Mysteries of Mental Illness

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).

The rise and fall of mental asylums in the U.S.; the largest de-facto mental health facility in the U.S., its detainees and the realities of care both inside and outside.