Mental Health in the Legal Profession
Tristan Jepson Memorial Foundation 2008 Lecture Ian Hickie presents research on mental health issues in the Australian legal profession. He discusses help-seeking behaviours, productivity, disability,...
View ArticleMental Health Day: Canadian Homelessness and Addictions
Cameron Candid interview with a Fort McMurray, Alberta man who is homeless and dealing with a drug addiction, talking about the lack of accessible drug rehab programs, a dangerous story of life and...
View ArticleMariel Hemingway Honoured
Challenging The Stigma of Mental Illness & Suicide Mariel Hemingway accepts The McLean Award for her efforts to inspire mental health and wellness. She talks about coming from a family with seven...
View ArticleRethinking Worlds
Possible Worlds: Hearing Voices or Uninvited Guests Art video featuring performance poetry and imagery about modern living and madness. Winner of the 2011 reTHiNK Possible Worlds award, with the theme...
View ArticleMedia and Mental Health
Andre Picard: Mental Health and the Media An interview with a health reporter for The Globe & Mail, a national Canadian newspaper. Topics include mental health stigma, sensationalization,...
View ArticleChains and Prayers as Treatment
Click here to view with English subtitles Mentally Ill Seek Afghan Shrines, Not Hospitals With only 80 mental health treatment beds for an entire country of (an estimated) 29 million people (in 2009),...
View ArticleWhat’s a Peer Support Group?
Inspiration Through Empathy: Peer Support A short documentary by a student filmmaker about a peer support group in Kelowna, BC, Canada. A group of mental health consumers meets weekly, views a...
View ArticleGlobal Mental Health
Dr. Pamela Collins on Global Mental Health Challenges Dr. Collins discusses the Grand Challenges meeting to prioritize research needs from countries around the globe, as well as emerging ways of...
View ArticleEncouraging Poem
May My Words Be Your Wings - A young poet performs a poem written for people undergoing emotional turmoil. “You are stronger than your sorrow,” he urges YouTube viewers. Earnest and authentic...
View ArticleSolving Homelessness
The Here At Home web documentary explores the mental health and homelessness research project At Home/Chez Soi. It’s a five-site study that has housed about 1000 homeless participants with mental...
View ArticleTo This Day: Recovering from Bullying
Heartwrenching and visually exquisite, “To This Day” is an animated journey into the effects of bullying. Mental health problems, long lasting impacts on self-esteem, and other consequences result...
View Article‘To This Day’ Live at TED
Spoken word artist Shane Koyczan gives a live performance of “To This Day” in a TED Talk. Accompanied by a violinist, as well as the crowdsourced animation from the viral video (with 7.5 million views...
View ArticleFinding Hope from an Attempt Survivor on World Suicide Prevention Day
In Finding Hope, a short and inspiring video, a child sexual abuse survivor talks about his suicide attempt and recovery. No matter how close to the brink you may be or have been, there is hope. Read...
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