Episode 61: The Asylums Methods of Madness

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.