Art therapy and psychiatry.

UK : University of London, 1988.

1 videocassette (Umatic) (45 min.) : sound, color
1 videocassette (Umatic low band) (45 min.) : sound, color, NTSC
1 videocassette (VHS) (45 min.) : sound, color

University of London

This video is one of around 310 titles, originally broadcast on Channel 7 of the ILEA closed-circuit television network, given to Wellcome Trust from the University of London Audio-Visual Centre shortly after it closed in the late 1980s. Although some of these programmes might now seem rather out-dated, they probably represent the largest and most diversified body of medical video produced in any British university at this time, and give a comprehensive and fascinating view of the state of medical and surgical research and practice in the 1970s and 1980s, thus constituting a contemporary medical-historical archive of great interest.

Introduced by Trevor A Scott. With Dr Nathanial Minton, Diane Waller, Joanna Weller, Professor Christopher Cornford. A few patients discuss the benefits of art therapy whilst displaying their pictures including an elderly Anglican priest diagnosed with an epileptic 'personality' (credit is given to the patients and staff of the Abraham Cowley Unit at St Peter's Hospital, Chertsey). The experts speak to the camera from behind their consulting desks; the video is partly contextual (relating to the history of the discipline) and partly relates to career advice. Between sequences, there is jarring piano music (Piano Sonata in B by Jonathan Thorne). Finally, there is a group discussion