About this season
The attempts across generations to unravel the mysteries of mental illness, including its causes and treatments.
Episodes (4)
1. Evil or Illness?
Aired 22 June 2021
Ancient conceptions of mental illness and the establishment of psychiatry; modern-day stories of mental illness, including an aspiring astrophysicist with schizophrenia a d a boxer with obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD).
2. Who's Normal?
Aired 22 June 2021
The fight to develop mental illness standards rooted in empirical science rather than dogma; how science and societal factors mix with the ever-shifting definitions and diagnoses of mental health and illness.
3. The Rise and Fall of the Asylum
Aired 23 June 2021
The rise and fall of mental asylums in the U.S.; the largest de-facto mental health facility in the U.S., it's detainees and the realities of care both inside and outside.
4. The New Frontiers
Aired 23 June 2021
Cutting-edge treatments for mental illness; profiles of patients undergoing deep brain stimulation surgery, infusions of ketamine and modern electro-convulsive therapy.