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.”
A grieving psychiatrist kidnaps a serial killer, hoping to cure him of his evil.
Ema tries to recover her memory, while a man in black threatens her, without knowing why.
Two lunatic con artists are released from prison on one condition - that they attend mandatory therapy with a court-appointed psychiatrist.
In this interview, psychiatrist Dr Stanislav Grof, MD and his wife Christina explain holotropic breathwork, and discuss its uses in psychotherapy. Like hypnosis and psychedelic therapy, holotropic breathwork is a method for invoking non-ordinary states of consciousness for therapeutic purposes. Viewers see patients undergoing holotropic breathwork in a group session, and the patients themselves then report their experiences.
A young man who is haunted by his murdered brother turns to a psychiatrist whose unorthodox treatment twists his world even further.
A troubled young woman with a disturbing past goes to see a counselor about her night terrors, ones involving a shadowy figure that attempts every night to break into her home.
We meet Dr. Stevens, a psychiatrist, on her first day back to work since burying her sister. Tasked with paying a visit to a radically religious family who believe their mother is possessed.
A 1980 short about the life and work of 80-year-old practicing psychiatrist Lila Bonner-Miller, who is at once a doctor, a church leader, an artist, a great-grandmother, and a remarkable example to all who know her.
A woman in her twenties has just admitted herself to a psychiatric hospital in California. A staff doctor characterizes her behavior as antisocial and impulsive.
For a series of programs made for TV Fnac, Philippe Grandrieux meets different people who tell us, each in their own point of view, a story of images. After Paul Virilio (The World is an image) and before Jean-Louis Schaeffet, Le Trou noir (AKA The Black Hole) gives us the enlightened reflections of psychanalyst Juan David Nasio about real and reality.
A psychiatrist attempts to cure a patient who thinks he's the son of Zeus, while dodging the mental ward himself.
Two strangers meet on a bridge where they have both come to commit suicide.
A prominent psychiatrist at a state run hospital wrestles with madness and a dark supernatural force as he races to stop an escaped patient from butchering five people held hostage in a remote house.
The story of who psychiatrists are today, what they do, and what they value has been told by almost everyone but them. Psychiatrists are notoriously private; cautious about revealing personal information, and noticeably absent in the media. What has been the consequence of this? If you don’t tell your story, someone else will tell it for you. Mental illness is the number one cause of disability worldwide, however many patients still fear coming to see a psychiatrist – that they will be overmedicated, not listened to, not understood, not cared for, or worse - maybe the psychiatrist will see how “crazy” they are and lock them up. The stereotype of being “crazy” is equated with being dangerous, weird, scary, and ostracized - and in some ways - so is being a psychiatrist.
Psychiatrists move in with bickering stage spouses and start bickering too.
Liz Murphy's happy life is destroyed in one night by a vicious attack. Tormented by nightmares, she attempts suicide. Her desperate parents turn to an ambitious psychiatrist, Doctor Juliet Kin, who hypnotises Liz to help her forget what happened. The treatment appears to have worked, but the attacker is enraged that Liz can't remember him and vows to make sure she never forgets him.
The alien abduction phenomenon, told by those who experienced it, with the weight of a Pulitzer Prize-winning Harvard psychiatrist at their back.