This is Your Brain on Trial
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Psychiatry Is a Science, Not a Drug
The d s m is still only one of a surprisingly large number of techniques that might decide some one's fate in court. And it's one thing to fill out that form when you're with your doctor, but imagine if your freedom or custody of your children depended on how you answered those questions. We'll have more of andrew later on. He's going to give us the long history of madness, which is gloriously mad itself. The picture here is one of psychiatric experts repeatedly trying to prove their field is accurate and scientific and therefore relevant.
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