Faceless. Inside a Psychiatric Ward
Description
Since Maria was found dancing on a line of train tracks, it's a good bet that confinement in a mental ward saved her life. Still, she says, she prefers freedom to the "freedumb" of the medicated world she now resides in. Many of her fellow patients are equally ambivalent about being institutionalized. One admits that his fear of being irradiated by electrical outlets may be due to the faulty wiring in his own mind. Another actually longs for more electrical shock treatments since they bring a sensation of "complete peace." And then there's the man who's discharged even though he's still hearing voices - they're not telling him to kill himself today, so what's the harm of reentering society? Following Maria through this claustrophobic landscape of uncertainty and anguish, viewers are allowed to explore the darkest catacombs of the psyche as well as the ever-present human tendency to search for a way out.
Runtime
52 min
Subjects
- Affective disorders (67)
- Mental health (216)
- Psychoses (30)
- Public health (338)
- Self-care, Health (487)
- Mood Disorders (14)
- Health (2879)
- Suicide (147)
- Psychiatric hospitals (12)
- Schizophrenia (60)
- Psychology, Pathological (155)
- Medicine (401)
Genre
Date of Publication
[2013], c2012
Database
Films on Demand
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