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Rosenhan’s Experiment (2011)

Subject

Psychiatry

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 20 minutes), £49.00

Can psychiatrists reliably detect insanity? Rosenhan set out to test if they could in his 1973 study. When all of his pseudo patients were diagnosed with psychiatric disorders, forced to remain in...

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Caring for the Mentally Handicapped (1975 Film)

Producer

Gordon Croton

Subject

Psychiatry

Distribution

Film (16mm)

Filmed at two psychiatric hospitals in Northumberland and Dorset. Emphasises modern concepts of rehabilitation including resettling in ‘half-way’ hostels.*

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Dingleton (1971 Film)

Director

Shirley Fisher

Producer

Desmond Wilcox

Subject

Psychiatry; Social welfare

Distribution

Film (16mm)

About the Dingleton Psychiatric Hospital in Scotland, which has an ‘open door’ policy. Patients have a say in their own and other patients’ treatment. Sensitivity sessions and group therapy are shown.

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Rosenhahn’s Experiment

Subject

Psychiatry; Psychology

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 20 minutes), £69.95

A five-part film examining Rosenhan’s ‘being sane in insane places’ study. This psychology DVD covers the context of the study in the 1970s anti-psychiatry movement, how the pseudo patients got...

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Every Little Thing (2006)

aka: Moindre des Choses, La

Subject

Drama; French studies; Mental Health and Counselling

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 100 minutes), £12.99

The protagonists in this film are the patients and staff at the La Borde psychiatric institute in France. Each summer they perform a play on a stage set in the grounds of the chateau. The film charts the...

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Silent Minority, The (1981)

Producer

Nigel Evans

Subject

Social welfare

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 60 minutes), £50.00

Looks at conditions inside the wards of two British mental hospitals: St Lawrence’s Hospital, Caterham, Surrey, and Borocourt Hospital, Reading, Berkshire, and at the way in which care for the mentally...

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Out of Our Minds (1986 Video)

Director

Greg Lanning

Producer

Sharon Goulds

Subject

Sociology

Distribution

Hire Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 52 min.

Made at the 19th-century Fairfield Hospital in Letchworth, Herts, the video is based on the work of a group of Fairfield patients whose poems and writings offer a first-hand account of the experience of...

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Any Place but Here (1979 Film)

Director

Tom Spain

Subject

Psychiatry

Distribution

Film (16mm)

Follows three psychiatric patients as they seek their release from hospital. Filmed at Creedmore Psychiatric Centre, New York, the documentary reveals the dissatisfaction of patients, staff and relations...

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Last Chance, The (1975 Video)

Producer

David Filkin

Subject

Social welfare

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 50 min., 2000 sale: £99.00 (+VAT +p&p)

Henderson Hospital in Surrey is a mental hospital where patients must make their own rules for social behaviour and face the consequences when these rules are broken. As children the patients have failed to...

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Compulsory Admission to Psychiatric Hospital, A. Part 1 (1983 Video)

Producer

Rod Ballard

Subject

Social welfare

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 30 min.

The new Mental Health Act has brought sharply into focus the training needs of workers who are going to be authorised to operate it. Shows the complete process of a compulsory admission from initial referral...

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