Shows masked mental patients enacting various schizophrenic symptoms as they were understood at the time. A disturbing film that raises questions about the condition and treatment of its subjects. (archive.org) “Abstract: This film describes and demonstrates four types of schizophrenia. Filmed at various New York institutions, it shows patients singly and grouped in large, outside recreational areas. Some patients are blindfolded. Symptoms shown include: social apathy, delusions, hallucinations, hebephrenic reactions, cerea flexibilitas, rigidity, motor stereotypes, posturing, and echopraxia.” (Guide to Mental Health Motion Pictures)

Uma crônica detalhada da estadia de uma mulher em uma instituição mental. Virginia Cunningham se encontra em um asilo de loucos... E não consegue se lembrar de como chegou lá. Em flashback, seu marido Robert relata seu namoro, casamento e seus sintomas em desenvolvimento. O pessoal do asilo não é demonizado, mas o medo, a ignorância e os preconceitos mantêm a Virgínia em um estado de miséria, enquanto o Dr. Mark Kik luta para encontrar a raiz de seu problema. Mas uma recaída leva Virgínia de volta para a angustiante 'Cova da Serpente' ...

Case study documenting a patient’s treatment for paranoid schizophrenia. Made for health professionals, Mental Hospital shows daily life at the state facility, including hydrotherapy and electroconvulsive therapy sessions. The film ends with the patient’s discharge.

Harriet Andersson é a frágil Karin. Afetada por crises de loucura, ela entra em conflito com seus familiares durante as férias de verão numa ilha remota. Um drama psicológico intenso em que Bergman disseca o processo de degradação de uma família.

Teenager David Clemens develops a hysterical fear that he will die if he comes into physical contact with another person. Perturbed, David's overbearing mother places him in a home for mentally disturbed young people, but David remains withdrawn from the other patients and his psychiatrist. Over time, however, David grows interested in 15-year-old Lisa, who suffers from multiple personalities – one who can only speak in rhyme, and the other, a mute.

O primeiro segredo é o que não dizemos às pessoas, o segundo segredo é o que não nos dizemos, e o terceiro segredo é a verdade.

Um proeminente psicólogo londrino parece ter tirado a própria vida, causando uma grande descrença entre seus colegas e pacientes. Sua filha adolescente se recusa a acreditar que foi suicídio, pois isso iria contra todos os princípios que seu pai defendia, portanto ela está convencida de que foi assassinato. Ela pede a ajuda de um ex-paciente para tentar chegar à verdade. A verdade, no entanto, revela-se surpreendente e perturbadora. (e 14 - Estimado 14 Anos)

Vincent Bruce, a war veteran, begins working as an occupational therapist at Poplar Lodge, a private psychiatric facility for wealthy people where he meets Lilith Arthur, a charming young woman suffering from schizophrenia, whose fragile beauty captivates all who meet her.

Deepa, a schizophrenic patient, loses her normalcy due to a mishap that occurred in her personal life. Dr. Surajit Sen takes this case as a challenge to prove that an injured mind needs more care and a better understanding than any medicine on therapy. The film portrays how the doctor gets intimate with his patient and slowly gets into the detail of her crisis and enables her to lead a normal life.

Carol Ledoux é uma manicure tímida, virgem e sexualmente reprimida. É constantemente assediada por um homem apaixonado. Quando sua irmã viaja com o namorado, fica sozinha em casa. Solitária, perturbada e gradativamente alucinada, revela um lado obscuro de seu comportamento, movida pelo sofrimento e por sua repulsa à sexualidade.

A deranged 15th Century prison colony chaplain exploits his power to get money for his church including murder and grave robbing committed by his vampire mistress and one-eyed hunchback assistant.

Enter the imaginative world of acclaimed sculptor Rolanda Polonsky, who had been a resident of Netherne Psychiatric Hospital in Coulsdon, Surrey for 26 years when this film was made. One of the positive aspects of her illness, described in the film as a schizophrenia, is that it "tapped a deep source of mystical vision and human feeling" which finds expression in her work.

A young woman, Janice, is living with her restrictive and conservative parents, who lead a dull working-class life and consider their daughter to be “misbehaving” whenever she’s trying to find her own way in life.

When the Earl of Gurney dies in a cross-dressing accident, his schizophrenic son, Jack, inherits the Gurney estate. Jack is not the average nobleman; he sings and dances across the estate and thinks he is Jesus reincarnated. Believing that Jack is mentally unfit to own the estate, the Gurney family plots to steal Jack's inheritance. As their outrageous schemes fail, the family strives to cure Jack of his bizarre behavior, with disastrous results.

Uma dona de casa esquizofrênica, engolfada por aparições aterrorizantes, mata cada uma delas, sem saber se esses demônios são meras criações de sua imaginação alucinatória ou parte da realidade. (e 16 - Estimado 16 Anos)

When his father runs off and his mother hooks up with a mustachioed new beau, eleven-year-old Mark becomes convinced that an uninvited talkative space alien, going by the name "Split," has taken up telepathic residence in his mind, and is leading him to question the norms of planet Earth. Only one teacher is willing to entertain the possibility that Mark just might be telling the truth.

A schizophrenic patient is is wasting away in a mental institution, until a young doctor encourages him to write poetry. The resulting masterpieces are however not able to stop the man from suicide.

Gay hair stylist Robin Turner does a lot of work for drag queens, all the while dreaming that he'll someday find the courage to perform in drag himself. When his schizophrenic friend, Liza, turns up looking for a place to stay, the two form an increasingly tight bond, Robin helping Liza through an unplanned pregnancy and Liza pushing Robin to develop a successful nightclub act.

A wanna-be concert pianist spends his days making a living by collecting debts for his Mafioso father, a lifestyle that could eventually ruin his dreams of a musical career.

A man suffering from paranoia and delusions is convinced that the city water source is contaminated