” ABNORMAL BEHAVIOR: A MENTAL HOSPITAL ” 1974 PSYCHOLOGY FILM TREATMENT OF MENTALLY ILL XD50364
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Produced by CRM productions in conjunction with Psychology Today this educational film titled “Abnormal Behavior: A Mental Hospital” from 1974 takes the viewer around Gateways Hospital and Community Health Center in Los Angeles (founded in 1953 and still in operation). Specifically, the film sheds light on the day to day happenings at what is considered “a modern psychiatric hospital” and how the hospital works to treat its patients battling schizophrenia. The film follows the story of four patients and highlights staff members such as Mr. Louis Ziskind, Dr. Solon Samuels (a famed psychiatrist who pioneered use of lithium to treat manic-depressive disorders), pathologist Dr. Joseph Pessin, Dr. Jerome Jacobson, Dr. Albert J. Boner, Dr. Martin Coleman, and Alyce Wade Urbach through interviews and footage of them interacting with patients. In addition to the contributions and appearances of the hospital staff, the film utilized the expertise of advisor Albert Mehrabian Ph.D. UCLA, series advisor George S. Reynolds Ph.D. UC San Diego and consultant Michael Crichton. The film was additionally directed by Neil Reichline and Tom Lazarus, photographed by Neil Reichline and featured Bill Kaplan as head of sound and Cliff Fenneman as editor.
Man walking woman down hallway of a mental hospital (0:39). Freeze frame with title of film (1:16). Close-up of a woman’s face (2:07). Administrator of the hospital, Mr. Ziskind, talking to camera (2:13). Observational laboratory (3:02). Interview with a young male patient in an observational laboratory – interviewer has the subject recite presidents in backwards order starting with President Nixon (3:55-6:55). A doctor explains the purpose of the memory test and impacts of antipsychotic medication (7:04). A doctor walks halls and points out bedrooms (8:13). Another doctor Interviews woman from the opening credits who is a patient named Telly who first came to the hospital on Easter, she displays symptoms of acute psychotic break (8:44-12:38). Mr. Ziskind walks the grounds of the facility explaining the structure and scheduling of activities for patients (12:38). A doctor walks hand in hand with a patient exhibiting catatonic panic and then gives an explanation of the phenomenon (13:24). Footage of this patient on a different day being guided through the hospital ward (14:55). A doctor has an interview with a middle-aged male patient, close-up shots of gesticulations (15:13). Doctor sits in his office and gives an explanation on the patient’s prognosis (17:18). Another doctor gives an explanation on electroshock therapy or electro convulsive treatment aka electroconvulsive therapy (17:57). Previously interviewed middle-aged male patient undergoes this therapy (18:26-22:36). Elderly female patient gets interviewed (22:38). A doctor gives a prognosis on this patient’s state (23:07). Freeze frame of this doctor comforting the female patient and voice-over explanation of how anxiety can trigger such a psychotic episode (26:13).
CRM productions was a division of McGraw-Hill that produced educational programs.
Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) is a medical treatment most commonly used in patients with severe major depression or bipolar disorder that has not responded to other treatments. ECT involves a brief electrical stimulation of the brain while the patient is under anesthesia.
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21 Comments
Very bad treatment for individuals with mental problems! So inhumane! 😭
That last statements says everything. We need to look at EVERYONE as sick basically. Well they have certainly accomplished that, for the detriment of society.
Reality patients are busy looking for a hospital that have cigarettes mean while abnormal behavior of CIA doctors and staff scare of a patient male might punch them
Ask a university doctor:
Mental patients are not violent
CIA doctors are known to be violent to females patients rape by CIA doctors
CIA actors
Эксперименты над людьми запрещены. Психологическое давление запрещено. Психиатрические лечебницы запрещены Сувереном.
subject, not patient. no more questions. it was birkenau 2.0
That guy knew those presidents! I’m not so sure I could do that!
5:18 Quentin Tarentino
If you ask ANY Gen Z on the street, "name the last 5 president's" OR "take 7 from 100, and keep subtracting 7" they would do worse than these two. The black lady seems like she was secretly dosed with LSD by the CIA.
I worked at the Evansville Indiana State Hospital for almost ten years. Saw one person get better and actually leave. There were a couple hundred patients. The building was built in 1944 and was very similar to the one used in One flew over the coocoos nest. Paranoid schizophrenics are the worst off, all day long thinking THEY can hear me, see me through the TV. Some were so preoccupied with reading the Bible every day, all day. One woman believed she was a cat. A man on the worst ward shoved a tooth brush up his penis hole. I could go on and on.
funniest shit ever
When I was a teenager in the early 70s several of my friends took Acid.
About 6 or 7 of them had bad trips and were restrained and transported to the Ancora Psychiatric Hospital on different occasions.
When i visited them they did in fact acknowledge who I was, but could not recall our childhood years as if it had been wiped out.
Some of them were classically trained musicians and skilled players, but they couldnt play their instruments after the Acid trip. What they did play was nonsensical as if it had been wiped out. As if the Acid took their talent away.
They spent months in Ancora and when they were released they never resurfaced as musicians let alone people. They were never able to function in the community again. Can you explain this???
C'est pour ceux qui sortent ensemble. Qui parlent plusieurs langues européennes. C'est tout. 🎷📯🎺🎻🥁🎹
The dr talking to the black woman sounded so weird!
The fact he knows all those presidents.lol
Medications cause catatonic state, we are in 2024 wake up ppl those were people who probably still wanted labotamies. Medical treatment in the end a form of punishment, and the mental health workers hate to hear it but it’s the truth, blood work 2x a year that destroys the veins and supposedly supernormal people have infinite veins, truth is the whole thing is to punish the criminals and the poor. A good whooping works too Roman’s in the past will get depressed people to become active as the dr. Said in this video. However the issue is always deeper than what it looks like, these patients might not even know why they were initially hospitalized. Really is a lot of ethical questions even to this day.
My onset of Manic- Depression and other things happened the same year as this film .It brings back a lot memories .I also had 13 ECT's over a # of months ,but it is the very 1st time ,I've been able to witness the process .Now I know that Manic-Depression had not even been a diagnosed at that time . But eventually researchers coined that term and we now call it Bi-Polar . For me , Bi-Polar is a neat and polite term . But doesn't describe the Mania ,and dangerous depressions I experienced that the term Manic – Depression makes so clear . But thank Heaven I now have meds to treat and control the aliment .It changed my life ….
How could they say the young man was "retarded"? I hate that word. He named 4 past presidents. Someone with an intellectual disability wouldn't be able to name one.
Can you believe people brag about being "mentally ill" on tik tok today? They have bo idea how gross they are.
ECT gets a pretty bad rap thanks to "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" and other anti-psychiatric movies. Nowadays it's only done in cases of mania, catatonia or treatment-resistant depression where there's a demonstrated risk of self-harm. It's basically the brain's equivalent of doing a hard reboot on a computer. It's not the safest or most well-understood procedure, but if it's done as shown in the video, it can work miracles for patients who would otherwise be incurable.