Robert Whitaker appears on the Third Wave podcast.
“What if some of the assumptions behind long-term SSRI prescribing were never as settled as most of us were led to believe?
In this episode of The Psychedelic Podcast, Paul F. Austin speaks with investigative journalist Robert Whitaker about the chemical imbalance theory, antidepressant history, SSRI withdrawal, and what psychedelic medicine can learn from psychiatry’s past. Whitaker traces how antidepressants evolved from short-term interventions into long-term treatment, what research has suggested about changes in the brain during psychiatric drug use, and why withdrawal can sometimes be interpreted as proof that a person still needs medication. The conversation then turns to psychedelics and whether medicalization risks recreating a drug-centered approach to mental health.”
