The Three Ages of Treating Madness: Confinement, Conversation, Chemicals
Mad in America
JUNE 5, 2025
The messiness of human suffering was sorted into categories, each with a matching pharmaceutical solution. With insurance backing the shift, psychiatry secured dominancenot through healing, but through efficiency. The Pill Becomes the Cage By the 1990s, psychiatry had secured its second conquest. It was a triumph of efficiency.
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