The Wrong Body

About the Episode

In 1973, when the American Psychiatric Association removed homosexuality from the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, it did not help those like Mia Yamamoto, who question their gender identity. Mia spent most of her life being made to feel like she was 'mentally ill', even by therapists. The delisting of homosexuality exposed the fluid, even arbitrary nature of a diagnosis.

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Extras

Ginny Fuchs and OCD

Olympic boxer Ginny Fuchs shares a little of what it's like to live with OCD.

4:15
Cynthia Piltch and Electroconvulsive Therapy

Cynthia is turning to ECT, or Electroconvulsive Therapy, to manage her severe depression.

3:54
The Mass Incarceration of the Mentally Ill

Asylums were closed down, but the mentally ill are still being institutionalized.

2:55
Psychedelics and Mental Illness

A chemist accidentally created the psychedelic, LSD, while searching for new medications.

3:18
The Kirkbride Asylum

Kirkbride's 'hospitals for the insane' were built for those who had nowhere else to go.

3:08
Experimental Treatments and the Rise of Eugenics

What gave rise to the Eugenics program in the United States?

5:47
A Debilitating Condition

For 8 years, Matthew Rosenberg has dealt with a debilitating form of OCD.

2:13
The Asylum Hill Project

Some 30,000 patients came through the Mississippi State Asylum, and many never left.

5:21
Episode 1 Preview: Evil Or Illness

Episode 1 explores ancient ideas of mental illness and the establishment of psychiatry.

2:25
Mysteries of Mental Illness | Preview

Mysteries of Mental Illness explores the story of mental illness in science and society.

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