Ghost in the machine.

Date:
1981
  • Film

About this work

Description

Starting with considering humankind's existential relationship with life and death (using Egyptian, Medieval and Renaissance imagery), this film explores some of the known, at the time of the film, possible mind-body links in mental health. The film focusses on two principle affective disorders - anxiety and depression primarily illustrating this through abstract and medical animation. The film makes some assertions about the incidence of respiratory and digestive disorders in people who are neurotic; it errs on the side that mental illness is organic, physiological in nature.

Publication/Creation

England, 1981.

Physical description

1 film reel (20 min.) : sound, colour ; 16 mm

Creator/production credits

Contributors adnd advisors; Dr Stuart Checkley, Consultant Psychiatrist, The Maudsley Hospital, London; Dr Brain Leonard, Professor of Pharmacology, University College, Galway; Dr Stuart Montgomery, Consultant Psychiatrist, St Mary's Hospital, London. Professor Eugene S. Paykel, St George's Hospital Medical School, London; Professor Dr W. Poldinger, Kantonale Psychiatrische Klinik, Wil, Swtizerland; Dr Robert Wilkins, Chair, The Association of Psychiatrist in Training UK. A Medi-cine Production for Hoescht.

Copyright note

Hoechst UK Ltd

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    BMA843
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