Psychiatry : an industry of death.

This long documentary looks at the negative side of the psychiatric industry. Chapters are arranged chronologically and include: The origins of psychiatry (early psychiatric hospitals, including Bedlam); Re-defining man (on early psychiatric theories such as behavioural psychology and the work of Pavlov); Eugenics (German and Nazi psychiatry); Creating Racism (how other ethnic groups were considered to be psychologically inferior); Soviet Psychiatry; Brain Damage (on ECT and psychosurgery); Drugging for Profit (on the psychiatric drugs trade); Psychiatric Coercion and Restraint (on involuntary treatments); Inventing Mental Disorders (on the diagnosis of mental problems); Kids in Psychiatry's Crossroads (on the role of psychiatry for children); Hidden Influence (on psychiatry and politics); and a section on CCHR's work to expose bad psychiatric practice. The programme moves very quickly through these large themes and includes sound bite commentary from an enormous number of experts in each field as well as a rather over-bearing movie-trailer narrator. It contains footage from archival and current films showing psychiatrists and patients and includes accounts from people who have fallen foul of the psychiatric industry.