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  • 2021-06-22T04:00:00Z on PBS
  • 42m
  • 2h 48m (4 episodes)
  • United States
  • English
  • Documentary
The attempts across generations to unravel the mysteries of mental illness, including its causes and treatments.

4 episodes

Series Premiere

2021-06-22T04:00:00Z

1x01 Evil or Illness?

Series Premiere

1x01 Evil or Illness?

  • 2021-06-22T04:00:00Z42m

Ancient conceptions of mental illness and the establishment of psychiatry; modern-day stories of mental illness, including an aspiring astrophysicist with schizophrenia a d a boxer with obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD).

2021-06-22T04:00:00Z

1x02 Who's Normal?

1x02 Who's Normal?

  • 2021-06-22T04:00:00Z42m

The fight to develop mental illness standards rooted in empirical science rather than dogma; how science and societal factors mix with the ever-shifting definitions and diagnoses of mental health and illness.

The rise and fall of mental asylums in the U.S.; the largest de-facto mental health facility in the U.S., it's detainees and the realities of care both inside and outside.

Season Finale

2021-06-23T04:00:00Z

1x04 The New Frontiers

Season Finale

1x04 The New Frontiers

  • 2021-06-23T04:00:00Z42m

Cutting-edge treatments for mental illness; profiles of patients undergoing deep brain stimulation surgery, infusions of ketamine and modern electro-convulsive therapy.

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