documentary film – A New Vision for Mental Health

On the Adamant (film)

Author: Editorial 14th February 2024 0 Comments

On the Adamant is a Golden Bear-winning documentary from Nicolas Philibert. The producers say: “The film is an affirming portrait of a floating day-care centre for people with psychiatric problems. Coming to UK cinemas and on Curzon Home Cinema from…
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Re-Imagining Psychosis with Filmmaker Rebeccah Love

Author: Editorial 18th January 2023 0 Comments

This interview with film director Rebeccah Love (about her film “Eve Parade”) has been published by Mad in Canada. The background to the interview is described: “On December 30 (2021), I sat down (virtually) with filmmaker/artist Rebeccah Love to discuss her…
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Cured: How mental illness was used as a tool against LGBT rights

Author: Editorial 29th March 2021 0 Comments

“In 1952 the APA’s manual had defined being gay as a ‘sociopathic personality disturbance’. It gave a supposedly scientific rationale to prejudices already widespread in the US and elsewhere.” Vincent Dowd reports for the BBC concerning the documentary film Cured: “Until…
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Magic Medicine

Author: Editorial 4th October 2019 0 Comments

Can magic mushrooms cure depression? The film’s website says: “Over 4 years, filmmaker Monty Wates was given exclusive access to the first ever medical trial to give psilocybin (the psychoactive ingredient in magic mushrooms) to a group of volunteers suffering…
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The Happy Pill

Author: Editorial 13th August 2018 0 Comments

The makers of this documentary film say: “Silje Marie Strandberg was seriously mentally ill. She had a heavy schizoaffective and dissociative disorder diagnose. She heard voices, hallucinated, cut herself, had an eating disorder and repeatedly tried to kill herself. She was so…
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