Schizophrenia: The Shattered Mirror Part I

Duration: 1200 ft.

Year Published: 1966

Creator: NET: INUAVC

Complete Record: Subject: presents elements from the experiences of schizophrenic persons to promote understanding of the condition, and reviews the research being done toward developing a better knowledge of its causes, implications, and treatment. Describes the different avenues of research in treatment (such as through drugs, shock treatment, and psychotherapy), the biochemical and neurophysiological aspects of schizophrenia, and deals briefly with the question as to whether the distorted perceptions in schizophrenia are the result or cause of it. Includes a case history of a young girl in everyday life and her feelings. Shots: Man puts his hand to the camera and turns away from it, man sculpting, women in a ballet class, train station, woman walking alone in the park, Schizophrenic patient in the doctor’s office taking a psychology test, woman with a tray of pills giving them away to a bunch of patients, man sitting in garden with DOG by his chair, monkey strapped down, operations are being done on his brain, woman crying in front of the camera with handkerchief in her hand, woman walking in the streets of New York, woman fixing her hair in the mirror, in a Ballet class, typing on a typewriter, bald black man standing up on a tree smoking a cigarette, ‘I am I, who are you’ schizophrenia session with lots of patients saying the above and snapping fingers.