- Title: PA-10
- Summary: SYMPTOMS IN SCHIZOPHRENIA: FILM MADE AS A LEARNING TOOL FOR PROFESSIONALS IN PSYCHIATRY. DEMONSTRATES SCHIZOPHRENIA SYMPTOMS SUCH AS SOCIAL APATHY, DELUSIONS, HALLUCINATIONS, HEBEPHRENIC REACTIONS, CEREA FLEXIBILITAS, RIGIDITY, MOTOR STEREOTYPES, POSTURING AND ECHOPRAXIA FOUND IN PSYCHOPATHIC HOSPITALS. MASKED AND BLINDFOLDED MENTAL PATIENTS
- Description:01:20:30 - "APATHY AND ABSENCE OF SOCIAL INTEREST CHARACTERIZE ALL TYPES , ESPECIALLY THE SIMPLE GROUP WHO EXHIBIT FEW ADDITIONAL SYMPTOMS". MS PAN GROUP OF MALE MENTAL PATIENTS SEATED ON PARK BENCHES, WALKING ABOUT, IN OUTDOOR PARK AREA OF INSTITUTION. 01:20:50 - "DELUSIONS AND HALLUCINATIONS OCCUR IN MOST HEBEPHRENIC, CATATONIC AND PARANOID PATIENTS, THE LATTER OFTEN GIVES EVIDENCE OF THESE SYMPTOMS BY CONVERSING OR ARGUING WITH IMAGINARY INDIVIDUALS" 01:21:07 - MS VARIOUS VIEWS MIDDLE-AGED WOMAN SEATED ON PORCH WITH GATED ENCLOSURE, CONVERSING AND ARGUING WITH IMAGINARY PERSON, MAKES DRAMATIC GESTURES WITH HANDS. 01:21:24 - MAN STANDING BY BARRED WINDOW,(INSIDE FACILITY), HAS CONVERSATION, ARGUMENT WITH IMAGINARY PERSON OUTSIDE WINDOW, TURNS TOWARDS CAMERA, WAVES HIS ARMS DRAMATICALLY, TURNS TO WINDOW, CONTINUES ARGUMENT WITH IMAGINARY PERSON. 01:21:42 - MS VARIOUS VIEWS ELDERLY WOMAN WEARING MASK COVERING ONLY HER EYES, STANDS IN GARDEN POINTING FINGER, TOWARDS CAMERA. AT IMAGINARY PERSON OR PERSONS SHE IS ARGUING OR PREACHING TO. 01:22:09 - SUB TITLE - SILLY GRINNING, OR TALKING TO ONESELF DISTINGUISHES THE HEBOPHRENIC. CU VARIOUS VIEWS YOUNG MAN. MASKED EYES WITH MASK, GRINS, CHUCKLES, AS THOUGH BEING TOLD A JOKE, BEGINS TO TALK TO HIMSELF. 01:22:44 - MS WOMAN WITH MASK, ARMS FOLDED, STANDS IN GARDEN FACING CAMERA, GRINNING, TALKING TO HERSELF. CU FACE SHOT MAN WITH EYES COVERED SMILING, TALKING, TO HIMSELF. 01:23:13 - MS MAN WEARING FACE MASK, SEATED IN WOODEN ARM CHAIR, KNEES CROSSED, MOVING HIS FINGERS, TALKING TO HIMSELF, MAKING WEIRD GESTURES WITH FINGERS TO MOUTH. "MANNERISMS AND MOTOR STEREOTYPES MAY OCCUR IN HEBEPHRENICS, BUT THEY ARE ESSENTIALLY CATATONIC SYMPTOMS". bizarre, weird 01:24:14 - MCU VARIOUS VIEWS MAN IN SUIT, TIE FACING CAMERA, MAKING WEIRD GESTURES WITH HANDS, SCRATCHING CHEST, TAPPING HIP THEN HIS CHEST OVER AND OVER AGAIN, AS HE STANDS IN GARDEN OF FACILITY. 01:25:12 - MS MAN SEATED IN GARDEN CHAIR, HANDS CLASPED, THUMBS UP. WOMAN, SEATED IN WOODEN ARMCHAIR, FACING CAMERA, WEARING EYE MASK, HANDS CLASPED, MOVING FINGERS. CU GRABS THROAT, THEN PUTS HAND ON CHEEK ON LIPS, OVER AND OVER AGAIN. 01:26:00 - "SOME CATATONIC PASSIVELY PERMIT THEIR LIMBS TO BE MOLDED AT EXAMINER'S WILL. THIS WAXY FLEXIBILITY IS CALLED, CEREA FLEXIBILITAS". 01:26:12 - MS DOCTOR, MALE PATIENT IN GARDEN, HAS MAN, EYES MASKED, RAISE ARMS OVERHEAD, THEN MOVES EACH ARM INTO A VARIETY OF POSITIONS, WITH NO RESISTANCE FROM PATIENT. HOWEVER EXAMINER TURNS OR TWISTS THE PATIENT'S BODY, HE STAYS IN THAT POSITION. HOWEVER UNCOMFORTABLE. SAME SEATED IN CHAIR. 01:27:41 - MS TIME LAPSE PHOTOGRAPHY SHOWS MAN WITH MASK WHOSE HANDS WERE PLACED OVERHEAD, BEGINS TO LOWER LIMBS SPONTANEOUSLY, OVER PERIOD OF 30 MINUTES. 01:27:51 - MS MAN STANDS AGAINST WALL WITH ARMS AT HIS SIDE. HE STUBBORNLY RESISTS, STAYS RIGID AS EXAMINER TRIES TO MOVE HIS ARM IN ANY DIRECTION. SEATED IN CHAIR, PATIENT RESISTS EXAMINER AS HE TRIES TO MOVE HEAD, MCU MORE IN STANDING POSITION. 01:28:35 - "PECULIAR POSTURES ARE ASSUMED BY SOME CATATONICS AND OFTEN RETAINED FOR DAYS OR MONTHS". 01:28:45 - MS MAN, EYES MASKED, STANDS BEFORE WALL FACING LEFT, WITH HEAD BOWED, HANDS AT HIS SIDE. MS ANOTHER PARTLY BALD MAN FACING CAMERA, HEAD BOWED, HANDS TO HEAD. MS SAME WITH WOMAN FACING RIGHT. SIDE VIEW WOMAN SEATED IN CHAIR, HEAD BOWED ALMOST TO KNEES. 01:29:12 - MS MASKED WOMAN IN GARDEN FACING CAMERA, HEAD BOWED, BODY RIGID. MAN SEATED IN CHAIR, HEAD BOWED ALMOST TO KNEES BODY RIGID, ANOTHER MASKED MAN SEATED FACING CAMERA. 01:29:46 - MAN, CUDDLED IN CHAIR FACING SIDEWAYS, HEAD RESTING ON HAND, MOVES HEAD TO GET COMFORTABLE. 01:29:52 - "ECHOPRAXIA IS A RARE BUT STRIKING CATATONIC SYMPTOM, SOME INNER FORCES APPEAR TO "COMPEL" THE PATIENT TO REPEAT MOVEMENTS OF OTHERS". 01:30:04 - MS ELDERLY WOMAN PATIENT SEATED ON CHAIR IN GARDEN FACING CAMERA, AND DOCTOR SEATED FACING HER MAKES MOTIONS WITH HANDS WHICH SHE MIMICS, HE GRABS HIS NOSE, SHE GRABS HERS, HE ROTATES HIS HANDS AROUND EACH OTHER, SHE DOES SAME, HE PATS HIS KNEE, SHE PATS HERS AND SO ON WITH ALL OTHER MOTIONS. 01:30:24 - MS DOCTOR LEANS BACK ON CHAIR AND YAWNS, FEMALE MIMICKING HIM LEANS ALL THE WAY BACK UNTIL SHE ALMOST FALLS, BUT FOR THE DOCTOR CATCHING HER. WHEN SEATED AGAIN, WOMAN AGAIN MIMICS ALL MOVEMENTS DOCTOR MAKES, bizarre, weird, oddity 01:31:51 - "IN CONTRAST THE FOLLOWING CASE IS ONE OF PSEUDO-ECHOPRAXIA, REPETITION IS PRESENT BUT THE PERFORMANCE, THOUGH SPONTANEOUS IS SUGGESTIVE OF VOLUNTARY IMPERSONATION". 01:32:06 - MS MALE PATIENT SEATED IN ROCKER, MIMICS ALL HAND AND LEG MOTIONS MADE BY DOCTOR STANDING IN FRONT OF HIM. SAME WITH PATIENT STANDING. DOCTOR BENDS DOWN, PATIENT BENDS DOWN, DOCTOR SQUATS, PATIENT SQUATS AND SO ON.
- Collection: Historic Films
- Producer:Historic Films
- Transmission Date:01/01/1938
- Rights:On request
- Decade: 1930s
- File Name: PA-10