Andrew Huberman· PhD
But this idea that this chemical imbalance idea is wrong. I really think that part's important because I think that, you know, for a while, I think psychiatry, you know, what I'll call psychiatry 1.0, right? This kind of idea of Freud and psychotherapy and its origins. It was a lot around, you know, your family and those experiences and psychotherapy kind of going in and correcting or helping you to figure out, and you know, you being able to see, or people hear you so that you can eventually come to the conclusion of certain cognitions that aren't helping you, right? And there's a huge importance there, but there's a history where, you know, things like the schizophrenogenic mother and all of that, you know, that was a concept at some point, right? And so we've transitioned from that to, you know, for a long time the chemical imbalance, which I'll call psychiatry 2.0. You know, this idea that there's something chemically missing and I think that the trouble there for a patient who's not a physician, who's not someone who's steeped in these sorts of ideas, who's, you know, more of kind of a person, kind of average American out there, right, is that it's sending a message of there's something missing with me, whether it be my experiences I had no control over when I was a child or a chemical in my brain.