This podcast is essential listening for anyone interested in the state of modern psychiatry. Professor Brendan Kelly, polymath, bibliophile, cinephile, music lover, and keen traveller, is one of Ireland’s most prolific medical authors and advocates for the public understanding of mental illness. His recent book, In Search of Madness, is an elegant, concise and often witty history of mental healthcare’s global evolution, from ancient times to the present. In this wide-ranging conversation, which starts with the book, he touches on the fundamentally societal and lifestyle drivers of and remedies for mental illness, the challenges of homelessness, the remarkable but little-remarked-upon effectiveness of many modern psychiatric medications, the debate around cannabis legalisation, and much much more.

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