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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