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In 1981, Daniel Grayham, a man with paranoid schizophrenia, escapes from a mental asylum after killing a doctor and stealing his uniform.Three years later, a sociology teacher at St. Trinian's College is murdered whilst working alone in a classroom, and a new teacher, Julie Parker, is hired by the school's handicapped priest headmaster Father Janson to take her place the following semester.
Movies and Mental Illness – Hogrefe Publishing; David J. Robinson, Reel Psychiatry: Movie Portrayals of Psychiatric Conditions, Rapid Psychler Press, 2003, ISBN 1-894328-07-8. Glen O. Gabbard and Krin Gabbard, Psychiatry and the Cinema, American Psychiatric Publishing, Inc., 2nd ed., 1999, ISBN 0-88048-964-2.
The film is based on the four-character stage play Proof.The film adds many bit parts for the sake of realism, and "opens up" the setting considerably. The role of Catherine was first played by Mary-Louise Parker in the play's 2000 Manhattan Theatre Club original production.
The National Alliance for Research on Schizophrenia and Depression aided in the film's production, [5] which was complete by 1992, despite the film not being released until 1996. [6] The following year, a VHS recording of the film was distributed by Wheeler Communications. [7] Susan Gingerich appears in the film, [8] as does Fredrick J. Frese. [9]
Strange Voices is a 1987 American made-for-television drama film about schizophrenia directed by Arthur Allan Seidelman and written by Wayne and Donna Powers. It was one of the ten highest rated made for TV movies that year with a 33 share in the Nielsen Ratings.
Detachment is a 2011 American psychological drama film directed by Tony Kaye and written by Carl Lund. Its story follows Henry Barthes, a high-school substitute teacher who becomes a role model to his students and others.
Michael B. Laudor (born May 12, 1963) is an American graduate of Yale Law School who made national headlines in 1995 for having successfully graduated while suffering from schizophrenia. In 1998, he stabbed to death his pregnant fiancée, Caroline Costello, during an episode of psychosis .
The show takes place in Three Rivers, Connecticut, in the early 1990s. Dominick Birdsey's identical twin, Thomas Birdsey, suffers from paranoid schizophrenia . With medication, Thomas is able to live his life in relative peace and work at a coffee stand, but occasionally, he experiences severe episodes of his illness.