TED Talks
TED: A tale of mental illness -- from the inside | elyn Saks
Is it okay if I totally trash your office? It's a question elyn Saks once asked her doctor, and it wasn't a joke. A legal scholar, in 2007 Saks came forward with her own story of schizophrenia, controlled by drugs and therapy but...
Curated Video
The Lobotomist
Ice-pick lobotomy was once believed to be a successful treatment for mental illness. Why did people suppose it worked, and what has it taught us about brain function? Biology - Being Human - Learning Points. Dr Walter Freeman introduced...
Curated Video
Miss Major Griffin-Gracy: Activist for Transgender Rights
Present at the Stonewall Uprising of 1959, pioneering transgender activist Miss Major Griffin-Gracy lived through the HIV/AIDS epidemic to fight for LGBTQ+ rights in the United States and beyond.
Neuro Transmissions
Bring back asylums...but better
If you hear the word “asylum”, it most likely conjures creepy, horror vibes. Mental hospitals have long been the source of mystery and curiosity, but what if I told you that we need to bring them back. Just...better. Thanks to...
Vlogbrothers
The Only Psychiatric Hospital in Sierra Leone
In which John visits the Kissy Psychiatric Hospital in Freetown, Sierra Leone, the only dedicated mental health facility in the nation, and learns about the extraordinary changes that have taken place there in the last two years with...
Psychology Unlocked
On Being Sane in Insane Places - David Rosenhan's Hospital Experiment
David Rosenhan's landmark experiment tests the boundaries of mental illness, and the diagnosis of psychiatric conditions. A decade after One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest was published, Rosenhan brought distopian fiction to life.
Religion for Breakfast
Jerusalem Syndrome: Real or Not?
Lots of people have heard of Jerusalem Syndrome...the phenomenon of tourists suddenly having religiously-themed psychotic episodes upon visiting Jerusalem. But is this a real mental condition?
Getty Images
butterfly crazy chained in a room of an asylum
butterfly crazy chained in a room of an asylum
AFP News Agency
CLEAN : Putin-mask protester seeks asylum in Ukraine
A Russian man who was repeatedly arrested for donning masks of President Vladimir Putin in anti-Kremlin pickets has crossed into Ukraine and is seeking political asylum
Sky News
Broadmoor Hospital Exteriors
CLEAN: Exterior shots of Broadmoor hospital building on November 03, 1994 in Berkshire, England.
AFP News Agency
CLEAN : 'If I take some pills I'm calm by the morning': Kyiv psych hospital puts brave face on war
Sometimes, when war makes the walls of her Kyiv psychiatric hospital shudder, head nurse Oksana Padalka hides so she can cry (Footage by AFPTV via Getty Images)
AFP News Agency
VOICED: In Cuba, mentally ill patients take the stage as therapy
VOICED: In Cuba, mentally ill patients take the stage as therapy
AFP News Agency
CLEAN : Calais grants 111 Eritreans refugee status
CLEAN : Calais grants 111 Eritreans refugee status
AFP News Agency
CLEAN :Film stars in Afghanistan asylum seekers in France
CLEAN :Film stars in Afghanistan asylum seekers in France
AFP News Agency
VOICED : Film stars in Afghanistan asylum seekers in France
The feted star of an internationally acclaimed film Afghan actress Marina Golbahari and her husband have been chased from their home to the brink of suicide in a filthy French asylum shelter after she was photographed without a veil
AFP News Agency
CLEAN : Putin mask protester seeks asylum in Ukraine
CLEAN : Putin mask protester seeks asylum in Ukraine