Mysteries of Mental Illness
7.8
2021
Documentary
The attempts across generations to unravel the mysteries of mental illness, including its causes and treatments.
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EP1 - Evil or Illness?
June. 22,2021
Ancient conceptions of mental illness and the establishment of psychiatry; modern-day stories of mental illness, including an aspiring astrophysicist with schizophrenia a d a boxer with obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD).
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EP2 - Who's Normal?
June. 22,2021
The fight to develop mental illness standards rooted in empirical science rather than dogma; how science and societal factors mix with the ever-shifting definitions and diagnoses of mental health and illness.
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EP3 - The Rise and Fall of the Asylum
June. 23,2021
The rise and fall of mental asylums in the U.S.; the largest de-facto mental health facility in the U.S., it's detainees and the realities of care both inside and outside.
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