Beyond the layman's madness.

Date:
1976
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Description

Based on the 14th Sir Geoffrey Vickers Lecture for the Mental Health Foundation, Professor Michael Shepherd talks about and attempts to define mental disorders currently affecting the population. He bases his lecture around three questions: what types of mental disorder do we encounter? How much illness is subsumed by these categories and where and how are the patients suffering from such disorders to be identified? He calls on much evidence from different studies attempting classification processes and points out the huge variance between them. Throughout, Shepherd questions whether or not it is possible for there to be a universally agreed categorisation system for mental health.

Publication/Creation

London : University of London Audio-Visual Centre, 1976.

Physical description

1 videocassette (Umatic) (39.09 min.) : sound, black and white, PAL.
1 videocassette (1-inch) (39.09 min.) : sound, black and white, PAL.
1 videocassette (Digibeta) (39.09 min.) : sound, black and white, PAL.
1 DVD (39.09 min.) : sound, black and white.

Notes

This video is one of around 310 titles, originally broadcast on Channel 7 of the ILEA closed-circuit television network, given to Wellcome Trust from the University of London Audio-Visual Centre shortly after it closed in the late 1980s. Although some of these programmes might now seem rather out-dated, they probably represent the largest and most diversified body of medical video produced in any British university at this time, and give a comprehensive and fascinating view of the state of medical and surgical research and practice in the 1970s and 1980s, thus constituting a contemporary medical-historical archive of great interest. The lectures mostly take place in a small and intimate studio setting and are often face-to-face. The lecturers use a wide variety of resources to illustrate their points, including film clips, slides, graphs, animated diagrams, charts and tables as well as 3-dimensional models and display boards with movable pieces. Some of the lecturers are telegenic while some are clearly less comfortable about being recorded; all are experts in their field and show great enthusiasm to share both the latest research and the historical context of their specialist areas.

Creator/production credits

Presented by Professor Michael Shepherd, Institute of Psychiatry, University of London. Produced by Martin Hayden. Made for British Postgraduate Medical Federation. Made by University of London Audio-Visual Centre.

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University of London

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