Product Details

• Actors: Chris Vance, Jacqueline McKenzie, Derek Webster, Nicholas Gonzalez, Marisa Ramirez
• Format: AC-3, Box set, Color, Dolby, DVD, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
• Language: English
• Subtitles: English, French, Spanish
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1
• Number of discs: 4
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Studio: 20th Century Fox
• DVD Release Date: December 1, 2009
• Run Time: 572 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 3.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B002NUULQS
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #120,439 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

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An odd duck himself, Dr. Jack Gallagher (Chris Vance, a dead ringer for the young Harvey Keitel) directs the psychiatric services at Wharton Memorial in Los Angeles. In the pilot episode alone, he invites a patient to a staff meeting, breaks into another's home, and disrobes to put a delusional man at ease. Throughout the season, Jack continues to broach protocol in ways that particularly irk his nemesis, senior staffer Carl Belle (Derek Webster). As Gallagher tells residents Arturo (Nicholas Gonzalez) and Chloe (Marisa Ramirez), "We treat the patient, not just the disease." Because he gets results, departmental administrator Nora (Annabella Sciorra) supports his methods. Some of the more interesting cases revolve around pseudocyesis (hysterical pregnancy), folie à deux (shared psychosis), autism in a murder witness, and narcissistic personality disorder in an actor who recalls Christian Bale--and a few other A-listers. To add a little pizzazz to the scenario, delusions come to life through special effects (some better than others). End result: viewers not already acquainted with the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM IV) will get a crash course.

As with most medical series, personal issues also come to the fore, in this case through Jack's search for his schizophrenic sister, the affair his colleague Veronica (The 4400's Jacqueline McKenzie) has with another doctor, and Arturo's strained relationship with his soap opera father. Notable guest stars include Samantha Eggar as Jack's mother, Sex and the City's Willie Garson as a compulsive gambler, and David Carradine as the victim of a lightning strike (in an eerie touch, his character doesn't utter a single word). Fox's attempts to market the show as House Jr. backfired as Mental met with cancellation after 13 episodes, but there's some intriguing material here, and it deserved more of a chance to find an audience. --Kathleen C. Fennessy

Product Description

If you like House, then you’ll go “Mental” for Dr. Jack Gallagher. He’s a radically unorthodox psychiatrist who takes on patients battling unknown, misunderstood and often misdiagnosed psychiatric conditions. While House treats the body…Gallagher treats the mind!

• Audio: English: 5.1 Dolby Digital
• Language: Dubbed: English / Subtitled: English, French & Spanish
• Theatrical Aspect Ratio: Widescreen: 1.78:1

Customer Reviews

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8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars One of the Best Summer Shows, November 9, 2009

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Lourdes Gutierrez "OnePerCentClub" (Mazatlan, Mexico) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Mental: The Complete First Season (DVD)

It is completely ridiculous when people compare this show to House because there is absolutely no comparison. Jack Gallagher is a psychologist who uses any unconventional method to try to heal a patient, even when he has his own demons.
I definitely recommend this show. Chris Vance gives an amazing performance as Dr. Gallagher, the cast has enough chemistry and the cases are very interesting to keep you watching and enjoying the craziness, and I'm not mocking.
Too bad the season was short. I really hope FOX brings it back. There is so much more to be explored.

6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Dr. Jack Gallagher, the psychiatrist, is the whole show, December 15, 2009

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carol irvin "carol irvin" (United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Mental: The Complete First Season (DVD)

This series shows promise. In its present incarnation it is roughly 3 stars but with work could make it to 4. The premise is psychiatry as practiced by a psychiatrist who is willing to try new and controversial methods in order to make a breakthrough with the seriously ill mental patient. For example, with a patient who thinks he is a werewolf, Gallagher has him bite him and then the two lie side by side waiting for the moon to come up. Gallagher has told the patient they will not change to werewolves and he is now in it with him to show him it is in his mind.

Dr. Jack Gallagher, the psychiatrist, is the whole show. Everyone else could be recast. In fact, you could put the whole show into an entirely different hospital and not miss a thing. When the show detoured into hospital politics and jockeying for position, it was not good. When it stuck with Gallagher, his methods and the patients, it was fine. The show wasted space with jockeying among various psychiatrists who wanted Gallagher's job. This is barely interesting in real life to non medical people, much less on a tv show.

Gallagher is obsessed with his mentally ill sister, Becky, who is AWOL in the world at large. This is somewhat resolved as the series goes on and this aspect can also be dumped without any loss to the show.

2 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars well worth it, January 31, 2010

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This review is from: Mental: The Complete First Season (DVD)

I bought this DVD at a lower price than listed now, and it was in perfect condition, packaged great, no complaints to be written.