A Place for Madness

About

Examines the troubling conflict between protecting the rights of the mentally ill to live outside mental hospitals and safeguarding society from those who are dangerous to themselves and to others.

1 videocassette (57 min.) : 1/2 in

General public, health personnel

VHS

Closed captioned for the hearing impaired

Narrated by Will Lyman ; interviews of Alan Stone, Steven Schwartz, Homayoun Shirazi, Clyde Bergstresser, Maurice Richardson, and released mental patients and their families and neighbors

Written and produced by DeWitt Sage ; associate producer, Rebecca-Berman ; director of photography, Bob Richman ; editor, David Hanser ; second editor, Dena Seidel ; sound recordist and video engineer, Eddie O'Connor ; additional sound, Michael Barofsky ; gaffer, Jonathan Nichols ; on-line editor, Steve Fitzpatrick ; mixer, Ken Hahn ; courtroom drawings by Christine Cornell. For Frontline: Post-production producer, Robin Parmelee ; production manager, Hersh Shorey ; post-production supervisor, Colleen Wilson ; off-line editor, Janis L. Henwood Khorsi ; on-line editors, Mary Fenton, Dan Lesiw ; associate producer, Courtney Hayes ; series editor, Mame Campbell ; senior producers, Michael Sullivan, Martin Smith ; executive editor, Louis Wiley, Jr. ; executive producer, David Fanning

Funding provided by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and public television viewers

An episode of the television program Frontline

Archive

Internet Archive, in The VHS Vault

Licence or status

The Internet Archive states none for this item.

Credit

Dewitt L Sage, Michael Sullivan, Martin Smith, David Fanning, Will Lyman, WGBH Educational Foundation., WGBH (Television station : Boston, Mass.), Public Broadcasting Service (U.S.), PBS Video.

Language

English

Subtitles

English

Who can watch

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