243. Sally Satel on Addiction, the Opioid Crisis, Deaths of Despair, and How Psychiatry Has Gone Woke

<p>Shermer and Satel discuss: how political correctness has corrupted medicine; how wokeness and social justice activism has corrupted psychiatry; what is social justice and who is really practicing it?; medical models of mental illness and addiction and why mental illness is so hard to treat; addictions to porn and social media; why some people are able to break free from their addictions while others are not; organ transplant markets, and more…</p> <p>Dr. Sally Satel is a visiting professor of psychiatry at Columbia University’s Vagelos College of Physicians & Surgeons, a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, a lecturer at Yale University School of Medicine, and a practicing psychiatrist. She holds an MD from Brown University and completed her residency in psychiatry at Yale University. Satel is the author of <em>PC, MD: How Political Correctness is Corrupting Medicine</em>, <em>Brainwashed: The Seductive Appeal of Mindless Neuroscience</em> (with Scott Lillienfeld), and <em>One Nation Under Therapy: How the Helping Culture Is Eroding Self-Reliance</em> (with Christina Hoff Sommers). Dr. Satel lives in Washington, DC.</p>