Summary: At some point, you contemplate suicide. You think, 'This is useless. I'm suffering too much. What's in store for me?' In this program, patients share their stories of terror and triumph as they struggle to deal with their irrational fears and avoidance behaviors. In addition, mental health professionals contrast behavioral cognitive psychotherapy, augmented by video conferencing and virtual...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Summary: This program shows panic attacks as a symptom of other stress-related conditions-specific phobias, agoraphobia, generalized anxiety disorders-and also as a separate condition. A housewife and businessman tell how panic attacks placed limitations on their daily lives and how they finally sought help and relief. A specialist in behavioral psychotherapy provides professional advice on how to...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: This program from The Doctor Is In explains anxiety disorders, which include panic attacks, phobias, and agoraphobia. It follows two agoraphobics through three years of treatment; a man discusses his phobia of poisoning himself; and a woman shows how she worked through a fear of flying. Researchers explain their evidence for a biological cause for anxiety disorders. Doctors David Sheehan of the...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Summary: This multi-award-winning collection of 8 three- to six-minute micro-documentaries attempts to communicate the subjective experience of abnormal psychological states by blending edgy animation with narration by people who live each day with debilitating mental conditions. Impressionistic, abstract, and even surreal, these dark cinematic gems are designed to help eliminate misconceptions about...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2009
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Summary: When renowned psychologist Paul Salkovskis offers three agoraphobics a base from which to battle their fears, each sufferer embraces the opportunity to utilize the professor's "safe house." There's only one problem-getting there. This program illustrates the paralyzing anxiety agoraphobics typically experience when stepping outside their cloistered comfort zones. After Simon, Su, and Archana...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2009