In this episode of Zach Talks About Stuff, I use a historical perspective to determine whether psychiatry is a sham, as some people believe.

Subject timestamps:

01:06 - A brief history of man's approach to mental health
28:28 - Why does psychiatry have a bad reputation?
32:57 - Current issues in mental health treatment that need to be improved

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Video Details

Psychiatry and mental health treatment tend to maintain a bad reputation compared to general health treatment. A non-trivial cross-section of society views mental health treatment as a kind of pseudoscience—a branch of medicine that is one big 'guess'.

Using the history of mental health treatment as a guide, I contend that the reason psychiatry has a bad reputation is because it has lagged behind general health treatment simply due to the logistical difficulty inherent in studying the brain. I also discuss current issues facing the field of mental health treatment, and how those issues can be addressed.