Understanding aggression

United Kingdom, 1960

Film
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Intended for teaching psychiatric nursing, this is a study of aggression, a normal reaction which the well-balanced person learns to control but which presents a difficult problem in the psychiatric hospital.

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Credits

director

Margaret Thomson

producer

Ronald H. Riley

production company

R.H.R. Productions

Duration

00:22:30:00

Production places
United Kingdom
Production dates
1960

Collection metadata

ACMI Identifier

011316

Language

English

Subject categories

Education, Instruction, Teaching & Schools → Nursing - Study and teaching

Educational & Instructional

Educational & Instructional → Instructional

Food, Health, Lifestyle, Medicine, Psychology & Safety → Aggressiveness (Psychology)

Food, Health, Lifestyle, Medicine, Psychology & Safety → Mental illness

Food, Health, Lifestyle, Medicine, Psychology & Safety → Psychiatric nursing

Food, Health, Lifestyle, Medicine, Psychology & Safety → Psychiatry

Short films

Short films → Short films - Great Britain

Sound/audio

Sound

Colour

Black and White

Holdings

16mm film; Access Print (Section 1)

16mm film; Limited Access Print (Section 2)

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