00 / 00

An interview with journalist and historian Otto Friedrich

BROADCAST: Feb. 27, 1976 | DURATION: 00:53:57

When Otto Friedrich wrote his book, Going Crazy: An Inquiry Into Madness in Our Time, his intention was to find out from those with mental illness what it was like to go crazy. Of the people Friedrich asked, about a third of them were treated with professional help, a third were helped with medications, and the other third preferred to be left alone.

*Please note: some sections have been edited out from the original recording due to copyright considerations

Broadcast Date
Feb. 27, 1976

Duration
53 minutes, 57 seconds

Jan. 31, 1995

Jun. 2, 1989

Jan. 23, 1997

Sep. 29, 1975

Mar. 9, 1989

Nov. 19, 1963