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Mental Health Awareness

A selection of films about the mind, psychology and mental health. (13 films)

Beyond the Blues: Child and Youth Depression

Beyond the Blues: Child and Youth Depression

Through the personal stories of three young people, this compelling documentary explores the issues and challenges of childhood and youth depression.

Branding Illness

Branding Illness

A documentary expose of how pharmaceutical companies create demand for the drugs at their disposal, and buy the science they need to prove their effectiveness.

A Change of Character

A Change of Character

This captivating video features neuroscientist Dr. Elkhonon Goldberg, author of The Executive Brain, as well as neurologist and best-selling author Dr. Oliver Sacks (Awakenings), in a discussion of frontal lobe damage.

Fighting Their Fears: Child and Youth Anxiety

Fighting Their Fears: Child and Youth Anxiety

Through interviews with experts and three young people, this compelling documentary outlines the causes, symptoms and treatments for anxiety disorders.

The Hidden Face of Fear

The Hidden Face of Fear

Neuroscientists and psychologists are approaching a common understanding of how the brain's fear circuitry works, and changes.

How Happy Can You Be?

How Happy Can You Be?

What is happiness? And how do we get more of it? Visiting leading figures in positive psychology and observing clinical experiments, this is a light-hearted but serious investigation.

In Search of Memory

In Search of Memory

The life and work of one of the most important neuroscientists of the 20th century, Nobel Prize winner Eric Kandel.

OCD: The War Inside

OCD: The War Inside

The personal stories of people fighting to survive a war in their minds: dealing with Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder.

The Substance

The Substance

Chock-full of rare footage and LSD-celebrity interviews, an informative and enteraining historical and scientific 'trip.'

Toward Daylight

Toward Daylight

Tells the stories of five people struggling to cope with the suicide of a loved one or their own suicide attempt.