A World of Their Own | Horizon

Duration: 49'11''

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Filmed at Friern Barnet mental hospital in North London, a look at the work of the consultant psychiatrists whose job is to come to a diagnosis of the patients illnesses and find the most appropriate way to deal with them.

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