Chestnut Lodge: The Psychiatry Case That Still Matters (for TMS)

TMS gets a historical frame in this episode, using the Chestnut Lodge case and Rafael Osheroff’s lawsuit to explore how psychiatry changes when old assumptions fail patients. Dr. Steve Harvey and Dr. Greg Malzberg discuss psychoanalysis, medication, neuromodulation, and the danger of treating any one approach as the only legitimate answer. The conversation connects a famous psychiatry history case to today’s patients who cycle through depression medications without hearing about TMS, while also warning against turning TMS or any newer treatment into hype.

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