Learning on ScreenOut of Our Minds
- Synopsis
- 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 being mentally ill in hospital. Provides an insight into the debate into the closure of Victorian psychiatric hospitals and the rehabilitation of patients by means of ‘community care’.
- Series
- Mind’s Eye, Series
- Language
- English
- Country
- Great Britain
- Medium
- Video; Videocassette. VHS. col. 52 min.
- Year of production
- 1986
- Availability
- Hire
Sale - Documentation
- 'Six Bullets’, a collection of poems by the Fairfield Writers Group accompanies the tape.
- Subjects
- Sociology
- Keywords
- community health services; mental illness; psychiatric hospitals
Credits
- Director
- Greg Lanning
- Producer
- Sharon Goulds
- Contributor
- Roma Barnes
Sponsor
- Name
Channel Four Television
- Phone
- 071-396 4444
- Address
- LONDON
SW1P 2TX
Distributor
- Name
Concord Media
- sales@concordmedia.org.uk
- Web
- http://www.concordmedia.org.uk/ External site opens in new window
- Phone
- 01473 726 012
- Address
- Rosehill Centre
22 Hines Road
Ipswich
IP3 9BG - Notes
- A long-established, not-for-profit organisation with a large collection DVDs, specialising in the sectors of general and mental health, child care, race relations, war and peace, addictions, the third world, ecology, civil rights, personal relationships, educational issues, and social work training. Concord also handles titles made for the Graves Medical Audio-visual Library. Sale on DVD. Formerly known as Concord Video and Film Council. In 2014 Concord began to offer selected films as Video on Demand, via Vimeo.
- Name
Television History Centre
- Phone
- 020 7405 6627
- Fax
- 020 7242 1426
- Address
- 42 Queen Square
LONDON
WC1N 3AJ
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