Returning to the Roundtable from 2005 Janet Werner & her business partner, Dr. Calvin Chatlos present progress on Rethinking Mental Health.  It’s More than a Movie. It’s a Movement.

As a psychiatric survivor and respectable businesswoman Janet, offers us a chance to witness over 50 years of mental health research that now lands us with 2 media productions in development requiring an executive producer and funding support.  In addition, Janet & her business partner, Calvin Chatlos, MD brief us on the A.W.A.R.E. movement growing around the USA & globe. 

• Break DOWN, Break OPEN, Break THROUGH™ – a docuseries in development

LOGLINE: Spirituality clashes with psychiatric diagnoses. Follow a 50-year journey through the mental healthcare system featuring personal narratives and expert insights from people having spiritual experiences from around the globe. This docuseries reveals the complexities surrounding misdiagnosis, involuntary institutionalization, and forced treatments, offering hope in unifying to affect change.

• Calling God to the Witness Stand™ – a feature length film in development based on a true story 

LOGLINE: A successful businesswoman and single mom take on the state of New Jersey’s mental health system in an unprecedented court case, suing the psychiatric institution that misdiagnosed her spiritually transformative experience as bipolar disorder, leading to an involuntary hospitalization and forced medication.

• A.W.A.R.E. Are We Aware of the Religious & spiritual Experiences in Mental Health Crisis Care? How do we prevent moral injury in 911 & 988 crisis calls? How are we training first responders, mental health professionals & religious/spiritual leaders in the standard of care when folks are having a religious or spiritual experience?

Janet Werner, M Ed. JanetWerner@UHaveMyWord.com. President, U Have My Word LLC. Executive Coach & Corporate System Transformation Consultant for over 40 years. Mental health advocate with lived experience of being wrongfully misdiagnosed as Bipolar, involuntarily incarcerated into a mental institution and forced on antipsychotic medication against her will. Documentary producer:  Break DOWN, Break OPEN, Break THROUGH. Movie producer:  Calling God to the Witness Stand – IMDb

Calvin Chatlos, MD jchatlos@avatarresidentialdetox.com. Business partner & investor on media productions. Professor of Psychiatry, Rutgers-RWJ Medical School certified in adult, child & adolescent, and addiction psychiatry. Avatar Residential Detox Center, Medical Director, Ringwood, NJ. Lived experiences of psychosis, panic attacks with medication responsive depressive disorder. Speaker on a Framework for Spirituality at international conferences. Distinguished Life Fellow of the American Psychiatric Assoc and a Distinguished Fellow of the America Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry. Dr. Chatlos offers a new Biopsychosocial-Spiritual Model for transforming traditional medical and psychiatric practice.

We will show short briefs from the following teasers for the docuseries & feature length movie in development.

PART 1 Documentary Demo Part 1 v 2 (youtube.com)

Breaking DOWN, Breaking OPEN, Breaking THROUGH teaser (youtube.com)

Calling God to the Witness Stand PR Media (youtube.com)