The Disordered Mind

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Field	Value
genre	documentary
director	Robert Anderson
Henwar Rodakiewicz
presenter	Robert Anderson
narrated	H.B. Durost
Heinz Lehmann
Henry Kravitz
country	Canada
language	English
channel	CBC Television
first_aired
last_aired
num_seasons	3
num_episodes	12
producer	Robert Anderson
editor	Fergus McDonell
Don Evraire
music	Hugh Le Caine
cinematography	Doug Wilkinson
Robert Crone
Roger Moride
runtime	30 minutes
company	Robert Anderson Associates
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The Disordered Mind is a Canadian medical documentary television miniseries which aired sporadically on CBC Television in 1960, 1963 and 1966.

Premise

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

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.
• 27 April 1960: "Psychoneurotic Conditions: A Pathological Anxiety" - an office employee faces anxieties which impair a regular lifestyle.
• 4 May 1960: "Psychotic Conditions: A Depression" - a man afflicted with depression attempts a murder-suicide of his family.
• 11 May 1960: "Anti-Social Personality Disorders: A Psychopath" - a thief who lacks conscience.

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.
• 27 February 1963: "The Obsessive-Compulsive Neurosis" featured a subject with obsessive–compulsive disorder who remained unemployed for five years due to this condition.
• 6 March 1963: "Psychotic Conditions: Paranoid Schizophrenia" featured a person with paranoid schizophrenia who has resumed normal employment after overcoming that condition.
• 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.

Third series

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

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

References

References

1. Corcelli, John. (April 2002). "The Disordered Mind". Canadian Communications Foundation.
2. "A Coronary". Worldcat.
3. "Pathological Anxiety".
4. "A Depression". CECIC.
5. "Psychopath".
6. "Psychosomatic Conditions : Obesity". Worldcat.
7. (20 February 1963). "Today's TV Previews". [[Montreal Gazette]].
8. "The Obsessive Compulsive Neurosis".
9. (27 February 1963). "Today's TV Previews". [[Montreal Gazette]].
10. "The Disordered Mind: Paranoid Schizophrenia".
11. (6 March 1963). "Today's TV Previews". [[Montreal Gazette]].
12. "Compulsive Car Thief". NIH National Library of Medicine.
13. (20 March 1963). "Today's TV Previews". [[Montreal Gazette]].
14. "Aggressive Child".
15. "Girl in Danger". Science Gate.
16. "Bright Boy, Bad Scholar". Science Gate.
17. "Afraid of School". Science Gate.

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