THE FIFTH ESTATE. Convicted sex offenders at an Ontario psychiatric facility were sent to be therapists for women with mental illness at another forensic institution… Read More »Psychiatric treatment or torture? The Oak Ridge experiment
This video covers the history of eugenics, or “racial hygiene,” in Germany and the United States throughout the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The… Read More »A History of Eugenics
DR MARK KOMRAD Per Lanterna: A psychiatry ethicist’s viewpoint on the rising trend of psychiatric euthanasia based on government edict and historical comparisons. This informative… Read More »The Role of Psychiatrists in the U.S. Eugenics & Sterilization Movements and the Nazi Holocaust
Back in the day, those labelled ‘undesirables’ were put into mental asylums and kept in isolation. Today, those houses of horror have been refurbed for… Read More »History of New Zealand’s asylums and a look at where are they now
BBC. William Sargant was a mental health professional from the United Kingdom, and was of questionable moral standing, in more ways than one. Here, one… Read More »William Sargant, Medical Science, and British Intelligence
BBC. Documentary which tells the fascinating and poignant story of the closure of Britain’s mental asylums. In the post-war period, 150,000 people were hidden away… Read More »A History of the Madhouse
A very informative and heartfelt video on the Aktion T4 euthanasia program run by psychiatrists prior to and during World War II in Germany.