The Anxiety Podcast

Summary: This week we chat with Robert Whitaker about the myths and science behind psychiatric drugs. Robert is the author of five books. In 2010, his Anatomy of an Epidemic: Magic Bullets, Psychiatric Drugs, and the Astonishing Rise of Mental Illness won the U.S. Investigative Reporters and Editors book award for best investigative journalism. Prior to writing books, he worked as a science reporter at the Albany Times Union newspaper in New York for a number of years. He is the founder of madinamerica.com, a website that features research news and blogs by an international group of writers interested in “rethinking psychiatry.” Robert Whitaker’s work: https://www.madinamerica.com/ http://www.robertwhitaker.org/   In this episode you will learn: How did Robert get into writing about psychiatric medicine (4:00) The impetus for antipsychotic drugs (7:14) The idea of the Magic Bullet (10:42) What would happen if we actually had a miracle pill for anxiety? (13:27) Human resilience (18:00) Ticking that “I’m not g