Episode 133: Spooky Mental Health Treatments From History
The Hardcore Self-Help Podcast with Duff the Psych
Robert Duff, Ph.D.
4.5 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 1 November 2018
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
I did an episode last year around Halloween time about spooky social psychology experiments and what they say about humanity. I figured I'd keep the trend going and do an episode all about creepy treatments from the origin of psychological health care. Before listening any further, just know that some of these are cruel and gross. We've come a long way since the different treatments that I will talk about, but they are important in that they are the predecessors to the treatments that we have now. In some cases they were mean and cruel. In others they were well intentioned, but limited by the lack of knowledge that we have today. Either way, if you are sensitive to topics like this, feel free to skip this one.
Next week should be a more standard episode, so if you have a question or topic for me, send it to duffthepsych@gmail.com and the full show notes for this episode are available at duffthepsych.com/episode133.
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| 0:00.0 | In this episode I'm getting in the Halloween spirit and talking about creepy, spooky, psychological treatments that we don't use anymore. |
| 0:08.4 | But of course before that, a few disclaimers. |
| 0:11.2 | Hey everybody, before we start the show, I want to make a couple disclaimers. |
| 0:15.5 | This show does cover a wide variety of topics related to mental health and life in general, |
| 0:19.7 | and some of those could be sensitive for you. |
| 0:21.9 | I want to simultaneously encourage you to be |
| 0:23.9 | brave in consuming difficult content but also respect and recognize your |
| 0:28.0 | limitations. So please use your best judgment. I will never be offended if you need to |
| 0:32.4 | skip a question or an |
| 0:33.5 | episode entirely but feel free to feel it out check out the episode and just see |
| 0:37.5 | what happens if you need to skip that's okay but you know feel free to give it a |
| 0:40.6 | shot first. I also need to say that while I am a psychologist, I'm not your psychologist and I'm not your therapist. |
| 0:47.0 | This is not intended to be direct medical advice and you should not use this as a substitute for professional help. |
| 0:52.0 | So with those said, let's go ahead and |
| 0:54.1 | get into the show. All right. Hello friends of all varieties. |
| 1:13.8 | This is the Hardcore Health Help Podcast, episode 133. |
| 1:17.8 | I'm your host Dr. Robert Duff, aka Duff the Psych. |
| 1:20.9 | I make mental health content for real people just like you and today I am |
| 1:25.2 | getting in the Halloween spirit. Last year I did an episode around Halloween time |
| 1:29.9 | about scary spooky psychological experiments so like social psychology |
| 1:35.2 | experiments and what they say about humanity. It was a really fun episode you |
| 1:39.0 | could find that one from last year at episode 82 so Duffuff the psych com slash episode 82 really like doing that one and this year I'm not going to go as |
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