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Basic Info

First Air: March 22, 2015

Rating: ⭐ 7.4/10 (16 votes)

Status: Ended

Seasons & Episodes

Seasons: 1

Episodes: 2

Last Episode

Name: Part 2

Season: 1, Episode: 2

Air Date: 2015-03-29

Runtime: 60 min

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.

Louis Theroux: By Reason of Insanity

2015 1 seasons 2 episodes ⭐ 7.4/10 16 votes

Overview

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.