NFB Collection
Breakdown
195142 minFilm: Documentary, Fiction
Direction: Robert Anderson
Production: Robert AndersonTom Daly
Script: Robert Anderson
Produced by the National Film Board of Canada for the Mental Health Authorities of the Provinces of Canada in co-operation with the Canadian Department of National Health and Welfare, Mental Health Division.
The story of a young woman's schizophrenic breakdown, and of her recovery in a modern mental hospital. Inherent in the film is an appeal for greater public understanding of mental illness and for the removal of the stigma that still surrounds it. The film presents the case of a seemingly well-adjusted young woman, showing the disintegration of her personality and the psychiatric treatment that follows.
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Subject categories
- Psychology and Psychiatry > Counselling and TherapyInstitutional CareMental Illness and DisabilitiesWomen
- Women > Health and Illness
Credits
- director
- Robert Anderson
- producer
- Robert Anderson
- script
- Robert Anderson
- executive producer
- Tom Daly
- photography
- Osmond H. Borradaile
- sound
- Clarke Daprato
- editing
- Victor Jobin
- sound editing
- Kenneth Heeley-Ray
- narrator
- James Sage
- Robert Anderson
- music
- Maurice Blackburn
Awards
- Outstanding 16mm Film of 1951Scholastic Teachers Magazine Annual Film Awards
- Certificate of Honour - Category: Film Production in GeneralInternational Review of Specialized Cinematography