The Disordered Mind Explained

Genre:	documentary
Director:	Robert Anderson Henwar Rodakiewicz
Presenter:	Robert Anderson
Narrated:	H.B. Durost Heinz Lehmann Henry Kravitz
Country:	Canada
Language:	English
Channel:	CBC Television
Num Seasons:	3
Num Episodes:	12
Producer:	Robert Anderson
Editor:	Fergus McDonell Don Evraire
Music:	Hugh Le Caine
Cinematography:	Doug Wilkinson Robert Crone Roger Moride
Runtime:	30 minutes
Company:	Robert Anderson Associates

The Disordered Mind is a Canadian medical documentary television miniseries which aired sporadically on CBC Television in 1960, 1963 and 1966.

Premise

The series concerned actual cases of mental illness, featuring the patients and practitioners involved in each case.^[1]

Wednesdays 10:30 p.m. (Eastern), part of Explorations

20 April 1960: "Psychosomatic Disorders: A Coronary" - an insurance agent suffers a stress-related heart attack.^[2]
27 April 1960: "Psychoneurotic Conditions: A Pathological Anxiety" - an office employee faces anxieties which impair a regular lifestyle.^[3]
4 May 1960: "Psychotic Conditions: A Depression" - a man afflicted with depression attempts a murder-suicide of his family.^[4]
11 May 1960: "Anti-Social Personality Disorders: A Psychopath" - a thief who lacks conscience.^[5]

Wednesdays 10:30 p.m. (Eastern), part of Explorations

20 February 1963: "Psychosomatic Conditions: Obesity" (1963) - the treatment of a young girl's obesity.^[6] ^[7]
27 February 1963: "The Obsessive-Compulsive Neurosis" featured a subject with obsessive–compulsive disorder who remained unemployed for five years due to this condition.^[8] ^[9]
6 March 1963: "Psychotic Conditions: Paranoid Schizophrenia" featured a person with paranoid schizophrenia who has resumed normal employment after overcoming that condition.^[10] ^[11]
20 March 1963: "The Compulsive Car Thief" featured a young adult who is serving a prison sentence for car thefts, a practice which began at age ten.^[12] ^[13]

Sundays 10:30 p.m. (Eastern), stand-alone series

11 September 1966: "Aggressive Child" - features a combative six-year-old boy.^[14]
18 September 1966: "Girl in Danger" - concerns a 13-year-old girl who is emotionally less than half her age and deemed "pre-delinquent".^[15]
25 September 1966: "Bright Boy, Bad Scholar" - features learning disorders and their early therapy.^[16]
2 October 1966: "Afraid of School" - concerns a six-year-old boy who avoids school due to an incident during infancy.^[17]

Web site: The Disordered Mind . Blaine . Allan . . 1996 . 7 May 2010 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20150114075939/http://www.film.queensu.ca/CBC/Dan.html . 14 January 2015 .

Web site: The Disordered Mind . John . Corcelli . April 2002 . Canadian Communications Foundation . 7 May 2010 .
Web site: A Coronary . worldcat.org . Worldcat . 14 February 2023.
Web site: Pathological Anxiety . archive.org . 14 February 2023.
Web site: A Depression . screenculture.org . CECIC . 14 February 2023.
Web site: Psychopath . archive.org . 14 February 2023.
Web site: Psychosomatic Conditions : Obesity . Worldcat.org . Worldcat . 14 February 2023.
News: Today's TV Previews . . Montreal . 20 February 1963 . 6 . 17 April 2012.
Web site: The Obsessive Compulsive Neurosis . archive.org . 14 February 2023.
News: Today's TV Previews . . Montreal . 27 February 1963 . 11 . 17 April 2012.
Web site: The Disordered Mind: Paranoid Schizophrenia . archive.org . 14 February 2023.
News: Today's TV Previews . . Montreal . 6 March 1963 . 17 . 17 April 2012.
Web site: Compulsive Car Thief . catalog.nlm.nih.gov . NIH National Library of Medicine . 14 February 2023.
News: Today's TV Previews . . Montreal . 20 March 1963 . 11 . 17 April 2012.
Web site: Aggressive Child . archive.org . 14 February 2023.
Girl in Danger . sciencegate.app . Science Gate . 10.1176/ps.17.6.185 . 14 February 2023.
Bright Boy, Bad Scholar . sciencegate.app . Science Gate . 10.1176/ps.17.8.252-a . 14 February 2023.
Afraid of School . sciencegate.app . Science Gate . 10.1176/ps.17.7.218 . 14 February 2023.