Mental health on TV and radio
12:00 AM, Wednesday 01 January
Mental health issues are often covered in drama, documentaries and other types of TV and radio programmes. To make sure that we can all see and hear how mental health issues are being represented, we are keeping a list of recent and upcoming programmes, books, films and other types of media that feature mental health issues.
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Important note: The programme descriptions on this page have been provided by the broadcaster, publisher or through TV and radio listing services. The wording or information included in any of the following listings do not necessarily reflect the views of Shift.
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Phobia - "Claustrophobia"
04:30 AM, Tuesday 20 January
Sky Three
"Claustrophobia - Fear of Tight Spaces" - A woman who is scared of being in confined spaces tries to cure her phobia with cognitive therapy - which involves being buried alive.
Listing information from tvtv.co.uk
"Claustrophobia - Fear of Tight Spaces" - A woman who is scared of being in confined spaces tries to cure her phobia with cognitive therapy - which involves being buried alive.
Listing information from tvtv.co.uk
Phobia - "Acrophobia"
04:00 AM, Tuesday 20 January
Sky Three
Acrophobia - Fear of Heights. Housewife Wendy Black's fear of heights means she can't even go in a lift. Psychologist Dr Martin Antony attempts to cure her phobia. Will she ever be able to look down?
Listing information from uk-tv-guide.com
Acrophobia - Fear of Heights. Housewife Wendy Black's fear of heights means she can't even go in a lift. Psychologist Dr Martin Antony attempts to cure her phobia. Will she ever be able to look down?
Listing information from uk-tv-guide.com
My 22 Stone Dad and Skinny Me
10:30 PM, Monday 19 January
BBC Three
Fifteen-year-old Emma admits the cause for her recent dramatic weight loss is her father Grant's clinically obese status. This documentary follows the teenager over a period of six months as she has weekly counselling sessions as well as meetings with a family therapist to help her conquer her eating disorder.
Listing information from tvtv.co.uk
Fifteen-year-old Emma admits the cause for her recent dramatic weight loss is her father Grant's clinically obese status. This documentary follows the teenager over a period of six months as she has weekly counselling sessions as well as meetings with a family therapist to help her conquer her eating disorder.
Listing information from tvtv.co.uk
A Beautiful Mind
11:10 PM, Saturday 17 January
G.O.L.D.
Film. Academy Award-winning biopic of brilliant mathematician John Nash, whose prospects for a promising career with the CIA were confounded by paranoid delusions and schizophrenia as the stress of the job proved too much. Russell Crowe, Jennifer Connelly, Ed Harris, Judd Hirsch and Paul Bettany star.
Plot summary from tvtv.co.uk
Film. Academy Award-winning biopic of brilliant mathematician John Nash, whose prospects for a promising career with the CIA were confounded by paranoid delusions and schizophrenia as the stress of the job proved too much. Russell Crowe, Jennifer Connelly, Ed Harris, Judd Hirsch and Paul Bettany star.
Plot summary from tvtv.co.uk
Hill Street Blues - "Little Boil Blue"
02:00 PM, Thursday 15 January
More4
Coffey meets a Vietnam War veteran with post-traumatic stress disorder.
Listing information from tvtv.co.uk
Coffey meets a Vietnam War veteran with post-traumatic stress disorder.
Listing information from tvtv.co.uk
State of Mind, part 2
09:00 PM, Wednesday 14 January
BBC Radio 4
Claudia Hammond tells the story of mental health care in the UK from the1950s to the present day and explores, with the help of listeners' testimonies, how treatment and understanding of mental illness has changed over the past 50 years. 2: Altered States. The 1960s saw anti-psychiatrists including RD Laing question the notion of insanity, believing madness to be a special state. Claudia visits one of only two remaining NHS residential therapeutic communities, the Cassel Service in Richmond, Surrey, and goes to Bradford to meet the members of Sharing Voices, a community development approach to mental health services.
Listing information from radiotimes.com
Claudia Hammond tells the story of mental health care in the UK from the1950s to the present day and explores, with the help of listeners' testimonies, how treatment and understanding of mental illness has changed over the past 50 years. 2: Altered States. The 1960s saw anti-psychiatrists including RD Laing question the notion of insanity, believing madness to be a special state. Claudia visits one of only two remaining NHS residential therapeutic communities, the Cassel Service in Richmond, Surrey, and goes to Bradford to meet the members of Sharing Voices, a community development approach to mental health services.
Listing information from radiotimes.com
Surviving Gazza
10:00 PM, Sunday 11 January
More4
Documentary showing the efforts of former footballer Paul Gascoigne's family to help the troubled star through his alcoholism and mental-health difficulties. Cameras follow ex-wife Cheryl and children Mason, Bianca and Regan during the summer of 2008 when Gazza was sectioned for his own safety before going missing abroad, and his relatives then face the probability they have done as much as they can to help.
Listing information from tvtv.co.uk
Documentary showing the efforts of former footballer Paul Gascoigne's family to help the troubled star through his alcoholism and mental-health difficulties. Cameras follow ex-wife Cheryl and children Mason, Bianca and Regan during the summer of 2008 when Gazza was sectioned for his own safety before going missing abroad, and his relatives then face the probability they have done as much as they can to help.
Listing information from tvtv.co.uk
State of Mind, part 1
09:00 PM, Wednesday 07 January
BBC Radio 4
Certain mental institutions in the 50s had mile-long corridors with wards shooting off either side and patients who'd been locked away for not "fitting in" with society rather than for being unwell. Claudia Hammond speaks to former staff and inmates about what treatments were on offer and how psychoactive drugs changed things for the better.
Listing information from radiotimes.com
Certain mental institutions in the 50s had mile-long corridors with wards shooting off either side and patients who'd been locked away for not "fitting in" with society rather than for being unwell. Claudia Hammond speaks to former staff and inmates about what treatments were on offer and how psychoactive drugs changed things for the better.
Listing information from radiotimes.com
