In this episode, AI Voice and I sit in a Paris cafe and discuss the topic of social construction and the philosophy of Ludwig Wittgenstein. If you are interested in learning more about Wittgenstein, then a great place to start is Ray Monk's biography Ludwig Wittgenstein: The Duty of Genius (Penguin: 1990).

TW: This episode discusses suicide.

In this episode, we consider the chart of a boy named Devan who has seven major diagnoses listed in his chart. But what exactly that means is far from obvious ....

Works mentioned in this podcast:

Andrew Scull, Desperate Remedies: Psychiatry's Turbulent Quest to Cure Mental Illness (Harvard: 2022).

Ethan Watters, Crazy Like Us: The Globalization of the American Psyche (Free Press: 2010).

Moncrieff, Joanna, Ruth E. Cooper, Tom Stockmann, Simone Amendola, Michael P. Hengartner, and Mark A. Horowitz. "The serotonin theory of depression: a systematic umbrella review of the evidence." Molecular psychiatry (2022): 1-14.

In this episode, I examine a series of questions about the nature of the unconscious mind. The book referenced in the show is:

Richard Ofshe and Ethan Watters, Making Monsters: False Memories, Psychotherapy, and Sexual Hysteria (University of California Press: 1994)

*Please excuse the inconsistent audio quality, I'm still getting used to the equipment. It should improve in later episodes. :)