevers on purpose, and dropping their blood sugar to induce comas. Not a great start. Check out our website! E-mail me! Say hi on Facebook!   Transcripts and Sources here!

Sorry this is a little late, was a bit under the weather last week. This episode, we talk about the creation of the Feigner criteria, which Spitzer used to radically change the DSM-III, and finally, the DSM-III gets released for real. Check out our website! E-mail me! Say hi on Facebook!   Transcripts and Sources here!

This week, we learn about Robert Spitzer, who would someday lead the effort to create the third edition of the DSM. But first, we learn about his interesting path to involvement with the DSM at all, and his role in de-classifying homosexuality as a mental illness. Check out our website! E-mail me! Say hi on Facebook!   Transcripts and Sources here!

This week, we talk about some of the weaknesses of the early DSM, namely that diagnosis was still pretty inconsistent, which leads to another credibility crisis for psychiatry. Check out our website! E-mail me! Say hi on Facebook!   Transcripts and Sources here!

This week, the lack of standards for diagnosis cause problems for the US military, and finally the psychiatrists themselves, leading to the creation of the first edition of the DSM. Check out our website! E-mail me! Say hi on Facebook!   Transcripts and Sources here!

This week we'll talk about the origins of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, or DSM for short. It starts with the United States census very unscientifically trying to study mental illness,  and Emil Kraepelin fixing things up over in Europe. Check out our website! E-mail me! Say hi on Facebook!   Transcripts and Sources here!

Sorry, no episode this week! My editor Jojo is sick, and I don't want to give her a big backlog of episodes to review until she's better. Stay safe everyone, and hopefully you'll hear from me next week.  Check out our website! E-mail me! Say hi on Facebook!  

This week, we talk about how psychoanalysts take over the practice of psychiatry in the United States, successfully infiltrating the American Psychiatric Association, Hollywood, and even a little bit of the government. Check out our website! E-mail me! Say hi on Facebook!   Transcripts and Sources here!