Beneath the White Coats: Psychiatry, Eugenics, & the Forgotten Graves

Welcome back! Today, we take a break from the present-day chaos and time travel into a darker, hidden chapter of American history—where science, psychiatry, and ideology collided in horrifying ways.

You’ve heard of the Nazi doctors and eugenics experiments. But what if I told you America wrote the first drafts?

In this episode, we uncover:

• The roots of American psychiatry in racial theory, slavery, and eugenics

• How Benjamin Rush—yes, a signer of the Declaration of Independence—laid the ideological groundwork for mental illness as hereditary degeneracy

• The forced sterilizations upheld by Buck v. Bell (1927) and how the U.S. became the model for Nazi policies

• The chilling story of Letchworth Village and its anonymous mass graves

• And how psychiatry, once cloaked in "healing," has long been used to pathologize difference, enforce control, and erase dissent

We also connect these early systems of medical authoritarianism to today’s ideological capture of biology, medicine, and mental health.

If you care about history, truth, and the unseen roots of the institutions shaping our world, this episode is for you.
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