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1 online resource (streaming video file) (1 hr. 0 min. 21 sec.) ; 366851777 bytes |
| Series |
Changing Minds: The Inside Story ; Series 1, Episode 1 |
| Summary |
*Adult Themes, Coarse Language*For the first time in Australian television history, a documentary series has been filmed inside one of the busiest mental health units in the country. Brave, raw and sometimes funny, the three-part series Changing Minds goes behind the locked doors of Liverpool Hospital's Mental Health Unit to meet the patients and staff who are challenging the stigma and taboos that exist around mental illness. Patients agreed to be filmed while mentally unwell and then consented formally once they recovered their health. Their stories reveal the realities of 21st century psychiatric care.Over the series we meet... Patrick, a high flying IT specialist who clung to the bull bar of a speeding truck for 20 minutes during a manic episode; Sandra, the loveable grandmother who loses her grip on reality after the death of her brother; Rebecca, who's convinced she needs a psychic not a psychiatrist to help her; and Steven, as he prepares to undergo possibly psychiatry's most misunderstood treatment: electroconvulsive therapy.Changing Minds follows these patients as they, with the help of the staff, work towards regaining their health. By following Clinical Director Dr Mark Cross and his team, taboos are challenged, stigmas confronted and the message is clear - help is available. Mental illness is just that, an illness, not a defect of character.Changing Minds screens during ABC Mental As... A week-long initiative in support of Mental Health Week which aims to encourage Australians to start talking about mental illness and to give to mental health research. #mentalas #changingminds PRODUCTION DETAILS:Eye Spy Productions. Executive producer: Karina Holden |
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Broadcast 2014-10-07 at 20:30:00 |
| Notes |
Classification: M |
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Liverpool Hospital (N.S.W.)
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Mental health services.
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Mental illness -- Psychological aspects.
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Mental illness -- Social aspects.
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Mentally ill -- Care.
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Psychiatric hospital patients.
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Australia.
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Streaming video
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| Author |
O'Clery, Cian, director
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Porter, Susie, cast
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Bhuiyan, Samira, contributor
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Cross, Mark, contributor
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Suos, Sotha, contributor
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