Episode number 4 of Series “Barriers of the Mind”.
Psychiatrists have the responsibility for deciding who should and who shouldn’t be locked away, whose behaviour is merely eccentric and who is in fact, mentally ill. This program looks at the effect on people’s civil liberties when they are forcibly detained and questions whether it is necessary for the mentally ill to be hospitalised at all.
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ACMI Identifier
016760
Language
English
Subject categories
Advertising, Film, Journalism, Mass Media & TV → Television
Anthropology, Ethnology, Exploration & Travel → Institutional care
Documentary → Documentary films - Australia
Economics, Philosophy, Politics, Religion & Sociology → Institutional care
Food, Health, Lifestyle, Medicine, Psychology & Safety → Medical ethics
Food, Health, Lifestyle, Medicine, Psychology & Safety → Mental illness - Treatment
Sound/audio
Sound
Colour
Colour
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VHS; Access Print (Section 1)