films – A New Vision for Mental Health

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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Canada, documentary film, embodied care work, Eve Parade, films, Mad in Canada, New Approaches, psychosis, Rebeccah Love

Primum non Nocere: A Psychiatrist’s Review of “Medicating Normal”

Author: Editorial 29th July 2021 0 Comments

This blog post come from psychiatrist Dr. Awais Aftab. It begins: “I was lucky to see a screening copy of the documentary Medicating Normal (2020, directors: Lynn Cunningham & Wendy Ractliffe) earlier this weekend, and this post is intended partly as a review and…
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Awais Aftab, drug withdrawal symptoms, films, Medicating Normal, pharmaceutical industry, psychiatry

Medicating Normal (a film)

Author: Editorial 20th August 2020 1 Comment

Medicating Normal is a film from Periscope Moving Pictures. A virtual screening will take place on Sat, August 22, 2020 6:00 PM – 9:00 PM BST, followed by an interactive discussion. Details from here . Film synopsis: “Medicating Normal follows the journeys…
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depression, drug withdrawal symptoms, films, insomnia, Periscope Moving Pictures, pharmaceutical industry, Psychiatric Drugs, stress, trauma

Healing Voices

Author: Editorial 19th June 2020 0 Comments

“Healing Voices” is a documentary directed by PJ Moynihan and co-produced by PJ Moynihan and Oryx Cohen. It comes from Digital Eyes Film and is described as: “… an award-winning documentary which explores the experiences commonly labeled as ‘psychosis’ in…
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documentary, extreme states, films, hearing voices, psychiatry, psychosis, schizophrenia, videos

Mental Health, Psychiatry and the Arts: A Teaching Handbook

Author: Editorial 24th May 2019 0 Comments

This teaching handbook has been edited by Victoria Tischler. The publishers say: “This comprehensive book explores how visual art, cinema, music, poetry, literature and drama can inform the teaching and practice of psychiatrists and mental health professionals. Edited and written by…
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art of healing, art therapy, arts, books, cinema, drama, films, literature, music, poetry, psychiatry, Victoria Tischler, visual art

Take These Broken Wings: Recovery from ‘Schizophrenia’ Without Medication

Author: Editorial 21st May 2018 0 Comments

Released in 2008, this film is directed by Daniel Mackler and looks at how that people can recover fully from ‘schizophrenia’ without psychiatric medication … when (says the film director) “according to most of the mental health field, and of…
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Catherine Penney, Daniel Mackler, films, Joanne Greenberg, medication, pharmaceutical drugs, psychotherapy, schizophrenia

Healing Homes: recovery from psychosis without medicine

Author: Editorial 23rd April 2018 0 Comments

Healing Homes is a feature-length documentary film, directed by Daniel Mackler, which chronicles the work of the Family Care Foundation (Gothenburg, Sweden) who, in this era of multi-drug cocktails and psychiatric diagnoses-for-life, run programmes to help people recover from psychosis without medication. The organisation, backed…
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Daniel Mackler, families, farm families, films, Healing Homes, medication-free recovery, psychiatry, psychosis, videos

Cause of Death: Unknown

Author: Editorial 1st November 2017 0 Comments

This is a new film that investigates the pharmaceutical industry and deaths from psychiatric drugs (it claims that anti-psychotic drugs have been responsible for at least 200,000 deaths). You can watch a 2½ minute trailer here . The promotional text for…
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Anniken Hoel, anti-psychotic drugs, films, pharmaceutical companies, psychiatry

Mad to Be Normal

Author: Editorial 23rd October 2017 1 Comment

The Guardian newspaper says: “David Tennant gives a brilliant performance as RD Laing, the radical psychiatrist who rewrote the rules on mental health treatment.” The review continues: “David Tennant is on pugnacious, mercurial and beady-eyed form in this very interesting…
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ECT, films, Psychiatric Drugs, psychiatry, RD Laing

Neurodiverse film talent development

Author: Editorial 3rd March 2017 0 Comments

Different Voices is a neurodiverse film talent development programme from 104 films and biggerhouse film . It builds on their experience of developing the feature film Dawn of the Dark Fox (watch a clip here ) – the first feature film directed by an autistic film maker,…
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autistic spectrum, Culture & Society, diversity, films, neurodiversity, videos