243. Sally Satel on Addiction, the Opioid Crisis, Deaths of Despair, and How Psychiatry Has Gone Woke
The Michael Shermer Show
Michael Shermer
4.4 • 921 Ratings
🗓️ 22 January 2022
⏱️ 126 minutes
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Summary
Shermer and Satel discuss: how political correctness has corrupted medicine; how wokeness and social justice activism has corrupted psychiatry; what is social justice and who is really practicing it?; medical models of mental illness and addiction and why mental illness is so hard to treat; addictions to porn and social media; why some people are able to break free from their addictions while others are not; organ transplant markets, and more…
Dr. Sally Satel is a visiting professor of psychiatry at Columbia University’s Vagelos College of Physicians & Surgeons, a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, a lecturer at Yale University School of Medicine, and a practicing psychiatrist. She holds an MD from Brown University and completed her residency in psychiatry at Yale University. Satel is the author of PC, MD: How Political Correctness is Corrupting Medicine, Brainwashed: The Seductive Appeal of Mindless Neuroscience (with Scott Lillienfeld), and One Nation Under Therapy: How the Helping Culture Is Eroding Self-Reliance (with Christina Hoff Sommers). Dr. Satel lives in Washington, DC.
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to the Michael Sherman Shower |
| 0:19.4 | Welcome to the Michael Sherman Show. I'm your host Michael Sherman. My guest today is Dr. Sally Satell. Dr. Satell is a visiting professor of psychiatry at Columbia University's Vagolose College of Physicians and |
| 0:27.6 | Surgeons, a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, a lecturer at Yale University School of Medicine, and a practicing psychiatrist. |
| 0:37.0 | She specializes in addictions. |
| 0:40.0 | She holds an MD from Brown University and completed her residency in psychiatry at Yale University. |
| 0:47.0 | The Tell is the author of PCMD, how political correctness is corrupting medicine, brainwashed the |
| 0:56.3 | seductive appeal of mindless neuroscience, which she co-authored with the late |
| 1:01.4 | Scott Lillianfeld. |
| 1:03.6 | And One Nation Under Therapy, |
| 1:05.9 | How the Helping Culture is Aroading Self-Reliance |
| 1:09.8 | with Christina Hoff-Sommers. |
| 1:11.9 | Dr. Sattel lives in Washington, D.C. |
| 1:14.0 | So it triggered this conversation beyond just that I'm a big fan of her |
| 1:18.4 | writings and works and have been reading her and watching her lectures and so forth in media appearances for decades. |
| 1:25.2 | She's really great. Is a article she just wrote for Quilette called |
| 1:30.5 | What is Happening to My Profession? Her Profession Being. called what is happening to my profession, |
| 1:33.7 | the profession being, psychiatry in particular |
| 1:36.4 | in medicine in general. |
| 1:39.0 | In particular, and I read portions of this |
| 1:41.2 | in the podcast, but let me just read this again from this. Her |
| 1:44.8 | concern is this that was just released in October of 2021 from the American |
| 1:50.4 | Medical Association a 54-page document titled Advancing Health Equity, |
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