Video Description List

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Video Description List

Discovering Psychology Series:
Psychopathology
Annenberg/CPB    2001
Video # 37
Time:  30 minutes
Description:  The major types of mental illness are presented. Schizophrenia, phobias, and affective disorders are described, along with the major factors that affect them — both biological and psychological. With Dr. Irving Gottesman of the University of Virginia and Dr. E. Fuller Torrey of the National Institute of Mental Health. Updated.

The Mind Hidden and Divided
Annenberg/CPB     1989
Video # 33
Time:  30 minutes.
Description:  Case studies of multiple personality and split-brain patients and examples of hypnosis demonstrate the subconscious.

Psychopathology
Annenberg/CPB     1989
Video # 37A
Time: 30 minutes
Description:  Schizophrenia, phobias, and affective disorders are defined and explored.

Teaching Modules: Psychological Disorders and Therapy
Annenberg/CPB     1989
Video # 26L
Time:  22:52 minutes
Description:  Presents a variety of therapies, from behavioral to cognitive to humanistic. Shows footage of people with schizophrenia, depression, and other disorders.

The World of Abnormal Psychology Series:
Looking at Abnormal Behavior
Annenberg/CPB 1992
Video # 100
Time:  One hour
Description:  The program visits the Jackson Memorial Hospital Crisis Center in Miami, where suicidal, depressed, and schizophrenic patients meet with psychologists, psychiatrists, and social workers to assess the nature and seriousness of their problems. It also introduces the various theories used to explain and treat abnormal behavior.

The Nature of Stress
Annenberg/CPB 1992
Video # 100
Time:  One hour
Description: We see that stress affects many people from the overworked and out-of-work, to survivors of suicide and homicide, to Vietnam War veterans who continually re-experience the stress of the battlefield. The program explores the long-term effects of stress and what is known about how to reduce them.

The Anxiety Disorders
Annenberg/CPB 1992
Video # 101
Time:  One hour
 Description: Even in the best of times, we all experience some anxiety. But millions of Americans suffer from major anxiety disorders. This program examines two of the most common: panic with agoraphobia and generalized anxiety disorder and shows how psychologists are making headway in treating them.

Personality Disorders
Annenberg/CPB 1992
Video # 102
Time:  One hour
Description:  One in ten Americans has a personality disorder. Some are mildly annoying; others are exceedingly dangerous. Viewers will meet individuals with narcissistic, anti-social, borderline, and obsessive-compulsive personality disorders, including a murderer and a group of women who mutilate themselves, and will learn about the challenges involved in both diagnosis and treatment.

Substance Abuse Disorders
Annenberg/CPB 1992
Video # 102
Time:  One hour
Description: Millions of Americans abuse alcohol, cigarettes, and cocaine. Health professionals know a great deal about these dangerous and costly disorders, including how to treat them. This program examines how the concept of treatment matching is used to help individuals overcome a variety of addictions.

Sexual Disorders
Annenberg/CPB 1992
Video # 103
Time:  One hour
Description: A man exhibits himself in public. A woman feels guilty about not desiring sex. An otherwise happy couple finds themselves at odds over sex. These people share their private problems and demonstrate how the assessment and treatment of sexual disorders has advanced in the past 25 years.

Mood Disorders
Annenberg/CPB 1992
Video # 103
Time:  One hour
Description: Depression is one of the most common psychological problems. In this program, psychologists and biologists look at the causes and treatment of both depression and bipolar disorder and show the progress that has been made in helping people return to productive and satisfying lives.

The Schizophrenia's
Annenberg/CPB     1992
Video # 104
Time:  One hour
Description:  In emotionally moving interviews, this program visits people who suffer from the hallucinations, paranoia, and psychological disarray of these disabling illnesses. In addition to examining symptoms and treatments, the program helps debunk some of the myths associated with the disorder and shows its human side and the strength of those who fight to overcome it.

Organic Mental Disorders
Annenberg/CPB     1992
Video # 104
Time:  One hour
Description:  A teenager must re-learn all the basic skills following a head injury. After years of alcohol abuse, a man loses his short-term memory. A woman sees her husband struggle against the ravages of Alzheimer's disease. Science and technology's role in treating these debilitating disorders is also examined in this program.

Behavior Disorders of Childhood
Annenberg/CPB     1992
Video # 105
Time:  One hour
Description: Almost all parents worry whether or not their child's behavior is normal. This program visits families of youngsters with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, conduct disorder, separation anxiety disorder, and autism. In addition, experts in child development and psychology discuss how to differentiate abnormal behavior from developmental stages.

The Brain Series:
Rhythms and Drives
Annenberg/CPB    1984
Video # 47
Time:  60 minutes
Description:  The "primitive" brain and its effects on sex, sleep, aggression, depression and euphoria are explored.

Stress and Emotion
Annenberg/CPB     1984
Video # 48
Time: 60 minutes
Description:  The stories of Phineas Gage and an air traffic controller frame this episode about pain, anxiety and behavior.
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Teaching Modules:  The Mind
Annenberg/CPB    1999
Video # 129
Description: (31) Mood Disorders: Mania and Depression.  Presents vivid examples of the mood fluctuations of patients who suffer from periodic affective episodes. (32) Mood Disorders: Hereditary Factors.  Illustrates the findings of a 10-year study that involved 12,000 volunteers in an Amish community and represents careful analysis of genetic factors related to manic-depressive disorders.

Inside Psych Series
Allyn & Bacon
Video # 116
Time:  15 minutes
Description:  Part 3:  Symptoms and explanations of schizophrenia.

Case studies in Abnormal Psychology
Harper Collins    Date Unknown
Video # 107
Time:  81 minutes
Description:   A series of interviews with patients with various mental illnesses.

Diagnostic Interviews:  Interview with an Addict
John Wiley & Sons    1987
Video # 108
Time:  19 minutes

Diagnostic Interviews:  Interview with an Obsessive-Compulsive
John Wiley & Sons    1987
Video # 108
Time:  26 minutes

Diagnostic Interviews:  Interview with a Schizophrenic
John Wiley & Sons    1987
Video # 109
Time:  33 minutes

Diagnostic Interviews:  Interview with a Mother and Teacher of a Hyperactive Child
John Wiley & Sons    1987
Video # 109
Time:  19 minutes

Diagnostic Interviews:  Interview with a Depressive
John Wiley & Sons    1987
Video # 110
Time:  25 minutes

Diagnostic Interviews:  Interview with a Manic
John Wiley & Sons    1987
Video # 110
Time:  29 minutes

Autism: Breaking Through
Films for the Humanities & Sciences    1991
Video # 111
Time:  26 minutes
Description:  This program examines the causes and symptoms of autism and the various treatment options available.

Meanings of Madness:  Institution of Insanity
British Broadcast Company  1988
Video # 25
Time:  23 minutes
Description:  Describes the history of institutionalization and treatment of mentally ill in England with commentary by Andrew Scull.  Includes many pictures and drawings of institutions.

Meanings of Madness:  Rights and Rituals
British Broadcast Company  1988
Video # 10
Time:  23 minutes
Description:  Examines history of rules regarding hospitalization and freedom of the mentally ill.

Madness
Annenberg/CPB    1984
Video # 51
Time:  60 minutes.
Description:  Deals exclusively with schizophrenics, who suffer from thought disorders, hallucinations and delusions and their families.

Childhood Physical Abuse
Films for the Humanities & Sciences    1990
Video # 119
Time:  26 minutes
Description:  This program covers the range of problems in the area of physical abuse of children, with professional in various aspects of the problem who share their expertise.

Childhood Sexual Abuse
Films for the Humanities & Sciences    1990
Video # 118
Time:  26 minutes
Description:  This program looks at the ways in which adult women learn to work out the problems caused by their sexually abusive fathers and how they seek to protect their own children from a recurrence of the pattern.  Psychiatrists, social workers, and law enforcement officials look at various aspects of this problem.

Deadline
The Media Guild  1985
Video # 21
Time:  approximately 28 minutes
Description:  A dramatization of the social and educational pressures of a suicidal high school student and its prevention by other students.

Urgent Messages
The Media Guild  Unknown Date
Video # 14
Time: approximately 13 minutes
Description:  A discussion on the prevention of suicide and the signs and symptoms of a suicidal person.

Depression and the Elderly
Terra Nova Films  Fairview Audio and Visuals 1990
Video # 13
Time: approximately 30 minutes
Description:  An examination of the prevalence, diagnosis and treatment of depression in the elderly.  There is also a study guide to go with the video.

Web Sites

C.H.A.D.D. Attention Deficit Disorder Information

Lecture Notes for a Course in Abnormal Psychology

National Institute of Mental Health

Psychology Information Online (Donald Franklin)