• 2021
Mysteries of Mental Illness

Summary The attempts across generations to unravel the mysteries of mental illness, including its causes and treatments. View more details

  • 2021

Mysteries of Mental Illness

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Genres : Documentary

Release date : Jun 21, 2021

Official sites : Mysteries of Mental Illness

Production companies : GBH

Summary The attempts across generations to unravel the mysteries of mental illness, including its causes and treatments. View more details

Details

Genres : Documentary

Release date : Jun 21, 2021

Official sites : Mysteries of Mental Illness

Production companies : GBH

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Mysteries of Mental Illness (2021)

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Episode 1 • Jun 21, 2021
Evil or Illness?
Ancient conceptions of mental illness and the establishment of psychiatry; modern-day stories of mental illness, including an aspiring astrophysicist with schizophrenia a d a boxer with obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD).
Episode 2 • Jun 21, 2021
Who's Normal?
The fight to develop mental illness standards rooted in empirical science rather than dogma; how science and societal factors mix with the ever-shifting definitions and diagnoses of mental health and illness.
Episode 3 • Jun 22, 2021
The Rise and Fall of the Asylum
The rise and fall of mental asylums in the U.S.; the largest de-facto mental health facility in the U.S., it's detainees and the realities of care both inside and outside.
Episode 4 • Jun 22, 2021
The New Frontiers
Cutting-edge treatments for mental illness; profiles of patients undergoing deep brain stimulation surgery, infusions of ketamine and modern electro-convulsive therapy.
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