Eric Caplan — When Healing Harms: The Doctor Who Put a Hospital on Trial—and the Case That Shook Psychiatry - with Sally Satel — at Conn Ave

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The legal case that changed psychiatry and forced a reckoning within the profession. In 1979, Dr. Raphael Osheroff admitted himself to Chestnut Lodge, a prestigious psychiatric hospital, expecting world class care for his severe depression. Instead, he was confined to a locked ward, denied medication, and subjected to seven months of talk therapy. The experience rendered him physically frail and emotionally devastated before his parents secured his transfer to a hospital willing to prescribe the antidepressants he desperately needed. But the damage was done: his marriage, his practice, and his reputation all lay in tatters. Then he did something unprecedented. He sued Chestnut Lodge. When Healing Harms https://politics prose.com/book/9780520409163 excavates the long bu…

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