SUSANNE PAOLA ANTONETTA is the author of The Terrible Unlikelihood of Our Being Here and numerous other works of nonfiction, fiction, and poetry. Her accolades include a New York Times Notable Book, an American Book Award, a Library JournalBest Science book, and others. She writes for Psychology Today, The New York Times, The Huffington Post, The UK Independent,The Hill, Orion, andThe New Republic and has been featured on CNN. Today we on our show we talk to Susanne about her most recent book “The Devil’s Castle Nazi Eugenics, Euthansia, and How Psychiatry’s Troubled History Reverberates Today” A book that helps us uncover the forgotten history of eugenics in its darkest moments and the unsettling ways its logic lingers, within present day psychiatric practices. Susanne’s work challenges us to acknowledge and correct past injustices and how to transform the future of how humanity can support the value of the mind.
