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Documentary film about an asylum in Mexico, run by and for its inmates. The two disc edtion of the film features a number of extras: Antes Muerte - 48 mins; Interviews with patients - 16 mins; Running...
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...
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...
Two short programmes illustrating international aspects of psychiatry - PSYCHIATRY IN CHINA and THE REAL CHINA.
Excerpts from over 50 interviews present a picture of patients’ lives from admission to discharge in the old Victorian asylums, which, with the advent of community care, have closed down. The interviews...
A video-based training package for staff on acute psychiatric wards, based on the need for user involvement in staff training. In three sections, focusing on the questions, How would you feel if this were...
Series looking at a year in the life of a community mental health team based in South London. 1 (director Lorraine Heggessey): Follows a young black man with a history of paranoid schizophrenia who appears...
The Department of Psychiatry at the Royal South Hampshire Hospital in Southampton has an excellent record for the rehabilitation of patients with severe and chronic mental disorders, returning them to as...
A film interpretation during four years of psychiatry in Africa by an European-African crew. Traces the efforts a young male psychiatrist working in Guiné-Bissau as head of the Department of Mental Health....
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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