Drug Dependency, Barbiturates: Excerpts from Two Interviews…

DATE: 1969

LENGTH: 59 min

CATEGORY: Clinical & Surgical, Educational & Instructional

CREATOR: University of Mississippi Medical Center

DIRECTOR: None specified

PRODUCER/PUBLISHER: University of Mississippi Medical Center

Summary

These “telexamples” are recorded excerpts of sessions between psychiatric providers and their various patients undergoing treatment at the University of Mississippi Department of Psychiatry. The segments depict symptoms and treatment of a range of psychiatric conditions. Before the first full segment on adjustment reaction of adolescence (signaled by a title slide), an untitled session that appears to deal with barbiturate dependency is shown. The essay discusses this two-part session in some detail. Other segments address clinical conditions described as hysterical neurosis, conversion type; psychotic depressive reaction; schizophrenic reaction, acute undifferentiated type; homosexuality, and acute undifferentiated schizophrenia…. Read The Essay

Supplementary Materials

Stills from Drug Dependency, Barbiturates…

Black and white movie still showing a close up of a man wearing a suit and tie.

Black and white movie still showing a woman with a hand to her forehead, her eyes tightly shut, and a pained expression on her face.

Black and white movie still showing a man, dressed in a suit and tie, speaking to a woman, who is seated adjacent to him.

Black and white film title card that reads: Differential Diagnosis: Psychotic Depressive Reaction.

Black and white movie still showing a young man in a button down shirt, seated and looking down at his lap.

Black and white movie still of a seated woman wearing glasses, both her hands held expressively up at the same level as her shoulders.

Black and white movie still showing a woman wearing a plaid blouse, sitting on a couch.

Black and white title card that reads: Department of Psychiatry.

Black and white title card that reads: Interview One Week Later.

Black and white movie still showing a close up of woman wearing a button down blouse.

Black and white movie still showing two men sitting in chairs, facing each other.

Black and white movie still showing a young man wearing a button down shirt and slacks, sitting in a chair, with his legs crossed and arms upturned, expressively.

Black and white title card that reads: Excerpts from Two Interviews of 20 Minutes

Black and white movie still showing a man wearing glasses, suit, and tie, seated at a desk, with his hands folded in front of him.

Black and white movie still showing a woman wearing a dress, sitting in front of a desk, holding one arm up, expressively.

Black and white film title card that reads: 69 - 9 Adjustment Reaction of Adolescence.

Black and white film still showing a man dressed in a suit, sitting in an armchair, facing a woman wearing a blouse and skirt, who is seated in an adjacent couch with her hands in her lap.

Other Films Featured in the Essay “Psychiatric Interview Videotapes in the Age of Reform: Notes on the Depressive Neurosis Series Recorded by the University of Mississippi Medical Center in 1969″

Depressive Neurosis

In the Collections of the National Library of Medicine

NLM Historical Audiovisuals Collection

Explore our Guide to Mental Health Motion Pictures, which is designed to aid patrons in identifying titles relevant to their interests and research. The guide contains references to nearly 200 films and video recordings produced from the 1930s up to and including 1970. Most deal with mental or psychiatric disorders as defined or recognized at the time the films were produced, as well as their corresponding causes and treatments.

Watch these additional titles related to mental health care:

Community Mental Health, 1960—This film demonstrates how one community, through the cooperation of both lay and professional citizens, surveyed mental health needs and established a health center to treat mental disease and emotional disorders.
The Mental Status Examination, 1962—This program and its accompanying booklet present a basic outline for the collection and organization of examination data based on current psychiatric concepts.
Chain of Care, 1962—This film surveys the coordinated program of mental health care in New York State, using four case histories to portray the major public psychiatric services that make up the state-sponsored approach.
Involuntary Hospitalization of the Psychiatric Patient: Should it be Abolished?, 1969—This film presents a panel discussion between Jules H. Masserman, M.D., Professor of Neurology and Psychiatry, Northwestern University Medical School, and Thomas S. Szasz, M.D., Professor of Psychiatry, State University of New York. Harold Visotsky, M.D., Chairman, Department of Psychiatry at Northwestern University Medical School, acts as moderator.

NLM Archives and Modern Manuscripts Collections

Adolf Nichtenhauser Medical Film Materials contains correspondence, memoranda, reviews, catalogs, and a variety of printed matter pertaining to technical, historical, educational, and miscellaneous aspects of the medical motion picture. Nichtenhauser’s major accomplishment is the unpublished “History of Motion Pictures in Medicine.”

NLM Rare Books & Early Manuscripts Collection

Medical Inquiries and Observations into the Diseases of the Mind, 1812 by Benjamin Rush, also available in NLM Digital Collections.
Die Traumdeutung, 1900, by Sigmund Freud. See also English translation: The Interpretation of Dreams.
The Popular Feeling Towards Hospitals for the Insane, ca. 1852 By Isaac Ray and Dorothea Dix, also available in NLM Digital Collections.

NLM Prints & Photographs Collection

Front view of a man who is sitting on the floor; he is wearing a gown which is pulled up over his mouth, and he is hugging his knees which are drawn up to his chest. — Aliéné en démence, 1838
*National Library of Medicine #101436541*

A patient is sitting in a chair; his body is immobilized by straps at the shoulders, arms, waist, and feet; a box-like apparatus is used to confine the head. There is a bucket attached beneath the seat. — The tranquilizing chair of Benjamin Rush, 1811
*National Library of Medicine #101436673*

A nurse is standing at the back of a tiled room, monitoring two bath tubs. — Nurse monitoring patients in baths, 1950?
*National Library of Medicine #101447508*

Images from silent film showing a total of fifteen still frames, 10 depicting institutionalized patients, and 5 with text only, defining schizophrenia and some of the symptoms associated with the disorder. — Fifteen frames from Symptoms in schizophrenia, 2010
*National Library of Medicine #101595899*

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External Resources

Articles and Websites

The Asylum Hill Project is a grant-funded effort supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities and run by scholars from Millsaps College, the University of Mississippi Medical Center (UMMC), and other participants. It focuses on research into what was once known as the Mississippi State Lunatic Asylum, located on property currently owned by UMMC, and on the possible exhumation, study, and respectful memorialization of those buried on that property. Project staff are working to identify remains where possible, make contact with descendants, and create an historical monograph, a multi-disciplinary anthology of essays, a website, and a database of asylum-related oral histories and archival materials.

National Institute of Mental Health at NIH

The National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), the lead federal agency for research on mental disorders, offers basic information on mental disorders, a range of related topics, and the latest mental health research.