# 213. "Psychiatry Is 90% a Scam" — A Psychiatrist Speaks Out

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Podcast: [Radically Genuine Podcast with Dr. Roger McFillin](https://stenobird.com/podcast/radically-genuine-podcast-with-dr-roger-mcfillin-3930946)
Published: 2026-01-01T08:00:00+00:00
Episode link: https://radicallygenuinepodcast.transistor.fm/213
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Duration seconds: 4230

## Resource

What happens when a psychiatrist trained in one of the most research-driven programs in the world starts asking questions nobody wants to answer? Dr. John Yaakov Guterson is a board-certified psychiatrist who trained at the prestigious Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic in Pittsburgh, once the top-funded psychiatric research program in the world. He served as medical director of multiple psychiatric hospitals for over 25 years while maintaining a private practice. Known as "The Singing Psychiatrist," Dr. Guterson has produced over 750 videos exploring the intersection of mental health, spirituality, and the human soul. In this conversation, we go where mainstream psychiatry refuses to go. We talk about what gets lost when you reduce the human soul to a checklist of symptoms. We explore whether suffering might actually mean something. And we ask a question the medical establishment has worked very hard to bury: What if we've been getting this wrong for a century?

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