Back from madness
Subtitle: the struggle for sanity
By: Home Box Office ; produced and directed by Kenneth Paul Rosenberg
Contributors: Preven, David W.; Home Box Office (Firm); Films for the Humanities & Sciences (Firm)
Series: NSG 325 (NU course); PED 670 (NU course); PSY 427 (NU course); PSY 623b (NU course)
Publisher: Films for the Humanities
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Princeton, NJ
Language: eng
Format: [videorecording] :
Number of pages: 53
Subjects: Mental illness; Treatment; Schizophrenia; Case studies; Manic-depressive illness; Mental Depression; Obsessive-compulsive disorder
Other titles: Struggle for sanity; America undercover (Television program)
Description: Follows four psychiatric patients for one to two years, from the time they arrive at Harvard's Massachusetts General Hospital, and contextualizes their present-day treatments with rare archival footage demonstrating how their conditions were treated in the past.  On one level, the program examines what psychiatric treatment is like today at one of the world's most famous hospitals.  Beyond this, the program is about the patients themselves, and the inner strength that is required of them as they search for some relief from the severe mental illnesses they are coping with--schizophrenia, manic-depression, obsessive-compulsive disorder, and suicidal depression.
Notes: Originally broadcast in 1996 as a segment of the television series: America undercover.

"HBO original programming."

"DVD Video"--Container.

Cinematography, Bob Richman, Buddy Squires ; editor, Bob Eisenhardt ; original music, Michael Bacon ; medical consultant, David W. Preven.

Narrator: Kenneth Paul Rosenberg.

DVD-R.