General Information

Author/Creator

DeLeo, Maryann, director.

Language

English.

Published

USA, 2001.

Physical Description

DVD (76 minutes)

Digital ver. identifier

HU_OSA_00005828

Contents/Summary

Summary

The documentary offers full access to New York City's Bellevue Hospital, the country's most renowned psychiatric emergency center that treats as many as 7000 individuals annually. This documentary feature takes viewers for an exclusive tour inside the locked psychiatric wards of America's largest public hospital, where they will have the opportunity to observe the sometimes tragic, sometimes comic, and always grueling struggle faced by the doctors and patients wrestling with mental illness. A schizophrenic woman goes berserk and is strapped to a gurney. An actor is medicated after threatening to jump out a window. A paranoid woman insists that the CIA is trying to "zap" her. A homeless man eats the pages of his Bible. These are some of the cases confronting the doctors and staff at the psychiatric unit of Bellevue hospital--the oldest and most famous hospital in America. This documentary takes a never-before-seen look inside the psychiatric emergency room and treatment areas of this New York hospital. In addition to capturing the high drama and frequent chaos that ensues when mentally ill men and women are brought in, the documentary offers some sobering insights into some of the treatments that Bellevue provides its patients.

Subjects

Genre

Documentary films

Bibliographic Information

Holdings

Item Type	Current Location	Call Number	Status	Shelving Location	Public Note
DVD-ROM	OSA Film Library	FL Record 4079	Available	-	-
Digital film	OSA Film Library	FL Record 4079 (HU_OSA_00005828.mp4)	Available		Access Copy, MP4 format