The Disordered Mind

The Disordered Mind is a Canadian medical documentary television miniseries which aired sporadically on CBC Television in 1960, 1963 and 1966.

The Disordered Mind
Genre	documentary
Directed by	Robert Anderson Henwar Rodakiewicz
Presented by	Robert Anderson
Narrated by	H.B. Durost Heinz Lehmann Henry Kravitz
Music by	Hugh Le Caine
Country of origin	Canada
Original language	English
No. of seasons	3
No. of episodes	12
Production
Producer	Robert Anderson
Cinematography	Doug Wilkinson Robert Crone Roger Moride
Editors	Fergus McDonell Don Evraire
Running time	30 minutes
Production company	Robert Anderson Associates
Original release
Network	CBC Television
Release	20 April 1960 (1960-04-20) – 2 October 1966 (1966-10-02)

Premise

The series concerned actual cases of mental illness, featuring the patients and practitioners involved in each case.^[1]

Scheduling

First series

Wednesdays 10:30 p.m. (Eastern), part of Explorations

• 20 April 1960: "Psychosomatic Disorders: A Coronary" - an insurance agent suffers a stress-related heart attack.^[2]
• 27 April 1960: "Psychoneurotic Conditions: A Pathological Anxiety" - an office employee faces anxieties which impair a regular lifestyle.^[3]
• 4 May 1960: "Psychotic Conditions: A Depression" - a man afflicted with depression attempts a murder-suicide of his family.^[4]
• 11 May 1960: "Anti-Social Personality Disorders: A Psychopath" - a thief who lacks conscience.^[5]

Second series

Wednesdays 10:30 p.m. (Eastern), part of Explorations

• 20 February 1963: "Psychosomatic Conditions: Obesity" (1963) - the treatment of a young girl's obesity.^[6][7]
• 27 February 1963: "The Obsessive-Compulsive Neurosis" featured a subject with obsessive–compulsive disorder who remained unemployed for five years due to this condition.^[8][9]
• 6 March 1963: "Psychotic Conditions: Paranoid Schizophrenia" featured a person with paranoid schizophrenia who has resumed normal employment after overcoming that condition.^[10][11]
• 20 March 1963: "The Compulsive Car Thief" featured a young adult who is serving a prison sentence for car thefts, a practice which began at age ten.^[12][13]

Third series

Sundays 10:30 p.m. (Eastern), stand-alone series

• 11 September 1966: "Aggressive Child" - features a combative six-year-old boy.^[14]
• 18 September 1966: "Girl in Danger" - concerns a 13-year-old girl who is emotionally less than half her age and deemed "pre-delinquent".^[15]
• 25 September 1966: "Bright Boy, Bad Scholar" - features learning disorders and their early therapy.^[16]
• 2 October 1966: "Afraid of School" - concerns a six-year-old boy who avoids school due to an incident during infancy.^[17]