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Free public screening with moderated discussion afterwards.
Wednesday, October 21, 2015 (6:00-8:30 PM)
Paul O'Regan Hall, Halifax Central Library, 5440 Spring Garden Rd.
Moderator: , Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, 新加坡六合彩开奖直播 & Staff Psychiatrist, East Coast Forensic Hospital
What happens to people who suffer from mental illnesses and commit violent crimes? Where do they go? How are they treated? Little is known about the facilities鈥攐nce called asylums for the criminally insane鈥攖o which some of these patients are sent. Now known as forensic psychiatric hospitals, these are institutions inside which patients disappear, away from public view for years. Four-time Emmy winner John Kastner has been granted unprecedented access to one such hospital: the Brockville Mental Health Centre. He filmed inside this facility for 18 months, allowing 46 patients and 75 staff to share their experiences with stunning frankness. The result is two remarkable documentaries. The first, NCR: Not Criminally Responsible聽(Item #58175), premiered at Hot Docs in the spring of 2013 and follows the story of a violent patient released into the community, much to the alarm of his victim and her family. Kastner鈥檚 film returns to the Brockville Mental Health Centre to follow treatment processes normally hidden from the public, profiling four patients鈥攖wo men and two women鈥攁s they struggle to gain control over their lives, so they can return to a society that often fears and demonizes them.
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John Kastner,Huffington Post, April 23, 2013
Anonymous, CBC, September 18, 2012- prompted by the death of Halifax gay rights activist Raymond Taavel
Posted originally by CBC, September 18, 2012
Stephen J. Hucker, Professor, Division of Forensic Psychiatry, University of Toronto
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