Tag: Mental Health TV Series

Introduction

Mysteries of Mental Illness explores the story of mental illness in science and society. The four-part series traces the evolution of this complex topic from its earliest days to present times. It explores dramatic attempts across generations to unravel the mysteries of mental illness and gives voice to contemporary Americans across a spectrum of experiences.

Outline

Cutting-edge treatments for mental illness; profiles of patients undergoing deep brain stimulation surgery, infusions of ketamine and modern electro-convulsive therapy.

Mysteries of Mental Illness Series

You can find a full index and overview of Mysteries of Mental Illness here.

Production & Filming Details

• Release Date: 23 June 2021.
• Running Time: 60 minutes (per episode).
• Rating: Unknown.
• Country: US.
• Language: English.

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Introduction

Mysteries of Mental Illness explores the story of mental illness in science and society. The four-part series traces the evolution of this complex topic from its earliest days to present times. It explores dramatic attempts across generations to unravel the mysteries of mental illness and gives voice to contemporary Americans across a spectrum of experiences.

Outline

The rise and fall of mental asylums in the US; the largest de-facto mental health facility in the US, its detainees and the realities of care both inside and outside.

Mysteries of Mental Illness Series

You can find a full index and overview of Mysteries of Mental Illness here.

Production & Filming Details

• Release Date: 23 June 2021.
• Running Time: 60 minutes (per episode).
• Rating: Unknown.
• Country: US.
• Language: English.

Video Link

Introduction

Mysteries of Mental Illness explores the story of mental illness in science and society. The four-part series traces the evolution of this complex topic from its earliest days to present times. It explores dramatic attempts across generations to unravel the mysteries of mental illness and gives voice to contemporary Americans across a spectrum of experiences.

Outline

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.

Mysteries of Mental Illness Series

You can find a full index and overview of Mysteries of Mental Illness here.

Production & Filming Details

• Release Date: 22 June 2021.
• Running Time: 60 minutes (per episode).
• Rating: Unknown.
• Country: US.
• Language: English.

Video Link

Introduction

Mysteries of Mental Illness explores the story of mental illness in science and society. The four-part series traces the evolution of this complex topic from its earliest days to present times. It explores dramatic attempts across generations to unravel the mysteries of mental illness and gives voice to contemporary Americans across a spectrum of experiences.

Outline

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).

Mysteries of Mental Illness Series

You can find a full index and overview of Mysteries of Mental Illness here.

Production & Filming Details

• Release Date: 22 June 2021.
• Running Time: 60 minutes (per episode).
• Rating: Unknown.
• Country: US.
• Language: English.

Video Link

Introduction

Mysteries of Mental Illness explores the story of mental illness in science and society. The four-part series traces the evolution of this complex topic from its earliest days to present times. It explores dramatic attempts across generations to unravel the mysteries of mental illness and gives voice to contemporary Americans across a spectrum of experiences.

Outline

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

Throughout history to today, we have continued to grapple with deceptively simple questions about mental health: what is mental illness? From where does it come? And how can it be treated?

Around one in four people suffer from mental illness; an American is more likely to need services from psychiatry than from any other medical specialty. Yet a diagnosis of a mental disorder still carries a stigma that a heart condition or other physical ailment does not, largely because mental illness has been so poorly understood for so long.

Many Americans’ diagnoses have grown more acute during the coronavirus pandemic, and people who had been previously undiagnosed – including many who remain so – are now suffering for the first time from depression and other illnesses that have been exacerbated by the present-day crises. One of the most critical barriers to treatment is the stigma of mental illness.

Mysteries of Mental Illness Series

• Episode 01: Evil or Illness?.
• Episode 02: Who’s Normal?.
• Episode 03: The Rise and Fall of the Asylum.
• Episode 04: The New Frontiers.

Production & Filming Details

• Director(s):
  • Peter Yost … (4 episodes, 2021).
• Producer(s):
  • Alex T. Ostroff … associate producer (4 episodes, 2021).
  • Peter Yost … producer (4 episodes, 2021).
  • Anna Auster … co-producer (2 episodes, 2021).
• Writer(s):
  • Peter Yost … (4 episodes, 2021).
• Music:
• Cinematography:
  • Tom Bergmann … (4 episodes, 2021).
• Editor(s):
  • Anna Auster … (4 episodes, 2021).
• Production:
  • GBH.
• Distributor(s):
  • Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) (2021) (USA) (TV).
• Release Date: 22 June 2021 to 23 June 2022.
• Running Time: 60 minutes (per episode).
• Rating: Unknown.
• Country: US.
• Language: English.

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