Friern Barnet Hospital Treats Schizophrenic Patients 1940s Film 1001481

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This film is available to license from our website at Huntley Film Archives, by searching for film 1001481 in our Film # search bar: • https://www.huntleyarchives.com/ • Electric shock treatment of schizophrenia • Probably Friern Barnet Hospital, north London. Mental asylum. • Schizophrenia. Old fashioned crude methods of mental health treatment. • Hypoglycaemic induction of coma. Shots of medical apparatus. Nurse enters data into book. Row of drowsy patients in beds. Man sweats profusely. Men grimace, people salivate, restlessness, patients squirm in 'padded beds'. Taking pulses, shaking and slapping patients. Corneal reflex, grasping reflex, twitching of facial muscles, twitching of limbs, sucking of doctor's finger, Babinski (foot) test, flexing and extension spasms, laryngeal spasms, depression of reflexes. Nasal reeding of glucose to terminate coma (testing for gastric juice with litmus). Intravenous feeding. Patient recovers, fumbles with slice of bread. • E.C.T. electric shock treatment. Shots of apparatus, cleaning of temples with spirit, Female patient convulses on the table. Occupational therapy, basket-weaving, embroidery for women, man throw footballs to each other, man is given 'the bumps', men do sit-ups, butlins-style exercises. Women dig allotment, men play. Football, young man talks to therapist. • Huntley Film Archives is a film library holding tens of thousands of films. The large majority of the films are documentaries. Films cover a wide range of subjects and production dates range from the 1890’s to the 2020’s. As with all libraries we make no judgement on the content of our holdings and make them available for educational purposes for all to see. Films may have content or express opinions some may think inappropriate or offensive, but it is not the work of a library to censor educational resources. Films should be viewed with historical objectivity and within a context relevant to the times in which they were produced

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