Synopsis
Demonstrates characteristic symptoms of stuporous catatonia. Presents three male patients showing such symptoms as lack of activity, obliviousness of environment, negativism, inflexibility, and automatic obedience. For medical profession and allied scientific groups
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Details
- Running time
- 11 minutes
- Language
- English
- Collection
- Educational Films, Ephemeral Films
Subjects on the Internet Archive
- Schizophrenia
- Catatonia
Reviews on the Internet Archive
★★★★ · young men with limited ability to initiate movement · flowerbot · 2022-02-03
I wonder how the doctor knows that they "almost certainly" are aware of what is going on around them - other than the fact that one of them was able to follow commands to stand and turn and another was able to provide a faint verbal response to a question. I suppose that clinical staff notice subtle behavioral indications of awareness after observing the patients over time in different situations. These men seem to have very little ability to intentionally direct their actions or visual gaze without a direct physical prompt, or an explicit verbal command. They did seem to be responding to…
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