The Disordered Mind is a Canadian medical documentary television miniseries which aired sporadically on CBC Television in 1960, 1963 and 1966.
The series concerned actual cases of mental illness, featuring the patients and practitioners involved in each case.
Wednesdays 10:30 p.m. (Eastern), part of Explorations
20 April 1960: "Psychosomatic Disorders: A Coronary" - an insurance agent suffers a stress-related heart attack
27 April 1960: "Psychoneurotic Conditions: A Pathological Anxiety" - an office employee faces anxieties which impair a regular lifestyle
4 May 1960: "Psychotic Conditions: A Depression" - a man afflicted with depression attempts a murder-suicide of his family
11 May 1960: "Anti-Social Personality Disorders: A Psychopath" - a thief who lacks conscience
Wednesdays 10:30 p.m. (Eastern), part of Explorations
20 February 1963: this episode featured the condition and treatment of a young girl's obesity
27 February 1963: "The Obsessive-Compulsive" featured a subject with obsessive–compulsive disorder who remained unemployed for five years due to this condition
6 March 1963: "Psychotic Conditions: Paranoid Schizophrenia" featured a person with paranoid schizophrenia who has resumed normal employment after overcoming that condition
13 March 1963: pre-empted for special
20 March 1963: "The Compulsive Car Thief" featured a young adult who is serving a prison sentence for car thefts, a practice which began at age ten
Sundays 10:30 p.m. (Eastern), stand-alone series
11 September 1966: "The Aggressive Child" - features a combative six-year-old boy
18 September 1966: "Girl in Danger" - concerns a 13-year-old girl who is emotionally less than half her age and deemed "pre-delinquent"
25 September 1966: "Bright Boy, Bad Scholar" - features learning disorders and their early therapy
2 October 1966: "Afraid of School" - concerns a six-year-old boy who avoids school due to an incident during infancy
