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- Title
- Asylum (Riverview Hospital Story Project: Part One)
- Author(s)
- Lisa G. Nielsen (Director), Heidi Currie (Film producer), Norma McMurdo (Interviewee)
- Date
- 2008
- Abstract
- An interview with nurse Norma McMurdo, who reflects on her time working at Riverview Hospital in Coquitlam, B.C. from 1949 to 1951. Includes compassionate memories of lesbian patients who were not mentally ill. Part One of the Riverview Hospital Project.
- Subject(s)
- Essondale Asylum (Coquitlam, B.C.), Riverview Hospital (Coquitlam, B.C.), Psychiatric nurses--British Columbia--Interviews, Psychiatric hospitals--British Columbia--Coquitlam--History, Mental health facitilities--British Columbia--Coquitlam--History, Riverview Hospital Story Project, Coquitlam, British Columbia
- Title
- Consciousness (Riverview Hospital Story Project: Part Three): [a story about Dr. Ralph Arrowsmith and Riverview Mental Hospital]
- Author(s)
- Lisa G. Nielsen (Director), Heidi Currie (Film producer), Anna Tremere (Film producer), Linnea Jean (Photographer), Dr. Ralph Arrowsmith (Interviewee)
- Date
- 2012
- Abstract
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Tells the story of Dr. Ralph Arrowsmith, a mid-20th century psychiatrist with a life-long connection to Coquitlam's Riverview Hospital [formerly Essendale asylum], a mental institution that opened in 1913 and closed in 2011. Dr. Arrowsmith, who was passionate about the psychiatric movement and deeply committed to his patients, recounts his years of practice with frank discussions of the treatment and perception of the mentally ill at the iconic mental hospital, from the peak of the institutional movement through deinstitutionalization.
Consciousness is part three of the Riverview Hospital Story Project.
- Subject(s)
- Riverview Hospital Story Project, Psychiatrists--British Columbia--Interviews, Mental health facilities--British Columiba--Coquitlam--History, Psychiatric hospitals--British Columbia--Coquitlam--History, Psychiatric hospital care--British Columbia--Coquitlam--History, Mentally ill--Care--British Columbia--Coquitlam--History, Crease Clinic (Coquitlam,B.C.), Electroconvulsive therapy--British Columbia--History, Riverview Hospital (Coquitlam, B.C.), Coquitlam, British Columbia