Jamie Pickup
Director
Louis Theroux: By Reason of Insanity (2015)
Miniseries
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.
Released March 22, 2015
Episode 60 min
None+
Genres: Crime, Documentary, Reality
Keywords: mdblist.imdb-tv-mini-series, imdb.tv-mini-series
Production Companies: BBC
Network: BBC Two
Country: United Kingdom
Languages:
English
S1E1 - Part 1
Louis spends time with patients attempting to come to terms with their crimes and the clinicians entrusted with helping to make them safe. And he investigates the difficult question - when is a patient with a serious crime in their past ready to be returned to the outside world?
March 22, 2015, midnight
S1E2 - Part 2
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.
March 29, 2015, midnight
Network: BBC Two
Episode Runtime: 60 min.
Season Runtime: 120 min.
Released: March 22, 2015
Last Air Date: March 29, 2015, midnight
Status: Ended
Certification: NR
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