Putting people away

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.

Credits

producer

Mark Hamlyn

Language

English

Duration

00:49:00:00

Colour

Production places

Australia

Production dates

1984

Collection metadata

ACMI Identifier

34014

Subject categories

Advertising, Film, Journalism, Mass Media & TV → Television

Anthropology, Ethnology, Exploration & Travel → Institutional care

Documentary

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

Television

Sound/audio

Sound

Holdings

VHS; Access Print (Section 1)

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