Medicating Normal – The Film – 28th of February 2021 @ 4 pm – 8 pm.

Sunday, 28th of February 2021 @ 4 pm – 8 pm

Medicating Normal -The Film

Hosted by The Society for Existential Analysis

Medicating Normal follows the journeys of a newly married couple, a female combat veteran, a waitress and a teenager whose doctors prescribed psychiatric drugs for stress, depression, sleeplessness, focus and trauma. The subjects struggle with serious physical and mental side effects as well as neurological damage which resulted from taking the drugs as prescribed and also from attempting to withdraw. 

Please join us for a community screening of Medicating Normal with an interactive discussion afterward.

Schedule for Sunday, 28th of February

4:00 pm GMT: Welcome & Introduction

4:10 pm GMT: Virtual screening of Medicating Normal (~76-min run time)

5:25 pm GMT: 15-minute intermission

5:40-7:40 pm GMT: Post-screening Q&A/Community Discussion immediately following the film

Community Discussion:

The screening of Medicating Normal will be followed by an exclusive live community discussion/Q&A featuring the following panellists:

Lynn Cunningham, Director/Producer, Executive Producer, Medicating Normal

Angela Peacock, MSW, U.S. Army veteran, mental health advocate, subject of the film

Marwa Azab, Ph.D., is an adjunct professor of psychology and human development at California State University, Long Beach. She studied psychology for many years and completed a masters in counseling from Toronto, Canada and her Ph.D. in neuroscience from University of California, Irvine, where she taught in the biology department. She has given four TEDx talks, including;

“The Logical Vs. The Reflexive Brain: Only One Wins” & “Highly Sensitive? Should you change?”

This event will take place on Zoom. A link will be sent prior to the date.

A Certificate of Attendance will be emailed to participants.

SEA members enjoy a 25% discount at checkout.

If you think you have a new and interesting topic to share with us and would like to be our next speaker please don’t hesitate to contact our events organiser on events@existentialanalysis.org.uk.