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Susanne Antonetta

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Author of The Devil's Castle

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 Journal Best Science book, and others. She writes for Psychology Today, The New York Times, Ms., The Huffington Post, The UK Independent, The Hill, Orion, and The New Republic and has been featured on CNN. She lives in Asheville, North Carolina. Her new book is The Devil's Castle: Nazi Eugenics, Euthanasia, and How Psychiatry’s Troubled History Reverberates Today.

Tales of Psychiatry Featuring Dr. Ellen Bassuk, Daniel Schoonover and Susanne Antonetta
April 19, 2026

Tales of Psychiatry Featuring Dr. Ellen Bassuk, Daniel Schoonover and…

In this episode, Dr. Ellen Bassuk, and her son, Daniel Schoonover, talk about the book they co-authored, Between Two Worlds, and the struggles they have encountered with America’s mental health system. Then, Susanne Antonetta, author of The Devil’s Castle, makes the correlation between the horrors …

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