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Campus Film Distributors CorporationActivity Group Therapy (Part IV) (1950)

Shows socially-maladjusted boys 10 to 11 years old being benefitted therapeutically by "acting out" their disturbances upon their environment and each other in a realistic situation with an emotionally neutral therapist and concealed cameras and microphones. A fascinating mental health film produced for professional audiences.


This movie is part of the collection: Prelinger Archives

Producer: Campus Film Distributors Corporation
Sponsor: Nathan Hofheimer Foundation, Inc.
Audio/Visual: Sd, B&W
Keywords: Psychology; Medicine: Psychiatry; Children: Psychology

Creative Commons license: Public Domain

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Reviewer: discardedmuffin - - April 9, 2007
Subject: WE"LL FIX YOU SO YOU GROW UP!
In this video, they make it seem has though they've "cured" Albert of his effeminacy or Henry of his shyness...but isn't it possible that these were just development phases they would grow out of? I kind of wonder what they would have done if Albert had still kept playing with dolls or whatever, since if his personality was just naturally effeminate and NOT a phase, there isn't one darn thing any amount of therapy could have done to change that.

Reviewer: ERD - - May 22, 2006
Subject: Times have changed.
"Activity Group Therapy" (Parts 1 through 4) is now dated in many ways. This film was dealing with another generation at another time. Many factors were left out. Open group therapy does not work for all children. Some need a more structured enviroment than others. Methods in psychology constantly change. It is a long way from being an exact science. The film is mainly interesting historically.

Reviewer: Spuzz - - December 12, 2002
Subject: Albert is now cutting wood.. he's less feminite..
( Full Film! ) Join us now as we're presented to what appears to be the TV reality show 'Big Brother' only with socially maladjusted teenage boys. Activity Group Therapy, which, yes, I had to participate in, when I was a kid, is somwhat puzzingly presented here, as total agression and mischief is seen as progress. One kid starts a fire in the kitchen during the latter groups, and the kids join in, watching it burn, but the counsellour watching the group will not intervene until 'only neccessary'. When will that be? Soon, the kids calm down after the first initial outbursts, the psychiatrists see this as progress. I see this as the beginning of becoming a sociopath.

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A report on the selection of cases for activity group therapy, the conduct of the therapeutic sessions and the personality developments of a group of emotionally disturbed boys during treatment. Shows socially-maladjusted children ten to eleven years old being benefited therapeutically by "acting out" their disturbances upon their environment and each other. Presents Henry's anxiety hysteria. Bob's aggressiveness, and Albert's effimacy in a relaistic situation with an emotionally neutral therapist and concealed cameras and microphones. Argues for encouraging boys to form a club and work things out for themselves. Recommended for use only by individuals or groups professionally concerned with psychiatric, social, and medical fields.
Sound not in synch with picture.

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