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English
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"For centuries, doctors have struggled to define mental illness--how do you diagnose it, how do you treat it, how do you even know what it is? In search of an answer, in the 1970s a Stanford psychologist named David Rosenhan and seven other people--sane, normal, well-adjusted members of society--went undercover into asylums around America to test the legitimacy of psychiatry's labels. Forced to remain inside until they'd "proven" themselves sane,...
2) Ward D
Author
Language
English
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Description
"Medical student Amy Brenner has dreaded her required overnight rotation assigned to Ward D, the hospital's locked inpatient mental health unit, so when patients and staff being to disappear during her shift, Amy is convinced her worst fears are coming true."--
3) Dark feed
Publisher
Lions Gate Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Insanity becomes contagious when a group of young professionals are terrorized while working in an abandoned psychiatric hospital, after it appears that insanity is spreading among them like a virus.
Author
Series
Publisher
SFWP
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Annita Sawyer's memoir is a harrowing, heroic, and redeeming story of her battle with mental illness, and her triumph in overcoming it. In 1960, as a suicidal teenager, Sawyer was institutionalized, misdiagnosed, and suffered through 89 electroshock treatments before being transfered, labeled as "unimproved" The damage done has haunted her life. Discharged in 1966, after finally receiving proper psychiatric care, Sawyer kept her past secret and moved...
Author
Publisher
University of Pennsylvania Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Asylum Ways of Seeing is a social history of psychiatric patient cultures in the twentieth-century United States. Heather Murray's angle is less institutional than cultural and intellectual. Rather than focusing, like so many books in the history of medicine, on the rise of the institution and its changing treatments over time, Murray attempts something much more challenging, especially in this age of patient confidentiality: she seeks to understand...
Publisher
Strand Releasing Home Video
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
Portuguese
Description
Returning to Rio de Janeiro, Dr. Nise Da Silveira returns to work in a psychiatric hospital on the outskirts of the city where she refuses to employ the new and violent electroshock in the treatment of schizophrenics. Ridiculed by doctors, she is forced to take on the abandoned Sector for Occupational Therapy, where she would start a revolution through painting, animals and love.
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