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Link: [bBC] Link: [Alluc] New documentary by Louis Theroux, interesting as always, leaves you with a lot to think about. Feel free to share your thoughts on the documentary and on the subject matter in general, I'm interested to hear what anyone here thinks about this. Of course these cases would need to be more deeply examined to get a real sense of all the dynamics behind these kids and their families. I have to say, though, that I got a sense of emptiness and a lack of bonding from these parents. So I wouldn't be surprised if a child didn't find their current self satisfying enough in a similar family situation. Who knows what exactly leads them to focus on their gender in dealing with this, but I'd say these issues are rooted in dysfunction and would need to be explored further.

Link IMDB There's been a lot of hype about this lately. Should be good.

Louis immerses himself in the world of Ohio's state psychiatric hospitals, meeting patients who have committed crimes - at times horrifically violent - while in the grip of severe mental illness. They have been found not guilty by reason of insanity and ordered by the courts to secure psychiatric facilities to receive the treatment that it is hoped will, one day, lead to their reintegration back into society. In the second episode of this two-part series, Louis spends time with patients whose personalities are so intertwined with their illness that it makes them more difficult to treat. In doing so, he examines the grey area between criminal actions and medical symptoms, and investigates how we define insanity. Part 1 [BBC] Part 2 [BBC] [FDR topic on part 1] Use Hola plugin to access links from UK servers.

http://www.alluc.com/l/Louis-Theroux-By-Reason-Of-Insanity-S01E01-x264-C4TV/zbbeu7d3 Highly recommend this as it is interesting and insightful as Theroux's documentaries usually are plus it deals with mental illness. Of course there is the general idea of heavy medication that is put forward as a cure for their "illness" and pain of childhood trauma is sadly and expectedly left entirely undiscussed. As a specific example, there was a man who had killed his father, whom he believed had sexually abused him and Theroux or the psychiatrist don't seem even slightly interested whether the father had actually done it. Instead Theroux keeps asking the patient questions like "Do you/did you love your father". I'm sure he could never prove that his father raped him as he was thirtysomething when he killed him but I kept imagining some analogous situation where in a documentary the interviewer keeps implying to a rape victim who had killed their assailant that they should have instead loved their rapist. How sick would that be?

An ex adult film star, a 12 year old girl and a 22 year old who yearns for "normal" private parts are chronicled in this thought provoking doc about how porn, social media and pop culture affect women and girls. [imdb link] Highly recommend this doc if only to see how the highly intelligent 12 old girl gets sucked in to the peer-oriented culture of slutiness, social media, sex etc as she starts going through puberty.

Jeff Berwick has interviewed a man I have never heard about, Mark Corske, in the last Anarchast. The interview was mostly about a book he has written named Engines of Domination. It has also been turned into a documentary available on youtube: I have just finished watching and I think it was pretty decent, worth the time. It has a similar approach to analyzing state as Stef's True News 13: Statism is Dead but it also comes up with a couple of fresh angles - check it out!

I just wanted to let you guys know that Daniel posted his documentaries up on YouTube.I thought it would be nice if more people got exposed to those videos and his documentaries, since I think he is doing a great job.http://www.youtube.com/user/dmackler58(His YouTube page)http://wildtruth.net/ (And his webpage)

Hjernevask (Brainwash) is a Norwegian popular science documentary series that aired on Norwegian television in 2010. The series was produced by Harald Eia and Ole Martin Ihle, and was completed in seven episodes consisting of interviews with Norwegian and foreign researchers who have different views on the nature versus nurture debate. Ihle has stated that the pair initially planned to make a TV program about the biology associated with Darwin year, but Steven Pinker's controversial bestseller The Blank Slate convinced them to "go a little deeper into the biological basis for the difference between people".[1] 2010, Eia received the Fritt Ord Honorary Award "for, through the programme Brainwash, having precipitated one of the most heated debates on research in recent times."[2] ~ Wiki Brainwashed Science on TV Creates Storm, 2010 "What Eia had done, was to first interview the Norwegian social scientists on issues like sexual orientation, gender roles, violence, education and race, which are heavily politicized in the Norwegian science community. Then he translated the interviews into English and took them to well-known British and American scientists like Robert Plomin, Steven Pinker, Anne Campbell, Simon Baron-Cohen, Richard Lippa, David Buss, and others, and got their comments. To say that the American and British scientists were surprised by what they heard, is an understatement." The ("Brainwashing") - English - Part 1 - The Gender Equality Paradox, video: http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xp0tg8_hjernevask-brainwashing-in-norway-english-part-1-the-gender-equality-paradox_news

Description: "Mr. Kanamori, a teacher of a 4th grade class, teaches his students not only how to be students, but how to live. He gives them lessons on teamwork, community, the importance of openness, how to cope, and the harm caused by bullying. In the award-winning documentary Children Full of Life, a fourth-grade class in a primary school in Kanazawa, northwest of Tokyo, learn lessons about compassion from their homeroom teacher, Toshiro Kanamori. He instructs each to write their true inner feelings in a letter, and read it aloud in front of the class. By sharing their lives, the children begin to realize the importance of caring for their classmates. Toshiro is an amazing example of what all teachers across the world should be like. He truly understands what teaching children is all about and certainly made a positive difference in the lives of these 10 year olds." Don't know if it has been posted before, I searched but didn't find anything. I found the documentary to be very moving. My favorite scene is when the little boy stands up to the teacher which, considering the cultural background, is a pretty formidable feat.

Hello to all Freedomain listeners in the Vancouver, BC area! On Monday, July 29th 8-10pm the West Coast Mental Health Network (WCMHN) will be hosting a special screening of New Documentary "Coming off Psych Drugs: A Meeting of the Minds". $5 suggested donation at the door (hosted at the Unitarian Church of Vancouver). Look forward to seeing other FDR listeners!