Stigma

195819 min 45 secFilm: Fiction

Direction: Stanley Jackson

Production: Tom Daly

Script: Stanley Jackson

Produced by the National Film Board of Canada for the Canadian Department of National Health and Welfare.

This film tells the story of a young woman who suffers a mental breakdown, recovers fully in a mental hospital and returns home. Instead of the understanding and support she most needs from her friends and associates, she is virtually ostracized. The film makes a plea for a change in the sort of public thinking that places a stigma upon people who have suffered from an illness of the mind rather than of the body.

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Subject categories


  • Women > Health and Illness
  • Psychology and Psychiatry > Individual in SocietyInterpersonal RelationshipsMental Illness and Disabilities
  • Families > Mental Health
  • Health/Personal Development > Bullying & DiscriminationMental Health/Stress/Suicide

Credits


director
Stanley Jackson
script
Stanley Jackson
executive producer
Tom Daly
camera
Robert Humble
editing
William Greaves
sound editing
Malca Gillson
cast
Monique Chabot
Martha Choquette
Mickey Martin
Benoît Girard
Stanley Mellough
Marie-Louisa Holtz