The Disordered Mind

The Disordered Mind is a Canadian medical documentary television miniseries which aired sporadically on CBC Television in 1960, 1963 and 1966.

The Disordered Mind
Genredocumentary
Directed byRobert Anderson
Henwar Rodakiewicz
Presented byRobert Anderson
Narrated byH.B. Durost
Heinz Lehmann
Henry Kravitz
Music byHugh Le Caine
Country of originCanada
Original languageEnglish
No. of seasons3
No. of episodes12
Production
ProducerRobert Anderson
CinematographyDoug Wilkinson
Robert Crone
Roger Moride
EditorsFergus McDonell
Don Evraire
Running time30 minutes
Production companyRobert Anderson Associates
Release
Original networkCBC Television
Original release20 April 1960 (1960-04-20) –
2 October 1966 (1966-10-02)

Premise

The series concerned actual cases of mental illness, featuring the patients and practitioners involved in each case.[1]

Scheduling

First series

Wednesdays 10:30 p.m. (Eastern), part of Explorations

  • 20 April 1960: "Psychosomatic Disorders: A Coronary" - an insurance agent suffers a stress-related heart attack.[2]
  • 27 April 1960: "Psychoneurotic Conditions: A Pathological Anxiety" - an office employee faces anxieties which impair a regular lifestyle.[3]
  • 4 May 1960: "Psychotic Conditions: A Depression" - a man afflicted with depression attempts a murder-suicide of his family.[4]
  • 11 May 1960: "Anti-Social Personality Disorders: A Psychopath" - a thief who lacks conscience.[5]

Second series

Wednesdays 10:30 p.m. (Eastern), part of Explorations

  • 20 February 1963: "Psychosomatic Conditions: Obesity" (1963) - the treatment of a young girl's obesity.[6][7]
  • 27 February 1963: "The Obsessive-Compulsive Neurosis" featured a subject with obsessive–compulsive disorder who remained unemployed for five years due to this condition.[8][9]
  • 6 March 1963: "Psychotic Conditions: Paranoid Schizophrenia" featured a person with paranoid schizophrenia who has resumed normal employment after overcoming that condition.[10][11]
  • 20 March 1963: "The Compulsive Car Thief" featured a young adult who is serving a prison sentence for car thefts, a practice which began at age ten.[12][13]

Third series

Sundays 10:30 p.m. (Eastern), stand-alone series

  • 11 September 1966: "Aggressive Child" - features a combative six-year-old boy.[14]
  • 18 September 1966: "Girl in Danger" - concerns a 13-year-old girl who is emotionally less than half her age and deemed "pre-delinquent".[15]
  • 25 September 1966: "Bright Boy, Bad Scholar" - features learning disorders and their early therapy.[16]
  • 2 October 1966: "Afraid of School" - concerns a six-year-old boy who avoids school due to an incident during infancy.[17]

References
  1. Corcelli, John (April 2002). "The Disordered Mind". Canadian Communications Foundation. Retrieved 7 May 2010.
  2. "A Coronary". worldcat.org. Worldcat. Retrieved 14 February 2023.
  3. "Pathological Anxiety". archive.org. Retrieved 14 February 2023.
  4. "A Depression". screenculture.org. CECIC. Retrieved 14 February 2023.
  5. "Psychopath". archive.org. Retrieved 14 February 2023.
  6. "Psychosomatic Conditions : Obesity". Worldcat.org. Worldcat. Retrieved 14 February 2023.
  7. "Today's TV Previews". Montreal Gazette. Montreal. 20 February 1963. p. 6. Retrieved 17 April 2012.
  8. "The Obsessive Compulsive Neurosis". archive.org. Retrieved 14 February 2023.
  9. "Today's TV Previews". Montreal Gazette. Montreal. 27 February 1963. p. 11. Retrieved 17 April 2012.
  10. "The Disordered Mind: Paranoid Schizophrenia". archive.org. Retrieved 14 February 2023.
  11. "Today's TV Previews". Montreal Gazette. Montreal. 6 March 1963. p. 17. Retrieved 17 April 2012.
  12. "Compulsive Car Thief". catalog.nlm.nih.gov. NIH National Library of Medicine. Retrieved 14 February 2023.
  13. "Today's TV Previews". Montreal Gazette. Montreal. 20 March 1963. p. 11. Retrieved 17 April 2012.
  14. "Aggressive Child". archive.org. Retrieved 14 February 2023.
  15. "Girl in Danger". sciencegate.app. Science Gate. doi:10.1176/ps.17.6.185. Retrieved 14 February 2023.
  16. "Bright Boy, Bad Scholar". sciencegate.app. Science Gate. doi:10.1176/ps.17.8.252-a. Retrieved 14 February 2023.
  17. "Afraid of School". sciencegate.app. Science Gate. doi:10.1176/ps.17.7.218. Retrieved 14 February 2023.
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