Poppy Shakespeare

TV Movie
2008
1h 30m

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Naomie Harris in Poppy Shakespeare (2008)

N has been a day patient at north London's Dorothy Fish day hospital for 13 years - her ambition is never to leave. Then she meets glamourous new patient Poppy Shakespeare, an ad agency rece... Read allN has been a day patient at north London's Dorothy Fish day hospital for 13 years - her ambition is never to leave. Then she meets glamourous new patient Poppy Shakespeare, an ad agency receptionist convinced she's not mad.N has been a day patient at north London's Dorothy Fish day hospital for 13 years - her ambition is never to leave. Then she meets glamourous new patient Poppy Shakespeare, an ad agency receptionist convinced she's not mad.

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Won 1 BAFTA Award
- 2 wins & 2 nominations total

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A study by American Psychologist Rosenhan "On being sane in insane places" demonstrated that psychiatrists cannot reliably distinguish between people with a genuine mental illness and people pretending to have one. Rosenhan sent accomplices to Hospitals, all with the instruction that they complain of one symptom, hearing the word "Thump". All were institutionalized and labeled as being sufferers of a variety of conditions "in remission" upon their discharge. There was much fury from the psychiatric establishment when these results were made public. One psychiatrist challenged Rosenhan to send accomplices again, confident that he could spot them. Rosenhan agreed, and some time later the psychiatrist proudly contacted Rosenhan in the belief that he had found them all, to which Rosenhan responded that he hadn't sent a single one that time. Rosenhans' term for persons in a situation of being mistaken for insane was "pseudopatient"and the subtext of his study is that any social faux pas, intentional or not, could be misinterpreted as a psychiatric symptom by a psychiatrist.

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Poppy Shakespeare: I am not a nutter!

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References BBC Play of the Month: St. Joan (1968)

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8/10

I was an extra on this film

The punchline is - the casting agency contacted me because they knew i was a nurse.

They dressed me as a C. P. N. (Community Psychiatric Nurse), or Social Worker. I waa actually working as a C. P. N. At the time.

I didn't recognize the portrayal of community and hospital mental health services as shown in the film.

However it was apparently supposed to be set in 80's or something. My big moment was walking into the big Psychiatric hospital, down a long corridor while Ms. Maxwell Martin was coming from the other end of the corridor. I couldn't help but let on to her as she approached. This was because, everyone around these units etc, is very friendly and positive in my experience. The atmosphere has to be positive and recovery oriented or it would be unbearable for both service users and staff.

Maybe Ms. Martin thought i was trying to 'corpse' her. Anyway they only ran through it once and i was consigned to the cutting room floor.

Us extras spent the whole day just sat around and my impression was of an unhappy set and crew with an overbearing and unpopular Director.