Mental Health (Keeping Mentally Fit) (1952)

★★★★ · good mental film. · Karma Hawk · 2005-03-30

This film about how to keep mentally fit is good and really could probobly still be used today. Another reviewer mentioned something about the film makers putting too much of a personal agenda into it, personally I didn't see it that way at all. An old country doctor narrates this peace and tells the audience about his various patients, it's a good setup and keeps the audience intrested untill the end.

★★★ · Mental Health · Christine Hennig · 2002-11-11

A kindly old country doctor tells us the Four Commandments of Mental Health (1. Don't bottle up your emotions; 2. Respect your abilities, i.e. don't be a perfectionist; 3. Respect other people, i.e. fit in; and 4. Attend to problems immediately, i.e. don't be a procrastinator), and violates the rules of confidentiality by illustrating his rules with detailed case studies of local teenagers. Of course, all these teenagers have problems as complex and difficult as the characters of "Leave It to Beaver," and they are solved in even less than 30 minutes. No wonder they need only a country doctor…

★★★ · "My parents are trying to sell me off to the highest bidder!" · Spuzz · 2003-11-09

EB films can fall into 2 categories. The boring ones, and the loopy ones. This is one of the loopy ones when a small town doctor watches a graduation going on and sums it all up for us, 2 of these grads will wind up in a mental institution! And further goes around the bend when he states that the best way to stay out of the looney bin is to not keep your emotions bottled up! Wow, interesting theory! Anyways, get more friends! Stop thinking that your the best! No! Your parents don't want to get rid of you! Stop Thae blubbering! All too ridiculous. The doctor should REALLY worry about the way…