Episode #5
The Psychiatrist Who Left the System He Helped Build
Aug 21, 20266 minS1
<p>Before he became a critic of how psychiatric medication gets prescribed, this guest was inside the machine that builds it: a clinical development team at Johnson & Johnson's Janssen, then the FDA's division of psychiatry, reviewing the drugs that end up in nearly every American medicine cabinet. In this conversation, he explains why 15-minute appointments turned mental healthcare into a symptom checklist, how SSRIs like Prozac, Lexapro, and Zoloft work by blunting emotional range rather than addressing root cause, and the mismatch he says doctors rarely disclose: no antidepressant clinical trial has ever run longer than a year, while most...
