TV & Radio Alert – 31 July 2010 onwards.....

 

Ongoing Storylines

Hollyoaks –  Newt (who was diagnosed with Schizophrenia) Hannah (eating disorder).  EastEnders –Stacey Slater  (bipolar disorder)

 

 

Monday 2 August 2010

Film: Girl, Interrupted

9.00 pm Fiver

Intense drama based on a true story, in which a teenage girl is placed in a New England mental institution where she meets a charismatic sociopath.

 

Monday 2 August 2010

Word of Mouth

11.00 pm BBC Radio 4

Investigates the inner monologue to find out how we talk to ourselves.  Are the words we think the same as the ones we speak?

 

Tuesday 3 August 2010

Who Knows Best: Can’t Sleep Kids

9.00 pm C4

Two experts with opposed methods of dealing with children with insomnia test their formulas.  One is a psychologist.

 

Tuesday 3 August 2010

Robert Winston’s Musical Analysis

1.30 pm BBC Radio 4

Exploring the relationship between the music and the medical conditions of composers who suffered mental and physical illness.

 

Thursday 5 August 2010

Film: A Beautiful Mind

11.50 pm Modern Greats

Russell Crowe as the mathematics genius struggling with schizophrenia.

 

Thursday 5 August 2010

Generation Gap: Mental Health

3.45 pm BBC Radio 4

Depression sufferers Una and Andrew discuss how technology has changed the way in which mental health has been treated since the 1970s.

 

Thursday 15 July 2010

Night Waves

9.15 pm BBC Radio 3

Philip Dodd talks to the psychoanalyst Adam Phillips about his new book, On Balance, which explores what we can learn from fairy tales.

 

Friday 6 August 2010

Film: Analyze That

10.30 pm ITV1

A sequal to Analyze This.  After faking a breakdown, imprisoned mobster Paul Vitti is released into the custody of his psychiatrist.