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Asylums were once imagined as places of healing—but behind locked doors, a darker history unfolded. From ice-pick lobotomies and unmedicated shock therapy to mind control experiments and so-called “cures” for nonconformity, this episode uncovers the brutal treatments once justified in the name of psychiatry—and the survivors who lived to tell the truth.
By Lattes On My MindAsylums were once imagined as places of healing—but behind locked doors, a darker history unfolded. From ice-pick lobotomies and unmedicated shock therapy to mind control experiments and so-called “cures” for nonconformity, this episode uncovers the brutal treatments once justified in the name of psychiatry—and the survivors who lived to tell the truth.