We’ve been fortunate to have a great partnership with Good Docs, allowing our film to reach a wide and diverse audience over the years. The feedback from screenings across the United States and internationally continues to inspire us.
Amy Chandler who is a professor of the sociology of health and illness at the University of Edinburgh, UK. recently reviewed THE S WORD for the Films for the Feminist Classroom. Amy leads research focusing on multi-disciplinary, qualitatively driven studies of suicide and self-harm, as well as the sociology of mental health and illness.
Here is a portion of the review and you can read the full article on the FFC website.
“The S Word is useful for addressing mental health and illness, and particularly the role of “service user” or “lived experience” perspectives. The importance of the views and experiences of people who have direct experience with either a condition/issue (such as suicide) or mental health services (“service users”) is increasingly accepted within mental health fields more broadly.”
“The S Word is also accompanied by a number of free resources specifically designed to support the public showing of the film or its use in classroom settings. Thus, there is a careful consideration in the materials—and the content of the documentary—that clearly reflects a concern with some of the debates noted above about the potentially harmful effects of sharing knowledge about suicide.”
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