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In Two Minds : Is Mental Illness Really an Illness?-Madness
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The anti-psychiatry movement of the 1960s held that identifying people as mentally ill was a convenient way to control segments of the population considered to be socially undesirable. Two centurie...
The anti-psychiatry movement of the 1960s held that identifying people as mentally ill was a convenient way to control segments of the population considered to be socially undesirable. Two centuries earlier, Enlightenment philosophers reasoned that if insanity could be traced to physiological defects, it might then be assumed that human beings are no more than somatically-driven automatons without free will. This program examines these and other notions about labeling mental illness, and also looks at research that suggests a neurological basis for schizophrenia.
Details
- Creator
- BBC Worldwide Ltd
- Format
- Videos, Slides, Films
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- New York, N.Y. : Films Media Group, [2012], c1991
- Series
- Physical Details
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- 1 streaming video file (59 min.) : sd., col., digital file
- digital
- data file
- OCLC
- ocn820954207
- Credits
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- Includes appearances by Kate Millett, R. D. Laing, and Michel Foucault
- Access requires authentication through Films on Demand.
- Encoded with permission for digital streaming by Films Media Group on August 13, 2012.
- Films on Demand is distributed by Films Media Group for Films for the Humanities & Sciences, Cambridge Educational, Meridian Education, and Shopware.
- Mode of access: Internet.
- System requirements: FOD playback platform.
- Closed-captioned.
- Symptoms of Schizophrenia (3:26) -- Madness and Brain Changes (2:05) -- Madness and Brain Changes (4:07) -- Cause of Mental Disease (2:29) -- R. D. Laing on Psychosis (3:51) -- Controlling Socially Unmanagable People (1:08) -- Patients Outside the Asylum (3:18) -- Residential Accommodations (2:43) -- Patient's Rights (3:53) -- Drop-In Mental Health Center (3:22) -- Is Mental Illness a Disease? (3:13) -- Two Types of Mental Disorders (3:08) -- Symptoms and Schizophrenia (3:22) -- What Is Illness? (4:38) -- Mental Disease or Accident of Birth? (2:10) -- Mixed Bag Called Schizophrenia (5:38) -- Dr. Miller's Concluding Remarks (4:39) -- Credits: In Two Minds: Is Mental Illness Really an Illness?-Madness (1:35)