Filmakers - Psychology

Psychology

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133 film(s) found

	(A)Sexual This ground-breaking film introduces us to men and women who have never experienced sexual attraction, and the challenges they face living in a sex obsessed society. more »
	ADHD: Out of Control Kids This remarkable film shows in a short space of time many examples of children from pre-school age to high school, and even adults, who suffer from ADHD. more »
	Aging Out Navigating the transition from adolescence to adulthood is challenging for even the most mature and privileged youth. For three young people in New York and Los Angeles, making the transition to independent living is considerably more difficult as they “age out” of the foster care system and find themselves suddenly on their own for the first time. more »
	Angels Don't Have Headlights A psychiatrist produced this sensitive film on bereavement, showing four children aged three to eleven, who lost a family member through death. more »
	Anger: The Emotional Brain This program examines anger, from its primordial roots in self-defense to its expression in modern violence. Part of a four-part series, Passion & Fury: The Emotional Brain. more »
	Aphasia: Struggling for Understanding This film is about two people faced with the daunting task of learning to speak again. As the wife of one of them says, "...a person without language is a non-person." more »
	Autism: A Strange, Silent World This sensitive film takes a comprehensive view of autism by focusing on three children of different ages, with different behavioral patterns. more »
	Back to Nadia Living under Taliban rule in Afghanistan, Nadia spent eleven years masquerading as a boy in order to support her family. Years later, she reclaims her identity as a woman. more »
	The Ball This charming film takes us into the world of students with special needs as they prepare for their school’s debutante ball. more »
	Before They Fall off the Cliff This documentary captures the story of a family devastated by one member’s paranoid schizophrenia, and their ultimate struggle to find the courage to forgive and to enlighten others about mental illness. more »
	Behind the Curtain This informative documentary explores the possible origins of autism and the therapies developed for treatment. A broad spectrum of professionals share their views. more »
	Beyond the Borderline This is a follow-up to Borderline Syndrome, showing how, six years later, the women have made strides in coping with their illness and living independentl more »
	Blind Spot Vanessa enjoyed a loving, secure family life until the age of twelve when her sixteen -year-old sister began having schizophrenic episodes. From that moment on, life in the family was fraught with concern and anxiety for the mysterious, unpredictable and frightening behavior of her adored sibling. more »
	Borderline Syndrome: A Personality Disorder of Our Time Gives a clear presentation of a relatively new diagnosis. Experts Dr. James Masterson, John Gunderson and Marilyn Gewacke talk about diagnosis and treatment more »
	Born to Be Good? Psychologists are now using new techniques to decipher what babies think and conducting research to determine at what age morality develops. more »
	The Boy Who Draws Buildings A portrait of autistic artist Stephen Wiltshire who has an uncanny ability to draw buildings from memory. Oliver Sacks wrote about him. more »
	Boys Alone more »
	Boys and Men Healing from Child Sexual Abuse This powerful documentary reveals the epidemic of sexual abuse of boys and its impact on both the individuals and their families. It highlights the importance of male survivors being healed and speaking out to end sexual abuse. more »
	Brain Gain Brain Gain transports viewers to an inner city high school in Saskatchewan where disciplinary and learning problems are rampant among students before one teacher instills motivation and discipline by adding an exercise program. more »
	The Brain That Changes Itself Recent research into the human brain is radically changing how we look at the potential for neurological recovery. Psychiatrist and author Dr. Norman Doidge meets pioneering scientists who are proving that our brains can be "rewired" so that stroke victims and other brain-injured patients can regain their lost skills. more »
	Brainstorm Depression is the hidden epidemic of our industrial society. Often it is unrecognized or denied. This film gives an overview of the disorder and includes an interview with William Styron. more »
	Breaking the Cycle This film looks at families struggling with preschoolers who have serious behavioral problems. It demonstrates how early intervention may help. more »
	Captive Minds: Hypnosis and Beyond How do cults hold on to their disciples? This film explains how long-term conditioning takes place. more »
	The Child That You Do Have Shows a pioneering treatment which is based on the autistic child’s hypersensitivity to sound. The treatment combines auditory therapy and counseling. more »
	Childhood's End This documentary portrait of three suicidal youngsters will help counselors, parents and young people begin a constructive dialogue. more »
	The City and the Self The compelling film that essentially established the field of urban psychology. more »
	Conformity and Independence This film presents classic research and asks questions about why people conform, obey, and dissent in various social situations. more »
	Couples Arguing Arguments between couples are an important aspect of interpersonal relationships. The video shows couples arguing over money, sex, alcohol and children. more »
	A Deathly Silence This powerful film examines the intellectual attraction of suicide to a vulnerable teen and the impact on his family and community. more »
	Deception: Munchausen's Disorder People afflicted with this disorder invent illnesses in order to be admitted to a hospital. Psychiatrists don’t yet understand it, but it diverts valuable health resources away from those who really need them. more »
	Depression: Beating the Blues This is a clear, concise and well-presented overview of the physical psychological and social aspects of depression. more »
	Despair This is the first full-length documentary about depression to consider the pervasive mood disorder from multi-ethnic viewpoints. more »
	A Diagnosed Boy A Diagnosed Boy chronicles the story of Lars as he seeks treatment for his son Silas, who has been diagnosed with a variety of developmental disorders. After learning about the theories of Israeli professor Reuven Feuerstein, who believes one should challenge children's mental skills to help them overcome their disabilities, Lars travels to Jerusalem to learn more. more »
	Divorce Sharia Style This documentary takes us inside the workings of Sharia law in a Western society, especially as it affects women seeking divorce. more »
	Electric Mind This cutting-edge documentary ushers viewers through the hospitals, research centers, and clinics where groundbreaking research is being done on the electricity of brain function as a treatment for depression, bipolar disorder, epilepsy, and dystonia. more »
	The Enigma of Sleep This fascinating documentary brings viewers to laboratories in Italy, France, Israel,and Switzerland where researchers are trying to untangle the mysterious working of the brain in order to help those who suffer from these disorders. more »
	Face Value This documentary on facial kinetics begins with a brief history of the field and then reports on current research. more »
	Facing Forward A charismatic but troubled youth strives for success at a strict new inner city charter school. His school has high expectations, but can it overcome the negativity of the community? more »
	The Familiar Face Of Love This CBC program is an engaging study of how we chose our mates and for what reason. Dr. John Money discusses the "love map", or blueprint of the ideal relationship we carry within us. more »
	The Family of Chimps This film documents the studies of Dr. Frans de Waal, the internationally known ethologist who based his spectacular book "Chimpanzee Politics" on his unique study at the Arnhem Zoo in Holland. more »
	Fear: The Emotional Brain Fear is the most primal and powerful emotion, from its evolutionary origins in the involuntary fight-or-flight survival instinct, to its essential function as a learning tool today. Part of a four-part series, Passion & Fury: The Emotional Brain. more »
	First Person Shooter Violent interactive video games make up a 20 billion dollar industry. These games may have an addictive quality, especially to teenage boys, whose lives often become dominated by them. What effect does brutality in virtual reality have on the minds and psyches of the young? more »
	The Foolish Wise Ones Fascinating portraits of three gifted autistic individuals: one who is gifted musically; one who is a mathematical genius; and one who is an artist. more »
	Happiness: The Emotional Brain Drawing a distinction between the lasting state of happiness and the pursuit of instant pleasure, the program explores the evolutionary role of happiness, and asks what happens in the brain, and possibly in the genes, that makes some people happy and others sad. Part of the four-part series, Passion & Fury: The Emotional Brain. more »
	The Healing Years This important documentary investigates the effect of incest on three women as it illuminates their journey from pain and despair to recovery to finally working to end the cycle of incest. more »
	Hidden Battles How does killing change the person who pulls the trigger? Hidden Battles is a dramatic exploration of the psychological impact of war on five soldiers. more »
	His & Hers Told through the words of 76 unique narrators, this delicate film delivers an intimate portrait of the cycle of a woman’s life. more »
	Human Aggression Startling occurrences of aggression in youth gangs are depicted and related to key scientific findings. more »
	I Talk to Animals: A Portrait of Samantha Khury Samantha Khury has made a profession of being an animal therapist. She seems to communicate with race horses, goats, dogs and cats whose owners want to discover what is troubling their animals. more »
	In Body and Soul This groundbreaking film profiles an experimental program recently begun in Switzerland: "sex workers" of both sexes provide sex for a fee to people who are physically or mentally challenged. more »
	In My Parents’ Basement This film explores the stories of three adult children who have returned to live with their parents as they grapple with current struggles, future dreams, and past failures. more »
	In Search of Sleep The insomniac-filmmaker, hasn’t slept like a baby since he was one. He has spent thousands of nights thinking about sleep when he should be sleeping. He decides to get help, meeting with the world’s top sleep doctors and scientists. more »
	Incest: The Family Secret In this shockingly frank program we hear adult women tell of the childhood experiences that so traumatized their later years. Included is the testimony of a formerly abusive father who underwent psychiatric treatment. ( more »
	Intuition This fascinating program investigates the historical, cultural and modern scientific approach to confirming the existence of our pre-cognitive abilities. Scientific researchers are pushing the science of parapsychology forward and are proving that a correlation exists between physical science and parapsychology. more »
	Invitation to Social Psychology Three questions are asked in this film, providing an overview of social psychology: What is its subject matter? What are its methods of investigation? What are some of its findings? more »
	Is Love Enough? Is Love Enough? provides a remarkable window on an unexplored phenomenon in a balanced fashion: can a mentally disabled person be a good parent? more »
	It's a Different World A portrait of a family with three autistic children who have different degrees of the disorder. One with Aspergers is most verbal in defining his limitations. more »
	Jackson Sandwich Jackson was diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorder at age 4. Now at age 9, thanks to early intervention, he is an accomplished second-grader, charming and gregarious. more »
	John's Not Mad: Tourette Syndrome This is a portrait of an adolescent who suffers from a severe case of Tourette Syndrome. Dr. Oliver Sacks comments on the case. more »
	Just Mom and Me: Single Motherhood A realistic portrait of the financial and emotional challenges faced by single mothers heading households. more »
	The Key To the World The turmoil dyslexia can impose on a family is captured in this documentary of a mother’s eighteen -year struggle with the education system in an effort to get her son a good education. more »
	Kids With Cameras This engaging film follows an intensive film camp for children eleven to nineteen who have autism spectrum disorders, and shows how developing their creative abilities significantly improves their social interaction skills. more »
	Last Rights Who decides how life ends? The patient? The family? The physician? The health care system? Last Rights is a compelling, deeply personal exploration of four families and their terminally-ill loved ones as they begin to contemplate death. more »
	Left Brain, Right Brain Dr. Norman Geschwind of the Harvard Medical School introduces this fascinating film on hemispheric brain research. more »
	Lens & Pens This inspiring film tells the story of a poetry, painting, and photography workshop and its profound impact on three people deemed by the criminal justice system to be "not guilty by reason of insanity." more »
	Leslie: A Portrait of Schizophrenia A portrait of a young black man suffering from paranoid schizophrenia. For years in and out of mental institutions, he shares with us his startling past. more »
	Lick Salt The film is a vivid character study of a strong minded lady in her declining years, confused between reality and delusions. more »
	Lila: Eight to Thirteen The film follows one strong, open, lively girl as she navigates the passage from preadolescence to adolescence. We follow Lila from a tree-climbing eight-year-old who likes to compete with boys, through the complexities of a changing body and a new set of rules for behavior. more »
	Living the Roller-Coaster Living the Roller-Coaster explores the experiences of two young women attending Stanford University who were diagnosed with Bipolar Disorder more »
	Living with Chimpanzees: Portrait of a Family The story of an unusual nuclear family: Roberta, Phil, and their two adopted chimpanzees. It shows the joys and challenges of life with our closest primate relatives. more »
	Lost and Sound Lost and Sound is a moving and beautiful film that weaves its way through a startling world of sound and silence via the ears and brains of three extraordinary people trying to discover music after losing their hearing. more »
	Lost Boys: Growing Up Without a Father This sensitive film portrays the emotional difficulties men have who have grown up without a father. more »
	Love: The Emotional Brain This program examines the complexity of the emotion we call love, from the burning desire that can strike suddenly, to the giddy euphoria of falling in love. Part of the four-part series, Passion & Fury: The Emotional Brain. more »
	Make Me Normal: Autistic Teenagers Speak Out This portrait of autistic teenagers at a state school in England captures their frustration at not being 'normal'. more »
	Manic A dramatized case study of manic depression more »
	Match Made This documentary, filmed in Ho Chi Minh City, chronicles the search of an awkward 38-year-old Singaporean for a young, beautiful Vietnamese bride, with the help of a marriage broker. more »
	Me, My Brain and I Neuroscientists such as Donald Stuss are now learning about the once-misunderstood frontal lobes of the brain from studying brain-injury patients in depth. more »
	Memory: The Past Imperfect This Nature of Things documentary explores many aspects of memory, such as long and short term memory, hypnosis and amnesia. more »
	Men Who Molest: Children Who Survive This film explores the lives of four child molesters. Three are in treatment at the nation's largest community-based facility in Seattle; we witness dramatic group therapy sessions and learn how devastating this crime is to the child and the family. more »
	Milton H. Erickson, M.D. The life and work of the man who pioneered in the field of medical hypnosis and therapy. more »
	Mom's Home When aging mothers move in with their grown daughters, the role reversals trigger social conflict, emotional adjustments, and unexpected difficulties. more »
	Monks in the Laboratory Western researchers are turning to Eastern spiritual practitioners for illumination on the workings of the mind. They want to learn how meditation affects attention and consciousness, and how it controls the emotions. more »
	Mr. Nobody This film from the National Film Board of Canada's series "The Elderly at Risk" deals with the difficult issue of community intervention when a reclusive elder neglects himself to the point of offending his neighbors. more »
	Music and Early Childhood This film speaks with experts who make a strong case for beginning music education at a very early age because of its precursor to language skills. more »
	My First Time A spirited group of people of varied ages and backgrounds recall the first time they made love. Some are funny, some sad – all are interesting! more »
	My Mother, My Abuser The sexual abuse of children committed by women, most often mothers, is a rarely documented subject. In this film, six victims of maternal incest powerfully convey their nightmarish child hoods. more »
	The Mystery of Sleep This film explores the strange and relatively unknown world of sleep—a state in which we spend approximately one third of our lives. It shows how the discovery of REM in the early 1950s brought about a much broader understanding of the mechanism of sleep. more »
	Newborn: With Dr. Berry Brazelton With Drs. Berry Brazelton, Lewis Lipsett and Louis Sanders, this film documents the extraordinary capabilities of the newborn baby. more »
	Nonverbal Communication Milgram examines scientific findings on communication through gesture, body posture, intonation, eye contact, and facial expression. more »
	Nowhere You Are A portrait of a high functioning autistic young woman will sensitize viewers to the disorder. more »
	o.com: Cybersex Addiction This startling documentary reveals how the internet contributes to alienation, especially in the area of human sexuality. In North America alone, more than 8 million people pursue sex online at least 11 hours a week. The internet has actually removed touch and human contact from sex more »
	Obedience The classic documentary that reveals the extraordinary actions average people will take to follow orders. more »
	Of Two Minds Of Two Minds is an award-winning documentary that explores the extraordinary lives, struggles, and successes of three individuals living with bipolar disorder. more »
	One of Five: Families Coping with Mental Disorders Here are inspiring portraits of five loving families, each caring for an emotionally handicapped, or alcohol-addicted member, with often rewarding results. more »
	Out of My Mind An intimate portrait of twenty-three-year-old John Cadigan, the filmmaker’s brother who became seriously mentally ill while he as an art student at college. more »
	Out of the Mouths Of Babes Peter and Jill de Villiers of Harvard University, researchers in language acquisition, provide a clear and informative description of the child’s linguistic development. more »
	Passion and Fury: The Emotional Brain Series This four-part series looks at the primal emotions that are generated in the brain and examines how nature and nurture combine to make humans feel and react the way they do. Featured emotions include Anger, Fear, Love, and Happiness. more »
	Patently Offensive: Porn Under Siege This masterful documentary examines pornography in its social and historical context. It explores whether freedom of expression and the preservation of values which define a civilized society are irreconcilable.Well-known law professors, civil rights advocates and feminists give their views. more »
	Pornography: The Double Message This documentary explores the effects of hard core pornography in our society. Does it indeed contribute to violence and de-sensitization? more »
	Quiet Rage An exploration of Philip Zimbardo's infamous Stanford Prison Experiment which was designed to test the virtues of "good" and "evil". more »
	Reaching the Autistic Mind: An Educational Challenge This film travels the world of autistic families at the Eden II School, in Staten Island, New York. more »
	Rupture: Living with My Broken Brain Former Bond girl Maryam d'Abo describes her experience of suffering a brain hemorrhage and partners with her husband to create a film about the life of survivors. more »
	A School for Robin Four year old Robin, who has autism, has been mainstreamed into a normal school. This film follows his progress, as well as the satisfaction his teachers take in his achievement. more »
	Secret Fears: Phobias A compassionate look at a wide variety of people who suffer from phobias and anxiety disorders, and the different forms of therapy used to help them. more »
	Shattered Dreams The emotional story of a family forced to deal with schizophrenia not once, but twice. Two brothers were afflicted with the disease. The third made this film. more »
	Shattered Lives: A Study of Autism A 'life skill center' where parents and professionals struggle to communicate wit and elicit response, from autistic people. more »
	Sigmund Freud: Narrated by Eli Wallach, this film shows us the birthplace of psychoanalysis with its book-lined study and collection of antiquities. Photographed shortly before Freud fled the Nazis. more »
	Sleep and Its Secrets Gives a clear explanation of what happens to us during the unconscious hours of sleep, and how our sleep patterns affect productiveness. more »
	Slender Existence This multi-festival film documents the filmmaker's ten-year struggle with anorexia nervosa. Antidepressants and therapy helped her return to normalcy, and now she wants others to know about this disorder. more »
	Soul & Science: The Power of the Mind Though it’s generally accepted that the human mind affects the body, this film gives dramatic examples, supported by scientific data, of people who recovered from debilitating physical and mental illnesses, including depression and post traumatic stress syndrome, without the aid of medication. more »
	The Stanley Milgram Films - The Complete Set This set includes all six of Milgram's videos and provides the important visual imagery essential for understanding the foundations of social psychology. more »
	A Stranger in Our Home This gripping documentary exposes the alarming rise of sexual predators on the Internet. more »
	Strike Dice! This is the story of a daughter whose father left the family when she was young to pursue his gambling addiction in Las Vegas. It follows the daughter's struggle to get her father off the streets and back into society. more »
	Sunny Intervals and Showers Dr. Allan Levi is suspended from work and in trouble at home following behavioral episodes caused by his bipolar disorder. Filmed in the year after Allan's diagnosis, the film is an intimate and ironic portrait of a marriage and a family in crisis. more »
	Taken In: The Lives of America's Foster Children Almost half a million children in the United States are in foster care. They were taken from their parents who were deemed unfit to care for them. This is a sensitive exploration of the long term emotional and psychological costs of this policy. more »
	Through Madness Three people who suffer from psychotic disorders describe it from the inside out. more »
	To Be or Not To Be At the beginning of "To Be or Not To Be," two mothers wonder if there is a place in the world for their two sons. Isaac Larsen and Willie Smith have Down syndrome. Eventually the two are admitted to a 'regular' elementary school program and the film then follows Isaac and Willie through their last year before sixth grade graduation. more »
	Today's Man This film offers a portrait of the filmmaker's brother Nicky, a delightful twenty-one-year-old with Asperger's syndrome, as his family grooms him for independence. more »
	Total Baby This is a wry look at the way parents, scientists, and the baby industry try to give young ones a competitive edge. more »
	Toys This film looks at the dramatic change in the kinds of toys available to children. Several noted psychologists, including Dr. Jerome Kagan, offer their views on the effect of toys on children’s behavior. more »
	Trouble With Reading Why do so many children have such a hard time learning to read? What is at stake for them? Who can help them? This revealing documentary makes the important connection between early trouble with reading and serious behavioral problems in the classroom. more »
	Unbreakable Minds A poignant, humorous and unforgettable portrayal of three men struggling with schizophrenia. We learn how they and their families cope with the vagaries of the illness. more »
	The Unquiet Death of Eli Creekmore Told through moving accounts by family members, teachers, and doctors, this powerful documentary documents the brutal child abuse case of Eli Creekmore, a boy who was beaten to death by his father after a startling failing of the state's child protective laws. more »
	Untangling the Mind: The Legacy of Dr. Heinz Lehmann Documents the work of the pioneering psychiatrist whose work helped to humanize the care of mental patients. more »
	Veronica’s Story This innovative work is based on an actual letter by a teenager reaching out to understand a childhood of sexual abuse. more »
	What Killed Kevin? One summer morning Kevin Morrissey dialed 911 to report a shooting and then turned his gun on himself. Discord between Kevin and his boss was later uncovered. Was the suicide a result of workplace bullying? more »
	When the Bough Breaks Using hidden cameras, this film captures the interaction of three children with serious behavioral problems, and their parents. It shows how a whole family can be in turmoil if there is no intervention. more »
	When the Bough Breaks—Children of Women in Prison A sensitive study of the effect on children when their mothers are incarcerated. more »
	Where Did I Put My Memory? As life expectancy increases and we continue to amass more information, memory loss is becoming a growing epidemic. This film explores the world of recall and methods for improving memory. more »
	Who Cares for The Children? This award-winner addresses the concerns of working parents, the needs of both children and day-care providers, and the social risks of day-care shortage. more »
	Why Can’t We Be A Family Again? Shot over a three year period, this emotionally wrenching story reveals the bond that develops between two brothers who long to be reunited with their cocaine-addicted mother, and their grandmother’s struggle to keep the family together. When a family court threatens to terminate the mother’s parental rights after a failed rehabilitation attempt, the boys impress the judge with their strong desire to keep the family intact. more »
	Why Do We Marry? This heartwarming film explores why people of a variety of ages, cultures, and gender orientation, still want to marry in an era when it is socially acceptable for couples to live together, forgoing wedding vows. more »
	You Must Have Been A Bilingual Baby From the "Nature of Things" series, this film investigates how babies become bilingual, how school children fare in language immersion classes, and how adults cope with learning foreign languages. more »