Historical Footage of Mental Hospital Conditions
and Treatments for Patients
The treatment of the mentally ill has changed radically through
the ages.
This collection of two films will show you how Schizophrenia and
other sever mental conditions were treated in the middle of the
20th century.
The collection has a total run time of 33 minutes.
The first film is titled Symptoms of Schizophrenia - 1940 - This
film ppresents the symptoms of schizophrenia as exhibited by masked
patients at a mental hospital. It was created as a training tool
to assist students in understanding the symptoms that patients exhibit
for this mental condition. This film is silent.
The second film is titled Mental Hospital - 1953 - Follows the
case of a mental patient who istreated for schizophrenia at the
Oklahoma State Hospital. It details all the treatments the patient
received while in their care and explains the value of occupational
therapy in their treatment.
Here are some sample clips from the DVD
 
 
 
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