Focuses on three intersex individuals who overcame shame, secrecy and unauthorized surgery throughout their childhoods to enjoy successful adulthoods, choosing to ignore medical advice to conceal their bodies and coming out as who they truly are.
Crownsville Hospital: From Lunacy to Legacy is a feature-length documentary film highlighting the history of the Crownsville State Mental Hospital in Crownsville, MD.
Een documentaire over één van de beroemdste bruggen van de wereld, de Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco. Leidraad van de documentaire is de onweerstaanbare aantrekkingskracht die de brug blijkt te hebben op mensen die zelfmoord willen plegen. De regisseur en zijn crew filmden heel 2004 de gebeurtenissen op de brug, waarbij ze getuige waren van meer dan twintig zelfmoordgevallen en nog een heel aantal die ze wisten te voorkomen. Tevens wordt gepraat met getuigen en nabestaanden van de gestorven springers.
Londen, 1761. St. Mary's of Bethlehem, een sinister gekkenhuis, wordt bezocht door rijke mensen die graag naar de patiënten kijken die daar als dieren worden opgesloten. Nell Bowen, een van de bezoekers, is geschokt door de erbarmelijke levensomstandigheden van de ongelukkige bewoners van deze godvergeten plek, beter bekend als Bedlam.
Jennifer Brea studeert psychologie aan de universiteit van Harvard. Ze staat op het punt met de liefde van haar leven trouwen. Maar dan krijgt ze een mysterieuze koorts die haar verplicht in bed te blijven. Wanneer de artsen vertellen dat het allemaal ingebeeld is besluit ze haar camera op zich te richten om de verwoestende symptomen te documenteren.
A talented painter, Max, in the height of his career is working on his masterpiece. He is convinced by his wife, Connie, to attend a therapy session after Max has an unexpected violent outburst at home. Max starts on a journey down the rabbit hole of his perceived reality.
For the past 20 years, the world has seen an alarming decrease in IQ and a rise of autism and behavioral disorders. This international scientific investigation reveals how chemicals in objects surrounding us affect our brain, and especially those of fetuses.
Filmmaker Stephen Hosier takes a journey with Richard Csanyi, his childhood friend, as he investigates the life and death of his twin brother Attila, who was found dead on a rooftop in 2020.
Na de zelfmoordpoging van zijn jongere broer Damir verandert het leven van Bruno drastisch.
Skyler, an ambitious and passionate mental health counselor at the Center for Missing Children, breaks protocol to team up with Mr. Wiggins, a grieving father in search for his daughter. As the story unfolds, peculiar things begin to happen and Skyler becomes the mediator between hurting families and spirits of the missing child. Her dedication to this missing girl's father is tested when the crime leads back to her hometown and she is forced to confront a psychopath she could never have imagined.
A lone, crisis-hotline operator receives a distressing call during her graveyard shift.
Toronto psychiatrist Gordon Warme M.D. claims to be a participant in a vital cultural ritual, “one of countless rituals that give relief to humans...the most culture-bound of creatures.”
Max talks about the different ways that we take care about ourselves and others as he introduces the concept of mental health to young viewers.
Case study documenting a patient’s treatment for paranoid schizophrenia. Made for health professionals, Mental Hospital shows daily life at the state facility, including hydrotherapy and electroconvulsive therapy sessions. The film ends with the patient’s discharge.
The complex and controversial history of the mental institution in the U.S. through a detailed study of St. Elizabeths Hospital in Washington, D.C.
After her release from involuntary hospitalization, “Annie” grapples with the trauma of her confinement, all while working as a lifeguard, a job that becomes increasingly challenging as she descends deeper into despair.