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Essays on institutional failure

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Sep 18, 2026ACX

Your Book Review: This Is Going To Hurt

Two psychiatrists conduct an adversarial review of Adam Kay's 'This Is Going To Hurt,' debating whether his NHS memoir represents institutional failure causing PTSD or a self-inflicted martyr complex, while examining the book's comedy, structure, and impact on healthcare discourse.

84 min read 12,952 words

Jul 17, 2026ACX

Your Book Review: Great And Desperate Cures

A review of 'Great and Desperate Cures' by Elliot Valenstein, which examines the history of lobotomy and psychosurgery, explaining how tens of thousands of patients underwent dangerous brain operations from the 1930s-1950s despite poor evidence of effectiveness.

132 min read 20,439 words

1930s-1950s America bad science book review