Two superb Fresh Air interviews this week. First off Glenda Jackson electrifies us with her discussion of her film career, her undertaking of King Lear currently on Broadway, and the dynamism of her twenty-three years in British Parliament. The other podcast deals with the new book “Mind Fixers” by Anne Harrington. She explains why pharmaceutical companies are leaving the psychiatric field due to the discovery of the “placebo effect.” When drug companies realized they had to beat a placebo, the cost became prohibitive.
Glenda Jackson’s Son Didn’t Know She Was a Famous Actress – YouTube
Mind Fixers Psychiatry’s Troubled Search for the Biology of Mental Illness Audiobook – YouTube
Actor Glenda Jackson Is King Lear : NPR
How Psychiatry Turned To Drugs To Treat Mental Illness : NPR
Excerpt from Anne Harrington’s “Mind Fixers” | Harvard Magazine
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