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Browse 6 movies from Oklahoma State Department of Health
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.
Jan 1953
A short film portrays the events of a depressed man's day, culminating, presumably, in his suicide, though the ending is ambiguous. Afterwards, a roundtable of mental hygiene professionals and social workers examine the film, while discussing the phenomenon of suicide more broadly.
Jan 1964
Why are children afraid? Where do their fears come from? In FEARS OF CHILDREN, a young boy is afraid. His parents have difficulties with his fear. In turn, their son unexpectedly resolves these issues in unusual way. It is the 1950s after all. Things were different then. Or were they?
Jan 1951
Hugh has lost his "zest for living" and it seems like the women in his life are mostly to blame.
Jan 1961
Jane's malevolent pendulum clock mocks humanity's careless, accident-prone ways.
One of a series of films on emotional problems in business, industry - and life itself.
Jan 1962