Name: Mysteries of Mental Illness
Released: 2021-06-22T07:00:00.000Z

TV Show · Documentary · Educational

Explore the evolution in understanding, and the dramatic attempts across generations, to unravel the difficult questions surrounding mental illness people have grappled with throughout history: What causes it? And how is it best treated?

2021 · 54m

EPISODE 1

Mysteries of Mental Illness

Ancient conceptions of mental illness and the establishment of psychiatry; modern-day stories of mental illness, including an aspiring astrophysicist with schizophrenia and a boxer with obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD).
EPISODE 2

Mysteries of Mental Illness

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.
EPISODE 3

Mysteries of Mental Illness

The rise and fall of mental asylums in the U.S.; the largest de-facto mental health facility in the U.S., its detainees and the realities of care both inside and outside.
EPISODE 4

Mysteries of Mental Illness

Cutting-edge treatments for mental illness; profiles of patients undergoing deep brain stimulation surgery, infusions of ketamine and modern electro-convulsive therapy.

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