Fall Asleep to the History of Psychiatry | Asylums, Freud & the Modern Mind

Podcast: Sleep Stories from the Pioneers · Pioneers of Human Behaviour

Opublikowano: 2026-09-30

Fall asleep to the history of psychiatry — a calm journey through more than two thousand years of changing ideas about mental distress, from ancient medicine and the rise of the asylum to Freud, psychiatric medication, community care and modern debates about diagnosis. Tonight, we follow the changing ways people have tried to understand and respond to psychological suffering across different periods of history. We begin with medicine in the ancient Mediterranean before moving through knowledge preserved, debated and developed across Arabic and other scholarly traditions. From there, we encounter Robert Burton’s The Anatomy of Melancholy, the...