Synopsis
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.
- Programme: Horizon
- Series: 1985
- Episode: A World of Their Own
- Channel: BBC Two
- Broadcast year: 1985
- Psychology | Modern approaches to mental health | The roles of psychologists and psychiatrists Using the ICD and DSM to diagnose depression, phobias and schizophrenia.
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