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BY OUR SELVES documents a four-day walk made by the English poet John Clare from an asylum in the Epping Forest up into Northamptonshire. Toby Jones, Iain Sinclair and a Straw Bear follow in his footsteps...
The practice of using shackles and chains to physically restrain people with mental illness (known as pasung) is widespread in Indonesia (as in many other developing/low middle income countries) and almost...
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...
Writer and theorist Mark Fisher speaks about his book ‘Capitalist Realism Is There no Alternative? (Zero Books 2009) in which he addresses the condition of ideological malaise produced by neo-liberal...
This video features the common clinical disorders covered in child psychiatry: depression and self harm; eating disorders; Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD); conduct disorder; somatisation;...
Independent short. The story follows a schizophrenic patient (Andrew Mills), who takes on the character of Iago from Othello and tries to bring its story to life re-imagined for the present day through the...
In 1972 an American scientist named Dr David Rosenhan performed an extraordinary experiment that revolutionised the study of mental health. He proved that psychiatry, the science of the mind, couldn’'t...
One of the biggest barriers to recovery from mental illness is stigma and discrimination. Rethink’s research and findings suggest that social contact is one of the factors most likely to promote more...
This personal documentary follows the filmmaker’s mother, Millie, and her family, in Millie’s battle with schizophrenia, and her trials and tribulations with the public health system. Millie was a single...
This programme explores the latest scientific research on the effects of cannabis on the human mind. In particular, the documentary considers evidence of links between cannabis and psychotic illness in young...
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