Channel 4 series on mental health: Animated Minds

I've just watched the first of 4 short 'animated documentaries' on mental health topics on Channel 4. The programmes each deal with a different mental health problem - today's was on agoraphobia - and combine voice-over from a person who suffers with a particular problem with animation by way of illustration. The result is quite an interesting and unusual depiction of the problem, which avoids the 'docu-drama' feel that you so often get on this type of programme.

The series is a collaboration between APT Films and the Documentary Filmmakers Group (DFG). Unusually, the producer/director is a working clinical psychologist, Andy Glynne, who also lectures on my DClinPsy course at UCL.

There are three further programmes on Tuesday to Thursday of this week at 7.55. They deal with psychosis (2nd March), obsessive compulsive disorder (3rd March) and finally manic depression (4th March).