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Table of Contents
Abnormal Psychology: Past and Present
1.
BENJAMIN RUSH’S “RESTRAINT CHAIR”
2.
CARL JUNG TALKS ABOUT FREUD, LIFE, AND THE
COLLECTIVE UNCONSCIOUS
3.
MEDICAL PROCEDURES USED IN MENTAL HOSPITALS
IN THE FIRST HALF OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY
4.
LOCKING AWAY THE “FEEBLEMINDED”: A
SHAMEFUL HISTORY
Research in Abnormal Psychology
5.
ETHICS IN HUMAN RESEARCH: VIOLATING
ONE’S PRIVACY?
6.
DEATH OF A SUBJECT: THE ETHICS OF
MENTAL HEALTH RESEARCH
7.
A LABORATORY STUDY: LINKING PLACEBO EFFECTS
TO ENDORPHINS
8.
STUDYING IDENTICAL TWINS: NATURE VERSUS NURTURE
Models of Abnormality
9.
THE UNCONSCIOUS: MODERN VIEWS
10.
BANDURA’S BOBO DOLL EXPERIMENT: MODELING OF
AGGRESSION
11.
DR. AARON BECK UNCOVERS THE COGNITIONS OF A
DEPRESSED CLIENT
12.
JOHN AND JULIE GOTTMAN EXAMINE MARITAL AND
FAMILY STRESS
13.
DO SOCIAL FORCES CAUSE ANTISOCIAL BEHAVIOR?
REPLICATING THE MILGRAM STUDY
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14.
CITY OF GHEEL: COMMUNITY MENTAL HEALTH AT ITS
BEST
Clinical Assessment, Diagnosis, and Treatment
15.
CLINICIANS TRY TO IDENTIFY NORMALCY
16.
GENETIC TESTING: DO PEOPLE NEED TO KNOW?
17.
ASSESSMENT OF PSYCHOPATHY
18.
BRAIN FINGERPRINTING: MEMORY, RECOGNITION, AND
LIE DETECTION
19.
AVATARS ONLINE: A NEW DIRECTION IN
PSYCHOTHERAPY?
Anxiety Disorders
20.
WATSON’S FAMOUS STUDY: LITTLE ALBERT
21.
SPECIFIC PHOBIAS, PANIC DISORDER, AND SOCIAL
ANXIETY DISORDER: 3 CASES
22.
AGORAPHOBIA
23.
SOCIAL ANXIETY DISORDER AND COGNITIVEBEHAVIORAL THERAPY: A CASE STUDY
24.
OVERCOMING A DOG PHOBIA
25.
EXPOSURE TREATMENT FOR AN ELEVATOR PHOBIA
Obsessive-Compulsive and Related Disorders
26.
OBSESSIVE-COMPULSIVE DISORDER: A YOUNG
MOTHER’S STRUGGLE
27.
TREATMENT OF OCD: EXPOSURE AND RESPONSE
PREVENTION
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28.
BODY DYSMORPHIC DISORDER: BEYOND PERFECTION
29.
HOARDING: A LIFE OF CLUTTER
30.
TRICHOTILLOMANIA: PULLING OUT ONE’S HAIR
Trauma- and Stressor-Related Disorders
31.
FIGHT OR FLIGHT: MEASURING STRESS WHILE
RUNNING WITH THE BULLS
32.
THE STRESS-CORTISOL CONNECTION: NOT FOR ADULTS
ONLY
33.
STRESS, SLEEP DEPRIVATION, AND AGGRESSION
34.
POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER: A COMBAT
VETERAN
35.
FEAR, PTSD, AND THE BRAIN
36.
INHERITING PTSD: THE GHOST IN YOUR GENES
Dissociative Disorders
37.
DISSOCIATIVE AMNESIA VERSUS ORGANIC AMNESIA
38.
IS DISSOCIATIVE IDENTITY DISORDER A REAL
DISORDER?
39.
THREE FACES OF EVE: THE REAL PERSON
40.
CREATING FALSE MEMORIES: A LABORATORY STUDY
Disorders Featuring Somatic Symptoms
41.
HYPOCHONDRIASIS BECOMES ILLNESS ANXIETY
DISORDER
42.
HOW DOES ANXIETY AFFECT PAIN?
43.
COPING WITH PAIN
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44.
HYPNOSIS: MEDICAL AND PSYCHOLOGICAL
APPLICATIONS
45.
STRESS AND THE IMMUNE SYSTEM: CARETAKERS AT
RISK
46.
FIGHTING CANCER: MOBILIZING THE IMMUNE
SYSTEM
Sleep-Wake Disorders
47.
SLEEP AND SLEEPLESSNESS: THE CURRENT SCENE
48.
CHRONIC NIGHTMARES
Disorders of Mood: Depressive and Bipolar Disorders
49.
THE SEARCH FOR HAPPINESS
50.
PARENTAL ATTACHMENT IN INFANCY: HARRY HARLOW
AND THE "WIRE MOTHER"
51.
PERSISTENT DEPRESSIVE DISORDER: A CASE STUDY
52.
POSTPARTUM DEPRESSION
53.
DISRUPTIVE MOOD DYSREGULATION DISORDER (CHILD
BIPOLAR DISORDER)
Treatments for Disorders of Mood
54.
DR. AARON BECK CONDUCTS COGNITIVE THERAPY FOR
DEPRESSION
55.
THE DEVELOPMENT AND USE OF SSRIs
56.
QUESTIONING THE EFFECTIVENESS OF
ANTIDEPRESSANT DRUGS
57.
ELECTROCONVULSIVE THERAPY
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58.
BRAIN AREA 25, DEPRESSION, AND DEEP BRAIN
STIMULATION
59.
LAUGHTER CLUBS
60.
SEASONAL AFFECTIVE DISORDER AND LIGHT THERAPY
Suicide
61.
SUICIDE: CASE OF THE “3-STAR” CHEF
62.
SUICIDE BY TEENS AND YOUNG ADULTS
63.
ANTIDEPRESSANTS, SUICIDE, AND THE “BLACK BOX”
DECISION
64.
SUICIDE AND THE PEOPLE LEFT BEHIND: SURVIVORS’
GUILT AND ANGER
65.
TERMINAL ILLNESS AND SUICIDE
Eating Disorders
66.
THE FACE OF ANOREXIA: MODEL ISABELLE CARO
67.
OVERCOMING ANOREXIA NERVOSA
68.
WOMAN WITH BULIMIA NERVOSA
69.
MAN WITH BULIMIA NERVOSA
70.
PRO-ANOREXIA WEBSITES
71.
EATING AND WEIGHT GAIN: A ROLE FOR FIDGETING
Substance-Related Disorders
72.
COLLEGE BINGE DRINKING
73.
IN SEARCH OF ALCOHOLISM GENES
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74.
COCAINE USE DISORDER AND TREATMENT: SINKING
AND RECOVERING
75.
METHAMPHETAMINE: A POWERFUL DEPENDENCE
76.
CHEMICALLY-INDUCED HALLUCINATIONS: STUDIES OF
ANESTHETIC DRUGS
77.
MISUSE OF RITALIN AND OTHER STIMULANT DRUGS
78.
ADDICTION TO PAINKILLERS
79.
ADDICTION TO CANNABIS
80.
CANNABIS AND THE BRAIN
81.
IS CANNABIS AN ENTRY DRUG?
82.
THE MEDICAL USE OF MARIJUANA
Behavioral Addictions
83.
POOR SELF-CONTROL AND THE BRAIN: THE RESEARCH
OF NORA VOLKOW
84.
GAMBLING DISORDER AND THE BRAIN’S PLEASURE
CENTER
85.
GAMBLING DISORDER AND SLOT MACHINES:
BIOLOGICAL OR PSYCHOLOGICAL?
86.
INTERNET ADDICTION: A CROSS-CULTURAL
PHENOMENON
87.
ADDICTVE GAME PLAYING
88.
SEX ADDICTION: FACT OR FICTION?
Sexual Disorders
89.
ATTITUDES TOWARD CASUAL SEX: DO MEN AND
WOMEN DIFFER?
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90.
THE DEVELOPMENT, USE, AND MISUSE OF VIAGRA
Gender Dysphoria
91.
THE BOY WHO WAS TURNED INTO A GIRL
92.
RENEE RICHARDS: A LONG JOURNEY
Schizophrenia and Other Psychotic Disorders
93.
WOMAN WITH HALLUCINATIONS
94.
YOUNG MAN WITH SCHIZOPHRENIA
95.
CAN CANNABIS USE TRIGGER SCHIZOPHRENIA?
96.
POSTPARTUM PSYCHOSIS: WHY DID ANDREA YATES
KILL HER FIVE CHILDREN?
Treatments for Schizophrenia and Other Severe Mental
Disorders
97.
PATIENTS BEFORE AND AFTER PREFRONTAL
LOBOTOMY, 1944
98.
OVERCOMING SCHIZOPHRENIA: JOHN NASH’S
BEAUTIFUL MIND
99.
SEVERE MENTAL DISORDERS AND DRUG ABUSE: THE
SO-CALLED “WILD MAN OF WEST 96TH STREET”
Personality Disorders
100.
PERSONALITY AND THE BRAIN
101.
DO VIDEO GAMES TEACH PEOPLE TO BE VIOLENT?
102.
RAGE: ONE MAN’S STORY AND TREATMENT
103.
PSYCHOPATHY AND CRIMINAL BEHAVIOR
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104.
BIOLOGICAL ROOTS OF SOCIOPATHY: AN INSIDER’S
VIEW
105.
PSYCHOLOGY OF AN ASSASSIN: THE SHOOTING OF
ARIZONA CONGRESSWOMAN GABBY GIFFORDS
106.
PSYCHOLOGY OF A SERIAL KILLER: ANGEL OF DEATH
Disorders of Childhood and Adolescence
107.
THEORY OF MIND: TAKING THE PERSPECTIVE OF
OTHERS
108.
PARENTAL DEATH AND YOUNG CHILDREN: THE
PSYCHOLOGICAL IMPACT
109.
SELECTIVE MUTISM
110.
GIRLS BULLYING GIRLS
111.
CANNABIS USE AND MEMORY EFFECTS: ANIMAL
RESEARCH AND IMPLICATIONS
Neurodevelopmental Disorders: ADHD
112.
ADHD: THE CASE OF LIAM
113.
MEDICATING ADHD: LIAM 5 YEARS LATER
Neurodevelopmental Disorders: Autism Spectrum Disorder
114.
TWO FACES OF AUTISM SPECTRUM DISORDER
115.
AUTISM SPECTRUM DISORDER: A DIFFERENT PATTERN
116.
CURRENT RESEARCH INTO AUTISM SPECTRUM
DISORDER
117.
DOES THE MMR VACCINE CAUSE AUTISM SPECTRUM
DISORDER?
118.
DR. IVAR LOVAAS TREATS A YOUNG AUTISTIC
CHILD WITH BEHAVIORAL INTERVENTION
119.
APPS FOR AUTISM: THE USE OF iPADS
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120.
AUTISTIC PRODIGY
Other Neurodevelopmental Disorders
121.
READING AND READING DISORDERS: SPECIFIC
LEARNING DISORDERS
122.
TOURETTES DISORDER AND MUSIC
123.
DOWN SYNDROME, INTIMACY, AND MARRIAGE
Disorders of Aging
124.
COMPANIONSHIP AND SUPPORT: PETS FILL THE VOID
125.
OLD AGE: LEARNING AND MOVING AT THE SAME TIME
Neurocognitive Disorders
126.
LIVING WITHOUT MEMORY
127.
ALZHEIMER’S DISEASE: A CASE, RESEARCH, AND NEW
DIRECTIONS
128.
PARKINSON’S DISEASE: A CASE STUDY
129.
BLOWS TO THE BRAIN: FROM COMBAT TO FOOTBALL
Law, Society, and the Mental Health Profession
130.
OUTPATIENT COMMITMENT: FORCING PERSONS INTO
MENTAL HEALTH TREATMENT
131.
JAILING THE MENTALLY ILL
132.
WHEN TREATMENT LEADS TO EXECUTION: MENTAL
HEALTH AND THE LAW
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Video 1
*BENJAMIN RUSH’S “RESTRAINT CHAIR”
Length: 2:25 minutes
Source: Madness: Brainwaves (BBC Motion Gallery)
Description: Although Benjamin Rush, widely considered the father of American
Psychiatry, came to believe in and practice moral treatment in the early 1800s, many of
his prior treatments reflected contemporary medical thought and would be judged quite
harshly by today’s standards. A case in point was his famous “restraint chair,” presented
in this video.
*Version available as a STUDENT VIDEO ACTIVITY under the title:
Benjamin Rush’s Moral Treatments
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Video 2
CARL JUNG TALKS ABOUT FREUD, LIFE, AND THE COLLECTIVE
UNCONSCIOUS
Length: 4:45 minutes
Source: “Professor Jung” Face to Face (BBC Motion Gallery)
Description: This video presents a rare and frank interview with Carl Jung, the founder of
analytical psychology. Jung reflects on his long-time friendship with Sigmund Freud. He
offers a frank assessment of Freud’s stubbornness and the two men’s significant
philosophical differences, which ultimately led to a professional and personal split
between them. Jung also addresses the interaction of his spiritual and scientific beliefs,
offering his views on the psyche as an entity existing beyond life and death, beyond time
and space.
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Video 3
*MEDICAL PROCEDURES USED IN MENTAL HOSPITALS IN THE
FIRST HALF OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY
Length: 4:45 minutes
Source: Treatment in Mental Disorders, 1949 (James D. Page); Prefrontal Lobotomy In
The Treatment of Mental Disorders, 1942 (Walter Freeman And James Watts). Courtesy:
History of Medicine Division, National Library of Medicine.
Description: The medical treatments used in mental hospitals during the first half of the
twentieth century were crude, largely ineffective, and often unintentionally cruel. Some
of the leading approaches are shown in this video, including the wet pack, insulin
therapy, metrazol therapy, and the lobotomy.
*Version available as a STUDENT VIDEO ACTIVITY under the title:
Early Hospital Treatments for Severe Mental Disorders
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Video 4
*LOCKING AWAY THE “FEEBLEMINDED”:
A SHAMEFUL HISTORY
Length: 7:55 minutes
Source: “Deep Dark Secret” 60 Minutes (CBS News)
Description: This video depicts the Fernald School, an institution for "feebleminded"
boys existing in the 1920s, which was, in fact, part of the American eugenics movement.
It also shows interviews with former residents who recall severe abuse and mistreatment,
and it discusses the lasting impact of an incorrect diagnosis of "moron." As you will see
in the video, evidence has come to light that involuntary experiments were conducted on
the boys in past decades.
*Version available as a STUDENT VIDEO ACTIVITY under the title:
Shameful Past Institutions for Persons with Intellectual Disability or Other
Developmental Disabilities
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Video 5
*ETHICS IN HUMAN RESEARCH:
VIOLATING ONE’S PRIVACY?
Length: 7:00 minutes
Source: “Genes” 60 Minutes (CBS News)
Description: This video explores a nationwide genetic research project conducted in
Iceland that attempts to identify genes that may predispose individuals for certain
disorders. The researcher in charge was given the right to collect and analyze the private
medical records of all Icelandic citizens. The video explores the ethical concerns and
potential misuses of such information, while also considering the benefits that genetic
research may provide.
*Version available as a STUDENT VIDEO ACTIVITY under the title:
Genetic Research: Violating One’s Privacy?
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Video 6
*DEATH OF A SUBJECT:
THE ETHICS OF MENTAL HEALTH RESEARCH
Length: 4:00 minutes
Source: “Ultimate Risk: Here to Help” 48 Hours (CBS News)
Description: This video focuses on the case of a man with schizophrenia who died after
participating in an experimental drug trial at an inpatient treatment facility. The man’s
background is examined, and his ability to make decisions relating to his own treatment
is examined. The video raises questions about the ethics of research using patients with
severe mental disorders for experimental drug trials and explores the implications of such
practices for the patients and their families.
*Version available as a STUDENT VIDEO ACTIVITY under the title:
A Tragic Consequence of Research Misconduct
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Video 7
*A LABORATORY STUDY:
LINKING PLACEBO EFFECTS TO ENDORPHINS
Length: 3:15 minutes
Source: The Keys to Paradise (BBC Motion Gallery)
Description: This video shows an experiment with human subjects whose findings
suggest that the effectiveness of placebo drugs is partly a result of the patients' release of
endorphins, their natural opioids. The implication is that, for some people, the
expectation that a given treatment will soon be helpful causes them, without awareness,
to release endorphins throughout their brain and body. In turn, the endorphins reduce
their pain or help them to feel better in other ways.
*Version available as a STUDENT VIDEO ACTIVITY under the title:
Experimental Design in Action
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Video 8
*STUDYING IDENTICAL TWINS:
NATURE VERSUS NURTURE
Length: 1:45 minutes
Source: “In the Genes” 48 Hours (CBS News)
Description: This video shows two identical twins who were separated at birth, unaware
of the other’s existence until adulthood. The two exhibit very similar personalities,
mannerisms, interests, hobbies, and physical appearance (though one is heavier than the
other). Also, both twins independently went into the same profession, firefighting. As the
video suggests, genes may play a significant role in people’s physical, emotional, social,
and mental development.
*Version available as a STUDENT VIDEO ACTIVITY under the title:
Separated at Birth: Nature Versus Nurture
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Video 9
THE UNCONSCIOUS:
MODERN VIEWS
Length: 5:30 minutes
Source: “Out of Control” Horizon (BBC Motion Gallery)
Description: This video explores the role of the unconscious in shaping people’s
experience of life, focusing especially on the part it plays in optimism about the future.
The video demonstrates the research of Dr. Tali Sharot of University College, London,
into the question of why human beings so often ignore the risks and possible negative
outcomes of their behaviors. Through experiments involving brain scans, Sharot
demonstrates that humans have a tendency to unconsciously disregard and even forget
negative information – such as a higher than expected likelihood of experiencing cancer
during one’s lifetime – yet to embrace positive information. Sharot suggests that people
unconsciously view the future in an overly optimistic manner as a way of regulating
stress and anxiety and also as a motivation to work hard to achieve goals even without the
total assurance of success.
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Video 10
*BANDURA’S BOBO DOLL EXPERIMENT:
MODELING OF AGGRESSION
Length: 5:00 minutes
Source: Albert Bandura, Stanford University, and Worth Publishers
Description: Does an individual’s observation of aggressive or violent models of
behavior lead, in turn, to aggressive or violent behavior by the individual? Yes, according
to this famous study by Albert Bandura, which lead him to develop his behavioral theory
of modeling. As you will see in this video, narrated by Bandura himself, children in the
study attack a Bobo doll after observing an adult model do the same.
*Version available as a STUDENT VIDEO ACTIVITY under the title:
Bandura’s Bobo Doll: Is Aggressive Behavior Learned?
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Video 11
DR. AARON BECK UNCOVERS THE COGNITIONS OF A
DEPRESSED CLIENT
Length: 4:00 minutes
Source: Cognitive Therapy of Depression, 1977 (Dr. Aaron Beck, The Beck Institute for
Cognitive Therapy and Research)
Description: In this video Aaron Beck, originator of cognitive therapy, conducts an
interview with a depressed woman (played by an actress). During the interview, Beck
discusses the woman’s current situation with her, points out her cognitive reactions to it,
and helps her begin to examine her thinking.
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Video 12
JOHN AND JULIE GOTTMAN EXAMINE MARITAL
AND FAMILY STRESS
Length: 7:15 minutes
Source: CBS Early Show, CBS Sunday Morning (CBS News)
Description: In this video, psychologists John Gottman and Julie Schwartz Gottman
demonstrate their research on relationships, and also discuss how couples can maintain
romance in their relationship after having children. The Gottmans illustrate the pitfalls
many couples face, and clarify the pressures that growing families can place on couple
relationships. Finally, the researchers show "the Love Lab," a research facility they have
set up to look like a typical house or apartment. Couples participating in a research are
monitored while fighting or relating to each other, and corresponding brain scans are
examined.
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Video 13
DO SOCIAL FORCES CAUSE ANTISOCIAL BEHAVIOR?
REPLICATING THE MILGRAM STUDY
Length: 8:00 minutes
Source: “The Truth About Violence” Horizon (BBC Motion Gallery)
Description: This video looks at Stanley Milgram’s famous research on obedience to
authority, the results of which were published in 1963. The video features a recreation of
Milgram’s study overseen by social psychologist Clifford Stott. Twelve people
participate in what they are told is an important experiment on memory, not realizing that
the experimenter and their fellow subject are actually actors. Each actual subject is
assigned the role of “teacher” and told to test his or her fellow subject’s memory. They
are instructed to give an increasingly large electric shock to the other person for each
wrong answer, though no shocks are actually administered and the “screams” of the other
person are pre-recorded. Nine of the twelve participants increase the dosage all the way
up to a fatal 450 volts, despite serious misgivings and attempts to stop. Interviewed after
the experiment, those who continued to the end say that they were feeling stressed but
were swayed by the fake experimenter’s insistence that they had no choice but to
continue, although at least one such individual concedes that he knew that he and not the
experimenter was ultimately responsible.
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Video 14
*CITY OF GHEEL:
COMMUNITY MENTAL HEALTH AT ITS BEST
Length: 7:15 minutes
Source: “All in the Family” 60 Minutes (CBS News)
Description: This video focuses on the community of Gheel, Belgium, in which over 650
psychiatric patients live with and are cared for by local families. The progress of the
patients is examined, and it is noted that many patients require lower levels of medication
as a result of participation in family-care. The video also explores how the family-care
system impacts the rest of the community.
*Version available as a STUDENT VIDEO ACTIVITY under the title:
City of Gheel: Community Mental Health in Action
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Video 15
CLINICIANS TRY TO IDENTIFY NORMALCY
Length: 7:45 minutes
Source: “How Mad Are You?” Horizon (BBC Motion Gallery)
Description: This video shows an exploration into just how accurate mental health
experts are at assessing who is normal when they are only able to observe individuals
being tested or in group activities. Three well-respected mental health professionals –
psychiatrist Michael First of Columbia University, Ian Hewlett of England’s Royal
College of Nursing, and Richard Bentall of Bangor University – are asked to watch ten
volunteers undergo detailed psychological tests and evaluations. They are told five of the
subjects have a disorder, and five do not. In the video the experts, who have not had a
chance to directly interview these subjects, guess incorrectly twice about one woman,
first mistakenly believing she has no disorder, then later guessing that she has bipolar
disorder. She later reveals that she has in fact suffered from depression. The
demonstration is inspired in part by the famous Rosenhan study, published in 1973, and
raises related questions.
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Video 16
GENETIC TESTING:
DO PEOPLE NEED TO KNOW?
Length: 7:50 minutes
Source: “Need To Know” CBS Sunday Morning (CBS News)
Description: This video examines the issue of genetic testing, and particularly the
question of whether people want to know about their odds of later developing significant
psychological or medical disorders if there is no known cure. Many people seem to want
to have the information, even if the news is not good. Dr. Robert Green of Brigham and
Women’s Hospital describes research that shows that among subjects who requested a
test for predisposition to Alzheimer’s disease, no significant differences were found in
the reactions between people who received good news and those who received bad news,
suggesting that those who want to know are able to handle the answers. Dr. J. William
Harbour of the Bascom Palmer eye institute discusses a genetic test available to eye
cancer patients that in effect lets them know if their cancer is likely to be terminal. He
says that many choose to take the test, and in the video several patients who choose to
take the test offer their reasons for wanting to know their chances. Also in the video, a
woman whose mother died of Huntington’s disease chooses to test herself for the genetic
marker. Doctors and scientists in the video speculate that perhaps in the future such
genetic information will be an automatic part of everyone’s medical profile.
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Video 17
*ASSESSMENT OF PSYCHOPATHY
Length: 3:55 minutes
Source: The Mind, Second Edition (Thirteen, WNET, and Worth Publishers)
Description: This video offers a clinical picture of psychopathy (sociopathy) and
demonstrates a leading tool for assessing this antisocial pattern. The video focuses on the
work of Robert Hare and on the “Hare Psychopathy Checklist,” and further considers
how well clinicians can predict criminal behavior or violent behavior.
*Version available as a STUDENT VIDEO ACTIVITY under the title:
Assessing Psychopathy
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Video 18
*BRAIN FINGERPRINTING:
MEMORY, RECOGNITION, AND LIE DETECTION
Length: 5:00 minutes
Source: “Brain Fingerprinting” 60 Minutes (CBS News)
Description: This video examines the technique of brain fingerprinting, which determines
whether or not information is stored in the brain by measuring electrical brain waves.
Researchers believe that brain waves can reveal whether information is present even
when an individual may want to keep it hidden. The video presents a case in which brain
fingerprinting was used to determine whether or not an accused man had information
about the details of a past crime.
*Version available as a STUDENT VIDEO ACTIVITY under the title:
“Brain Fingerprinting”: Detecting Hidden Thoughts
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Video 19
AVATARS ONLINE:
A NEW DIRECTION IN PSYCHOTHERAPY?
Length: 3:20 minutes
Source: CBS Evening News (CBS News)
Description: This video explores an Internet-based treatment approach that is helping to
change the outlook for people with agoraphobia and social anxiety disorder. Focusing on
the case of Patricia, an agoraphobic woman who was once fearful of leaving her house,
the video shows how developing an “avatar” on an online virtual world enabled her to
expose herself to activities she had feared previously. Patricia’s agoraphobia has
improved greatly with this approach. The video also shows a psychotherapist who
interacts online with patients via his own avatar.
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Video 20
WATSON’S FAMOUS STUDY:
LITTLE ALBERT
Length: 3:00 minutes
Source: Distributed Exclusively By Penn State Media Sales On Behalf Of The Archives
Of The History Of American Psychology.
Description: This video contains footage of the famous 1920 study of Little Albert, in
which behaviorists John Watson and Rosalie Rayner taught a baby boy to fear white rats.
The video has three parts: (1) The baby reacts comfortably prior to the study when
confronted by animals, including a rat; (2) The baby reacts fearfully to a white rat after
undergoing classical conditioning; (3) The baby’s conditioned fear of rats generalizes to
similar objects such as other animals, a fur coat, and a mask.
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Video 21
SPECIFIC PHOBIAS, PANIC DISORDER, AND
SOCIAL ANXIETY DISORDER: 3 CASES
Length: 2:10 minutes
Source: “Phobias” CBS Sunday Morning (CBS News)
Description: This video presents three cases, displaying specific phobias, panic disorder,
and social anxiety disorder; this video also shows how research into such anxiety
disorders is pointing the way toward better treatments. A woman with panic disorder
describes the fear associated with her panic episodes. A woman with an elevator phobia
describes the great lengths she’s gone to in order to avoid elevators and how therapy has
enabled her to now ride in elevators. A woman with social anxiety disorder describes her
terrible fear of social situations. Dennis Charney of Mount Sinai hospital uses brain scans
to demonstrate the biological roots of anxiety disorders, including unusual activity of the
amygdala and cerebral cortex.
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Video 22
AGORAPHOBIA
Length: 1:55 minutes
Source: “Phobias” CBS Sunday Morning (CBS News)
Description: This video presents a case study of agoraphobia. A composer, pianist, and
music professor discusses his agoraphobia. He describes the discomfort he experiences
whenever he’s taken out of comfort zones and his fears of various settings, such as
elevators, airplanes, and cars. He also addresses the negative impact his disorder has had
on his functioning. He discusses his belief that his early family situation – a father with
phobias and an institutionalized twin sister – was a trigger for his disorder. He also
describes how medication and therapy have helped him conquer his fears.
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Video 23
SOCIAL ANXIETY DISORDER AND COGNITIVE-BEHAVIORAL
THERAPY: A CASE STUDY
Length: 8:00 minutes
Source: Trust Me, I’m a Doctor (BBC Motion Gallery)
Description: This video presents the case of a woman who suffers from social anxiety
disorder, and demonstrates the course of cognitive-behavioral therapy she undergoes. A
classical guitarist, she has developed anxiety that is so severe she is unable to perform.
She describes the terror she associates with performing and the fear of judgment. She
undergoes sessions of cognitive-behavioral therapy in which she rates her anxiety and is
confronted with the inaccuracy of many of her thoughts, such as her expectation that she
can please every single audience member. She is also taught to replace negative thoughts
with positive thoughts, such as reminding herself how well she has prepared for the
performance. She then performs several times in the video, first for an audience of one
that is not paying close attention, then for her therapist, and finally at a concert in front of
a full audience, which goes very well.
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Video 24
*OVERCOMING A DOG PHOBIA
Length: 8:00 minutes
Source: Phobias (BBC Motion Gallery)
Description: This video shows the case of Danny, a 10-year-old boy who suffers from a
severe fear of dogs. The video shows how his fear of dogs affects his life, as he is unable
to walk to school without his mother’s help or visit friends’ houses. During the video, he
undergoes a course of behavioral exposure therapy, and within a few sessions is able to
play happily with dogs, his phobia overcome.
*Version available as a STUDENT VIDEO ACTIVITY under the title:
Overcoming a Dog Phobia
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Video 25
EXPOSURE TREATMENT FOR AN ELEVATOR PHOBIA
Length: 2:15 minutes
Source: “Phobias” 48 Hours (CBS News)
Description: This video features a man who has an intense fear of elevators. In the video
he attempts to overcome his phobia with behavioral exposure therapy, by confronting the
situation (elevator riding) that he dreads. A therapist treats the man with a combination of
exposure, group support, and relaxation techniques, and ultimately he successfully rides
an elevator and displays significant improvement.
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Video 26
*OBSESSIVE-COMPULSIVE DISORDER:
A YOUNG MOTHER’S STRUGGLE
Length: 7:15 minutes
Source: “Who’s Normal Anyway?” Obsessions (BBC Motion Gallery)
Description: This video focuses on the numerous and intense symptoms of a woman with
obsessive-compulsive disorder. Her obsessive fears and compulsive behaviors are tied in
particular to her young son and to her concerns for his safety from contamination. The
video shows the woman carrying out extreme, ritualized behavior. She discusses the
negative impact her compulsions have had on her life and her ability to parent her child.
*Version available as a STUDENT VIDEO ACTIVITY under the title:
The Impact of Obsessions and Compulsions
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Video 27
TREATMENT OF OCD:
EXPOSURE AND RESPONSE PREVENTION
Length: 7:15 minutes
Source: "Who’s Normal Anyway?" Obsessions (BBC Motion Gallery)
Description: Following up on the previous video (Video 26), this video features the
treatment intervention for the woman with obsessive-compulsive disorder. Her obsessive
fears and compulsive behaviors are tied in particular to her young son and to her concerns
for his safety from contamination. The video shows a powerful session of exposure and
response prevention treatment. By the end of treatment the woman displays significant
improvement.
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Video 28
*BODY DYSMORPHIC DISORDER:
BEYOND PERFECTION
Length: 4:35 minutes
Source: “Seeking Perfection” Obsessions (BBC Motion Gallery)
Description: This video case focuses on a woman who suffers from body dysmorphic
disorder, now listed as an obsessive-compulsive-related disorder in DSM-5. She
perceives her normal facial skin as horribly disfigured. This distorted body image
severely impairs her personal and professional life. The case also focuses on how her
concerns have unfolded since her adolescence.
*Version available as a STUDENT VIDEO ACTIVITY under the title:
Body Dysmorphic Disorder: An Obsessive-Compulsive-Related Disorder
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Video 29
*HOARDING:
A LIFE OF CLUTTER
Length: 7:00 minutes
Source: “Who’s Normal Anyway?” Obsessions (BBC Motion Gallery)
Description: Hoarding disorder has been added as an obsessive-compulsive-related
disorder In DSM-5. This video focuses on the symptoms of and treatment for two
individuals who are unable to throw away any possessions, a behavioral pattern that has
caused them to become extremely uncomfortable in their own homes. In the video,
psychologists examine the possible roots of this dysfunctional pattern. The clip also
features a treatment session.
*Version available as a STUDENT VIDEO ACTIVITY under the title:
Hoarding: A Life of Clutter
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Video 30
*TRICHOTILLOMANIA:
PULLING OUT ONE’S HAIR
Length: 6:15 minutes
Source: “Who’s Normal Anyway?” Obsessions (BBC Motion Gallery)
Description: DSM-5 lists trichotillomania as an obsessive-compulsive-related disorder.
Focusing on a young woman with this disorder, this video explores the nature, causes,
and treatments of trichotillomania, a disorder in which individuals repeatedly pull out
their hair. The video also shows the young woman undergoing an intervention which
seems to result in significant improvement.
*Version available as a STUDENT VIDEO ACTIVITY under the title:
Trichotillomania: Pulling Out One’s Hair
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Video 31
*FIGHT OR FLIGHT:
MEASURING STRESS WHILE RUNNING WITH THE BULLS
Length: 4:25 minutes
Source: “Born to Survive” Human Instinct (BBC Motion Gallery)
Description: This video features the running of the bulls in Pamplona, Spain, which
continues to be a popular event despite the fact that many persons have been gored or
even killed since its inception. In particular, the clip focuses on one man who is running
with the bulls. His physiological reactions – including heart rate and cortisol levels – are
monitored before, during, and after his participation. The nature of the body’s fight-orflight response to danger is also featured.
*Version available as a STUDENT VIDEO ACTIVITY under the title:
Fight-Or-Flight: How Stress Affects Psychological and Bodily Functioning
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Video 32
THE STRESS-CORTISOL CONNECTION:
NOT FOR ADULTS ONLY
Length: 3:30 minutes
Source: “Hormone Heaven” Body Chemistry (BBC Motion Gallery)
Description: This video examines childhood stress and also demonstrates research into
the link between childhood stress and the hormone cortisol. It shows a study by Marilyn
Essex in which children’s cortisol levels are measured during stressful situations. The
children meet a stranger who makes them feel stressed, resulting in differing levels of
stress and of cortisol production. The study suggests that those with higher cortisol levels
withdraw, while those with lower levels are friendly and talkative. This suggests that
cortisol may negatively affect health and other physical and emotional conditions.
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Video 33
STRESS, SLEEP DEPRIVATION, AND AGGRESSION
Length: 4:40 minutes
Source: “How Violent Are You?” Horizon (BBC Motion Gallery)
Description: This video demonstrates the effects that sleep deprivation and stress have on
personality, particularly on aggression and anger. A normally calm man spends three
days in a lab setting where he must care for “twin babies” – in actuality dolls that cry
very loudly like normal babies. As the babies’ crying keeps him awake and demands his
attention, the man begins to feel increasing anger, resentment, and even unwarranted
suspicion toward those running the demonstration. After 60 hours without sleep he
describes how his personality was altered, experiencing aggression and anger that are
totally out of his normal character.
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Video 34
*POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER:
A COMBAT VETERAN
Length: 3:55 minutes
Source: “In the Heat of the Moment” Brain Story (BBC Motion Gallery)
Description: This video focuses on a Vietnam veteran who suffers from posttraumatic
stress disorder, which affects his family, personal, and professional life. We see footage
that conveys the intensity and anxiety-arousing nature of his combat experience. The
video also features specific symptoms of the disorder and details how flashbacks and
persistent watchfulness impede daily functioning. The segment includes the work of the
PTSD researcher Douglas Bremner.
*Version available as a STUDENT VIDEO ACTIVITY under the title:
One Man’s Return from Combat
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Video 35
FEAR, PTSD, AND THE BRAIN
Length: 4:00 minutes
Source: “In the Heat of the Moment” Brain Story (BBC Motion Gallery)
Description: Focusing on Vietnam combat veterans with PTSD, this video features
research into the underlying physiological factors at work in the disorder. Brain scans of
a PTSD sufferer as he is exposed to images of war reveal that the hippocampus, a brain
region implicated in the function of memory, operates abnormally in individuals with
PTSD. This suggests that this brain area may be partly responsible for the unusual
patterns of anxiety and fear on display. The work of PTSD researcher Douglas Bremner
is featured in this video.
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Video 36
INHERITING PTSD:
THE GHOST IN YOUR GENES
Length: 6:40 minutes
Source: “The Ghost in Your Genes” Horizon (BBC Motion Gallery)
Description: This video examines the possibility that abnormal stress responses can be
passed down from generation to generation through genetics. It shows the work of Rachel
Yehuda of Mount Sinai Hospital, whose research determined that the children of
holocaust sufferers experienced elevated levels of stress themselves, and Jonathan Seckl
of Edinburgh University, whose work with pregnant rats shows that stress genes can be
passed down through generations. Both Yehuda and Seckl describe their research post
9/11 into women who were pregnant and at the site of the World Trade Center on that
day. They found that pregnant 9/11 survivors who experienced PTSD actually gave birth
to infants with abnormal cortisol levels, which is associated with stress disorders. It will
not be known until the children born to pregnant 9/11 survivors begin to have children
themselves, years from now, whether this genetic memory of stress is passed to
subsequent generations.
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Video 37
DISSOCIATIVE AMNESIA VERSUS ORGANIC AMNESIA
Length: 7:55 minutes
Source: “Exploring the Science of Amnesia” CBS Sunday Morning (CBS News)
Description: This video looks at two different cases of amnesia – one dissociative and
one organic – as well as ongoing research into the nature of memory loss. The video
presents the case of a woman who experienced the type of dissociative amnesia known as
dissociative fugue, in which she woke up 600 miles away from where she last
remembered being, with no idea how she got there or who she was. There was nothing
wrong with her brain functioning, yet her autobiographical memory was greatly affected.
The woman describes her experience, the fear she felt, and her work with psychiatrist
Colin Ross to regain her memories. She insists she had no control over the fugue and did
not intend it, despite a difficult life situation. Researchers Larry Squire and Jacopo
Annese of the Brain Observatory of the University of California San Diego discuss the
famous case of the recently deceased Henry Molaison (H.M.), whose brain seizure
surgery in the 1950s left him unable to form new memories. Neurologist Robert Burton
expresses his skepticism that people can truly experience dissociative amnesia while
maintaining a high level of general brain function.
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Video 38
IS DISSOCIATIVE IDENTITY DISORDER A REAL DISORDER?
Length: 5:00 minutes
Source: “Multiple Personality Disorder” (CBS News)
Description: This video examines the debate in the mental health field surrounding
dissociative identity disorder, the DSM-5 disorder in which people develop multiple
personalities. Richard Kluft, a psychiatrist at Temple University Medical School, makes
the case that the disorder is not only real but prevalent, suggesting there may be millions
of sufferers, most undiagnosed. Paul McHugh of Johns Hopkins takes the opposite view,
expressing his belief that dissociative identity disorder is not real, and that all cases are
actually caused by the attention of therapists or patients’ attempts to gain attention from
their therapists. Former NFL star Herschel Walker describes his own multiple
personalities and denounces therapists who cast doubt on the disorder. A woman who
sued her therapist for convincing her she had the disorder also appears in the video.
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Video 39
*THREE FACES OF EVE:
THE REAL PERSON
Length: 4:50 minutes
Source: “The Real Three Faces of Eve,” 1957 (Chris Sizemore and The Jerry Naylor Co.
LLC)
Description: Most people have read the book or seen the feature film The Three Faces
of Eve, or at least heard about this famous case. However, few have actually observed
the woman who suffered from this disorder. In this video — a filmed interview
conducted by her therapist a half century ago — we see Eve’s three subpersonalities
discussing their views and behaviors and displaying different patterns of speech, gestures,
body language, and experiences. It is worth noting that, as it turned out, this woman also
experienced many other personalities beyond those on display in this interview or in the
case study. Moreover, she later recovered fully.
*Version available as a STUDENT VIDEO ACTIVITY under the title:
Three Faces of Eve: The Real Person
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Video 40
*CREATING FALSE MEMORIES:
A LABORATORY STUDY
Length: 4:45 minutes
Source: “False Memories” Tomorrow’s World (BBC Motion Gallery)
Description: This video demonstrates an experiment into the nature of memory, and
shows how false memories can be introduced into a normal person’s recollection. In the
experiment shown in the video, subjects are shown and questioned about photographs
from their childhood, including one photograph doctored to show an event (a hot air
balloon ride) the subject never really experienced. After a week, half of the subjects
actually believe that they can recall the experience of the hot air balloon ride. This video
shows how subjective and often unreliable memory can be, and how easily it can be
manipulated. The video features a research follow-up to the work of Elizabeth Loftus,
and includes work by Maryanne Garry and Kimberley Wade.
*Version available as a STUDENT VIDEO ACTIVITY under the title:
Repressed Memories or False Memories?
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Video 41
HYPOCHONDRIASIS BECOMES ILLNESS ANXIETY DISORDER
Length: 3:10 minutes
Source: “Hypochondria” (CBS News)
Description: This video explores the clinical picture and treatment of hypochondriasis, a
pattern that can be identified in either of two new DSM-5 categories ―”somatic
symptom disorder” and “illness anxiety disorder.” A woman who has suffered for years
from this pattern describes the extreme fear, anxiety, and self-absorption she has
experienced. Both she and her primary care doctor describe his blunt assessment of her
disorder. Psychiatrist Arthur Barsky of Brigham and Women’s Hospital describes the
importance of taking this problem seriously, noting that it is a real disorder with a
biological brain component, and points out that the physical symptoms and distress
sufferers feel is very real, even if they are do not have the physical maladies they believe
they do. He describes the importance of positive thinking and psychological treatment in
relieving both the anxiety and physical symptoms associated with the pattern.
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Video 42
HOW DOES ANXIETY AFFECT PAIN?
Length: 4:20 minutes
Source: “The Secret World of Pain” Horizon (BBC Motion Gallery)
Description: This video looks at the effect that emotions, particularly anxiety, have on
how people experience pain. The video shows the research of Professor Irene Tracey of
the University of Oxford. Tracey uses brain scans to understand which key brain areas
are involved in the processing of pain, and also how anxiety can amplify the experience
of pain. In experiments, subjects are repeatedly shown a triangle shape before
experiencing a mild burning stimulus, and they report a moderate level of pain. They are
then shown a square before repeatedly experiencing a more intense burn stimulus, and
they report a higher level of pain. Later, the subjects are shown the square, but receive the
milder burn stimulus, and they tend to report higher levels of pain than earlier when
exposed to the same stimulus. This demonstrates the key role anxiety can play in
intensifying people’s experience of pain, and, as such, it may have implications for two
DSM-5 disorders―somatic symptom disorder and conversion disorder.
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Video 43
*COPING WITH PAIN
Length: 5:40 minutes
Source: “Pain” CBS Sunday Morning (CBS News)
Description: Significant pain can be produced by medical problems of various kinds.
Coping effectively with pain has become a major treatment focus. In fact, according to
DSM-5, certain persons whose pain problems bring them excessive and disproportionate
psychological upset and dysfunction may qualify for a diagnosis of somatic symptom
disorder. This video focuses on the experience of pain and on the development of acute
pain and treatment methods. It shows research at the Pain Management Center of UCSF
into the psychological and physical effects of undertreating acute pain. Comprehensive
treatment of pain is also discussed.
*Version available as a STUDENT VIDEO ACTIVITY under the title:
Coping with Pain
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Video 44
HYPNOSIS:
MEDICAL AND PSYCHOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS
Length: 5:20 minutes
Source: “Hypnosis” CBS Sunday Morning (CBS News)
Description: This video examines the use and effectiveness of hypnosis in medical
settings. It explores the use of hypnosis as a relaxation treatment technique. Research
shown in the video demonstrates that medical procedures in which hypnosis is applied
often work faster, are more comfortable for patients, and result in fewer side effects. New
hypnosis methods such as virtual reality hypnosis are also explored.
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Video 45
*STRESS AND THE IMMUNE SYSTEM:
CARETAKERS AT RISK
Length: 3:15 minutes
Source: “Mind Over Body” Horizon (BBC Motion Gallery)
Description: This video examines the relationship between caretaking (specifically,
caring for family members with a major neurocognitive disorder), stress, and health. The
video focuses on a man who cares for his wife with Alzheimer’s disease and presents the
emotional and physical toll that chronic stress takes on him and on other such individuals.
Finally, a study by Janice Kiecolt Glaser and Ronald Glaser is presented, providing
evidence that long-term stress can lower the human body’s immune response.
*Version available as a STUDENT VIDEO ACTIVITY under the title:
Caretaking: The Physical Toll
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Video 46
*FIGHTING CANCER:
MOBILIZING THE IMMUNE SYSTEM
Length: 6:35 minutes
Source: “Mind Over Body” Horizon (BBC Motion Gallery)
Description: Medical illnesses are of interest to clinical psychologists on two fronts. One,
stress can worsen or help produce medical problems. Two, according to DSM-5, people
who overreact psychologically to somatic symptoms ― even ones with clear medical
causes ― may qualify for a diagnosis of somatic symptom disorder. This video focuses
on the use of certain interventions to help cancer patients cope with the physical and
psychological impact of their illness and of their chemotherapy. The video also features
research on such interventions, including findings that cancer patients who receive the
interventions tend to survive longer.
*Version available as a STUDENT VIDEO ACTIVITY under the title:
Can Cancer Patients Suffer from Somatic Symptom Disorder?
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Video 47
*SLEEP AND SLEEPLESSNESS:
THE CURRENT SCENE
Length: 5:45 minutes
Source: “Sleepless in America” CBS Sunday Morning (CBS News)
Description: This video explores research into the sleep patterns and problems of people
today and examines the question of how much sleep people need. Research presented in
the video suggests that sleep disorders affect the body as well as the mind. The video also
highlights a study of sleep patterns in certain animals and discusses its usefulness for
understanding disorders of sleep control in humans.
*Version available as a STUDENT VIDEO ACTIVITY under the title:
Sleep Deprivation: The Current Scene
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Video 48
CHRONIC NIGHTMARES
Length: 5:20 minutes
Source: “Your Worst Nightmare” CBS Sunday Morning (CBS News)
Description: This video looks at the impact of chronic nightmares, presenting both the
experiences of those who suffer from them and ongoing research into how to treat them.
Several sufferers describe the truly horrifying events of their nightmares, but surprisingly
say they would prefer to keep experiencing them rather than be cured. Dr. Antonio Zagra
of the University of Montreal discusses his research into the subject of nightmares, a
pursuit that was inspired by a nightmare he experienced as a young man. Dr. Ross Levin,
a psychologist who specializes in sleep disorders, describes his treatment of patients who
suffer from chronic nightmares. He says that by visualizing happier outcomes for their
nightmares while awake, his patients are actually able to stop experiencing terrible events
in their dreams. Another psychologist, Dr. Maxine Gann, on the other hand, describes her
emphasis on understanding deeper meanings behind nightmares as the key to her
treatment of patients with nightmares.
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Video 49
*THE SEARCH FOR HAPPINESS
Length: 6:15 minutes
Source: “The Pursuit of Happiness” CBS Sunday Morning (CBS News)
Description: This video explores the concept of happiness and the human perception of
it. It considers how the definition of happiness has changed over the years, from religious
devotion to suffering to the current American emphasis on "the pursuit of happiness."
The video further looks at an elderly couple who find happiness in devoting their lives to
caring for animals. The segment also focuses on research into how people can learn to
accept the happiness that is available in their own lives rather than yearn for a level of
happiness that is unrealistic.
*Version available as a STUDENT VIDEO ACTIVITY under the title:
Seeking Happiness: To Each His Own
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Video 50
*PARENTAL ATTACHMENT IN INFANCY:
HARRY HARLOW AND THE “WIRE MOTHER”
Length: 7:00 minutes
Source: Conquest: Mother Love (CBS News)
Description: In this classic 1960 footage, famous researcher Harry Harlow demonstrates
how his work with rhesus monkeys sheds light on the development of attachment and
"mother love". Harlow conducts experiments in which monkeys who have been raised
with an artificial mother made out of wire, which provides milk, nevertheless turn to
artificial mothers made of cloth in times of distress or in unfamiliar surroundings. Harlow
exposes the monkeys to frightening artificial robot threats, and finds that there is an
innate craving by the monkeys for soft tactile comforting touch – touch that cannot be
provided by a "wire mother," even one that has been solely responsible for the nursing of
the monkeys.
*Version available as a STUDENT VIDEO ACTIVITY under the title:
“Wire Mothers” and Attachment: Harlow’s Monkeys
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Video 51
*PERSISTENT DEPRESSIVE DISORDER:
A CASE STUDY
Length: 8:35 minutes
Source: Black Dog: A Depression Tale (BBC Motion Gallery)
Description: DSM-5 has added the category "persistent depressive disorder" for
individuals whose depression is chronic ― either in severe or mild form (the latter called
dysthymic disorder). The young man in this video seems to display a severe form of the
disorder. The video takes an in-depth look at the impact of symptoms of clinical
depression on his life. It shows the man’s physical and psychological state through a
series of interactions, interviews, and personal video diary segments that take place over
an extended period.
*Version available as a STUDENT VIDEO ACTIVITY under the title:
Persistent Depressive Disorder
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Video 52
POSTPARTUM DEPRESSION
Length: 6:00 minutes
Source: CBS Weekend Early News; CBS Early Show (CBS News)
Description: This video explores postpartum depression. Women who previously
suffered from postpartum depression and their husbands discuss the feelings they
experienced following the birth of their children. The video also profiles one woman who
experienced severe postpartum depression, showing how she was helped by new
assessment tools and treatment techniques.
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Video 53
*DISRUPTIVE MOOD DYSREGULATION DISORDER
(CHILD BIPOLAR DISORDER)
Length: 2:45 minutes
Source: Bipolar Children Misdiagnosed” CBS Evening News (CBS News)
Description: During the past decade, the number of children diagnosed with child bipolar
disorder has increased enormously. Some clinicians think this is an appropriate trend and
believe that bipolar disorder is in fact underdiagnosed among children. In contrast, others
believe that the diagnosis should not be applied to young children, and, in fact, DSM-5 now
lists a new diagnosis called “disruptive mood dysregulation disorder,” which, it says, should
be applied to children rather than bipolar disorder. This video shows the case of 4-year-old
whose severe rages have led to a diagnosis of bipolar disorder. The video also examines the
controversy about applying that diagnosis to young children and then treating them with
medications that have not been tested empirically on children that young.
*Version available as a STUDENT VIDEO ACTIVITY under the title:
“Child Bipolar Disorder” Versus “Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder”
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Video 54
DR. AARON BECK CONDUCTS COGNITIVE THERAPY
FOR DEPRESSION
Length: 6:00 minutes
Source: Cognitive Therapy of Depression, 1977 (Dr. Aaron Beck, The Beck Institute For
Cognitive Therapy And Research)
Description: In this video Aaron Beck treats the depressed woman (played by an actress)
that he interviewed in Video 11. Demonstrating cognitive therapy, Dr. Beck helps the
client identify the precise thoughts, illogical thinking processes, and maladaptive attitudes
that are helping to cause her depression, and he helps her challenge these thoughts and
interpretations.
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Video 55
THE DEVELOPMENT AND USE OF SSRIs
Length: 2:50 minutes
Source: “Pill Poppers” Horizon (BBC Motion Gallery)
Description: This video describes the history of the development and use of selective
serotonin reuptake inhibitors in the treatment of depression. The video demonstrates,
through interviews with researchers and practitioners, how breakthroughs in the
understanding of serotonin’s role in depression led to the development of these
antidepressants, which became very popular in the early 1990s. These medications had
fewer side effects than previous antidepressants, and also removed some of the stigma
from depression, which encouraged more people to seek help. However, some of the
clinical theorists interviewed feel that over the course of the last twenty years, the
popularity of these drugs has led to their being overprescribed and to the over-diagnosing
of depression. It also has emerged that these medications may increase suicidal behavior
and thoughts in some people.
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Video 56
*QUESTIONING THE EFFECTIVENESS OF
ANTIDEPRESSANT DRUGS
Length: 6:45 minutes
Source: “Treating Depression,” 60 Minutes (CBS News)
Description: This video explores emerging research that suggests that antidepressants
may actually have no effect on most cases of mild or moderate depression and may be
successful primarily through the placebo effect. Irving Kirsch of Harvard University
shows how his research into placebo effects and depression led him to this surprising
conclusion, which he says was verified by examining drug studies that pharmaceutical
companies chose not to publish. Walter Brown of Brown University and Tim Kendall,
director of England’s National Collaborating Centre for Mental Health, agree with
Kirsch’s view that antidepressants have little effect on depression except in the most
severe cases. Kendall describes how in Great Britain, the National Health Service has
already dramatically altered the guidelines for antidepressant prescriptions, reserving
prescriptions for the most severe cases and focusing on talk therapy and exercise for mild
to moderate cases.
*Version available as a STUDENT VIDEO ACTIVITY under the title:
How Helpful Are Antidepressant Medications?
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Video 57
*ELECTROCONVULSIVE THERAPY
Length: 1:40 minutes
Source: Madness: Brainwaves (BBC Motion Gallery)
Description: This video illustrates what ECT is like today, including the use of
medication to help persons sleep through the procedure, muscle relaxants to reduce
bodily thrashing, and oxygen, and the consequent reduction of the overt symptoms of the
seizure produced by ECT.
*Version available as a STUDENT VIDEO ACTIVITY under the title:
ECT: Effective and Frightening
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Video 58
BRAIN AREA 25, DEPRESSION, AND DEEP BRAIN STIMULATION
Length: 7:30 minutes
Source: “Area 25” 60 Minutes (CBS News)
Description: This video presents a potential breakthrough in the understanding of
depression, and offers a look at the intervention called deep brain stimulation. Following
the case of a severely depressed woman, the video focuses on the brain area known as
Area 25 that is believed by some clinical researchers to be closely linked to depression.
The woman receives deep brain stimulation as part of a study led by neurologist Helen
Mayberg and neurosurgeon Andreas Lozano in Toronto. The treatment procedure and
initial follow-up do not produce immediate improvements, but after several months and
treatment adjustments, the woman does improve significantly.
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Video 59
LAUGHTER CLUBS
Length: 4:20 minutes
Source: “No Laughing Matter” CBS Early Show (CBS News)
Description: This video looks at the benefits – physical and psychological – of laughter.
The video examines the trend of “laughter yoga” and “laughter clubs,” which were
initially based on the research of Dr. Madan Kataria in India. Kataria demonstrated that
the physical act of laughter, whether or not inspired by an actual joke, may help improve
cardiovascular health, immune system functioning, and one’s emotional state. The roots
of laughter in the behavior of primates is discussed. The video explores the expansion of
this trend to the United States, and features the comments of psychologists,
neuroscientists, and a sufferer of a debilitating disease, on laughter’s benefits to the brain
and body.
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Video 60
*SEASONAL AFFECTIVE DISORDER AND LIGHT THERAPY
Length: 6:10 minutes
Source: “Seasonal Affective Disorder” (CBS News)
Description: Clinicians have become aware that many people suffer from Seasonal
Affective Disorder (S.A.D.). They become clinically depressed each winter, apparently
due to the decrease in light that occurs during winter months and to the corresponding
increase in their bodies’ secretions of the hormone melatonin. One helpful treatment for
this kind of depression is light therapy, treatment that provides S.A.D. sufferers with
extra doses of light – levels they would be receiving from the sun if they lived closer to
the equator. This video demonstrates light therapy and its dramatic impact on some
persons with S.A.D.
*Version available as a STUDENT VIDEO ACTIVITY under the title:
Light Therapy: Treating Seasonal Affective Disorder
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Video 61
*SUICIDE: CASE OF THE “3-STAR” CHEF
Length: 4:40 minutes
Source: “The People’s Chef” 60 Minutes (CBS News)
Description: This video case tells the story of Chef Bernard Loiseau, who committed
suicide when he failed to meet his own rigid standards of professional achievement. His
obsessive fears and perfectionism were tied, in particular, to critical reviews of his
restaurant. When he (incorrectly) believed that the restaurant was about to lose its 3-star
rating, the highest rating in France, his self-esteem plummeted and he felt that he could
not go on. In the video Loiseau’s wife talks about how she had interpreted his
preoccupations, and how she is now affected by the suicide.
*Version available as a STUDENT VIDEO ACTIVITY under the title:
Case of the “3-Star” Chef: Fame Is No Protection
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Video 62
SUICIDE BY TEENS AND YOUNG ADULTS
Length: 6:15 minutes
Source: “Youth Suicide” CBS News (CBS News)
Description: This video examines the high rate of suicide among teenagers and collegeaged people, and how suicide can be prevented. A man who survived a suicide attempt at
the Golden Gate Bridge describes the regret he felt the instant he jumped. Cornell
president David Skorton describes programs his university put in place after several
students committed suicide. Jamie Tworkowski’s organization To Write Love on Her
Arms, which aims to provide hope and aid to the depressed, suicidal, and addicted, is
profiled. The video also presents the work of Laurie Flynn, executive director of the
screening organization TeenScreen. All of the individuals profiled discuss the importance
of eliminating the stigma against seeking help and offering depressed people the
opportunity to feel that someone is listening.
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Video 63
*ANTIDEPRESSANTS, SUICIDE, AND
THE “BLACK BOX” DECISION
Length: 3:15 minutes
Source: CBS Evening News; CBS Early Show (CBS News)
Description: This video looks at the controversy concerning the risk of suicide in young
people who take antidepressant drugs. First, the video features a 2004 television news
report announcing the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s decision to add “black box”
warnings to antidepressant medications—warnings that alert users to a link between
antidepressant drug use by some children and suicide. Next the video features a later
news report about a study suggesting that the benefits of antidepressants for children
outweigh their risks.
*Version available as a STUDENT VIDEO ACTIVITY under the title:
Antidepressants: A Suicidal Risk?
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Video 64
SUICIDE AND THE PEOPLE LEFT BEHIND:
SURVIVORS’ GUILT AND ANGER
Length: 8:00 minutes
Source: “The Life and Death of Clay Hunt” 60 Minutes (CBS News)
Description: This video presents a case study of suicide, and also explores the emotions
of people left behind, particularly guilt and anger. Clay Hunt, a combat veteran who had
been wounded in Iraq, is profiled and seen in interviews. Unable to handle his
posttraumatic stress disorder, depression, and anxiety, as well as the survivor’s guilt he
felt about friends who had died in the war, he shot himself to death at his home in Texas.
His parents, friends, and fellow veterans discuss him and his struggles, as well as their
own struggles. Each person interviewed blames himself or herself for letting Clay down,
and also express their anger at Clay for his suicide.
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Video 65
*TERMINAL ILLNESS AND SUICIDE
Length: 4:20 minutes
Source: Before I Die (BBC Motion Gallery)
Description: The right (or not) to commit suicide is a major issue in both society and the
clinical field. Public support for this right is strongest in connection with great pain and
terminal illness. In this video, two terminally ill adults and their family members discuss
the deaths that they are facing. One individual, an elderly man dying of cancer, says that
he would prefer to be euthanized and explains that he does not fear death, while his
daughter describes the strain of dealing with his situation. Another individual, a single
mother in her forties dying of cancer, is not suicidal. She describes her fears for her
children. The children also describe how devastated they are by their mother's illness.
*Version available as a STUDENT VIDEO ACTIVITY under the title:
Terminal Illness and Suicide
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Video 66
THE FACE OF ANOREXIA:
MODEL ISABELLE CARO
Length: 4:25 minutes
Source: “The Face of Anorexia” CBS Early Show (CBS News)
Description: This video presents a powerful case study of anorexia nervosa. Model and
actress Isabelle Caro is interviewed about her devastating struggle with anorexia nervosa.
Caro had posed for a shocking billboard photograph in a campaign against anorexia,
about which she says she has no regrets. She discusses her traumatic childhood, her many
hospitalizations as a result of her eating disorder, and her desperate struggle to recover
after realizing that she was in serious danger of dying. She describes her life at the time
of the video, still dangerously underweight but struggling to gain weight, undergoing
psychotherapy, and needing to re-learn how to eat. She discusses her optimism for the
future.
Several years after this interview, Isabelle Caro died at the age of twenty-eight
after a two-month hospitalization for respiratory disease. It is believed that her death was
due to immunodeficiency as a result of her anorexia. Two months after her death, her
mother took her own life. Caro’s story is a powerful demonstration of the devastating
effects anorexia nervosa can have on its victims and those who care about them
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Video 67
*OVERCOMING ANOREXIA NERVOSA
Length: 3:20 minutes
Source: “Slim Chance” 48 Hours (CBS News)
Description: This video demonstrates the symptoms of a person with anorexia nervosa,
including distorted cognitions, a need for control, perfectionism, and physical changes.
The video also shows a comprehensive inpatient treatment program for persons with
eating disorders, where multiple interventions are combined.
*Version available as a STUDENT VIDEO ACTIVITY under the title:
Anorexia Nervosa: Not for Women Only
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Video 68
*WOMAN WITH BULIMIA NERVOSA
Length: 3:03 minutes
Source: The Waist Land: Eating Disorders in America (Coronet/MTI)
Description: This video focuses on a young woman with bulimia nervosa, including her
binge behaviors and purge behaviors, origins of her disorder, cognitive and other
features, and impact of the disorder.
*Version available as a STUDENT VIDEO ACTIVITY under the title:
Imprisoned by an Eating Disorder
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Video 69
MAN WITH BUILIMIA NERVOSA
Length: 4:08 minutes
Source: “Slim Chance” 48 Hours (CBS News)
Description: This video focuses on the psychological issues, symptoms, and treatment of
a man with bulimia nervosa. His obsession with weight is tied to having been the victim
of traumatic teasing (earlier in his life) and his intense desire to fit in. The challenges for
men with eating disorders are also examined, particularly the social stigma of having a
disorder that is typically associated with females and the resulting reluctance to admit a
need for treatment.
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Video 70
PRO-ANOREXIA WEBSITES
Length: 3:45 minutes
Source: CBS Early Show (CBS News)
Description: This video looks at the controversial subject of websites that are believed to
condone and promote eating disorders. In particular, the video profiles a woman with
anorexia nervosa who describes her struggle against the disorder. The woman helps run a
website for people with anorexia nervosa that she argues provides a supportive
community and helps people overcome their disorders. However, critics of this and
similar Internet sites argue that users of such websites often exchange information about
how to maintain and expand their eating disorders—thus promoting rather than
combating their dysfunctional eating patterns.
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Video 71
*EATING AND WEIGHT GAIN:
A ROLE FOR FIDGETING
Length: 3:35 minutes
Source: “Fatbusters” Horizon (BBC Motion Gallery)
Description: This video highlights various factors that may affect eating and weight gain
(or loss), from heightened activity to conditioning to genetics. The video features a study
conducted at the Mayo Clinic in which participants were subjected to a “slob regime”, in
which they spent two months overindulging in food and engaging in no exercise. The
results revealed that some of the participants gained much less weight than others even
though all of the participants had similar metabolic rates. Beyond genetic factors, the
researchers discovered that the thinner individuals generally fidget, or move
unconsciously, much more than most other people of their age and background.
*Version available as a STUDENT VIDEO ACTIVITY under the title:
Weight Gain: A Surprise Factor
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Video 72
COLLEGE BINGE DRINKING
Length: 4:35 minutes
Source: “Binge College Daze” 48 Hours (CBS News)
Description: This video looks at the issue of college binge drinking, which is alarmingly
widespread. Various college students are interviewed about their binge drinking habits,
and they weigh in on why they regularly drink to excess. The video also profiles the case
of a college student who died following a drinking binge to celebrate his twenty-first
birthday. The video further examines the dangers of binge drinking and the misguided
thinking found among binge drinkers.
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Video 73
IN SEARCH OF ALCOHOLISM GENES
Length: 6:10 minutes
Source: “Miracle Cure?: A Decade of the Human Genome” Horizon (BBC Motion
Gallery)
Description: This video explores research into potential genetic components of
alcoholism, and the role animal testing can play in this research. The video presents the
case of a recovering alcoholic individual named Tom. Tom observes lab research with
mice that suggests alcoholism is roughly half genetic and half environmentally based.
Tom then undergoes a series of genetic tests to see whether he has any of a series of
genes that genome studies have identified as being associated with alcoholism. Dr. Peter
Donnelly of Oxford talks Tom through the research results, which show that he has some
genetic markers associated with alcoholism, and thus an increased genetic risk for
alcoholism.
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Video 74
*COCAINE USE DISORDER AND TREATMENT:
SINKING AND RECOVERING
Length: 3:24 minutes
Source: The Mind, Second Edition (Thirteen, WNET And Worth Publishers)
Description: According to DSM-5, people who abuse and/or physically depend on
substances are displaying a substance use disorder. In this video, a man with cocaine use
disorder describes his history of cocaine abuse and dependence, which ruined his
personal life and professional career. Now, no longer addicted, he also describes his
treatment, recovery, and successful climb back. The video indicates that one feature of
his recovery is implicit aversion therapy, in which he keeps recalling and picturing the
life of ruin associated with drug misuse whenever he feels desires or cravings for a drug.
*Version available as a STUDENT VIDEO ACTIVITY under the title:
Craving for Cocaine: A Substance Use Disorder
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Video 75
METHAMPHETAMINE:
A POWERFUL DEPENDENCE
Length: 4:35 minutes
Source: “Epidemic in the Heartland” 60 Minutes (CBS News)
Description: This video explores methamphetamine abuse and dependence – a rising
epidemic in the United States. The video explores how methamphetamine use affects
brain activity and the nature and severity of methamphetamine dependence. It features
both law enforcement officials and a former methamphetamine addict discussing the
drug’s effects. The video also describes the ease with which methamphetamine can be
manufactured from over-the-counter medications, particularly those containing
pseudoephedrine (the key ingredient in methamphetamine).
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Video 76
*CHEMICALLY-INDUCED HALLUCINATIONS:
STUDIES OF ANESTHETIC DRUGS
Length: 3:40 minutes
Source: “The Final Mystery” Brain Story (BBC Motion Gallery)
Description: In this video, a researcher examines how a low dose of the anesthetic
ketamine affects brain activity and, in turn, produces hallucinations. It is hypothesized
that the drug may weaken or modify communication between neurons, resulting in
hallucinations and mood enhancement.
*Version available as a STUDENT VIDEO ACTIVITY under the title:
Hallucinations and the Brain
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Video 77
MISUSE OF RITALIN AND OTHER STIMULANT DRUGS
Length: 7:30 minutes
Source: “Boosting Brain Power” 60 Minutes (CBS News)
Description: This video investigates the misuse of stimulant drugs, particularly among
college students. A group of college students describe the misuse of Adderall, a stimulant
used to treat ADHD, by their friends and classmates. They describe the effects of the
drug and the reasons students take it to aid in their studies. Nora Volkow, the director of
the National Institute on Drug Abuse, discusses her research on the effects of stimulants
like Ritalin on the sleep-deprived brain. She discusses the downsides of stimulant misuse,
such as addiction and possible psychosis. Psychologist Martha Farah of the University of
Pennsylvania demonstrates her research on stimulant drug users, testing visual
memorization, creativity, and math skills. In a number of cases, those taking stimulant
drugs actually often perform more poorly on these tests than those not taking the drugs,
even though they report that the drugs are making the tests seem easier.
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Video 78
ADDICTION TO PAINKILLERS
Length: 5:15 minutes
Source: “Teenage Pill Abuse” (CBS News) and “Prescription Pill Abuse” (CBS News)
Description: This video explores prescription painkiller addiction, presenting several case
studies. A teenager describes how stealing medication from her parents’ medicine cabinet
let to a devastating addiction. Another teenager describes the variety of different
painkillers she was abusing. A man describes his overwhelming addiction to pain
medication and Xanax, which stemmed from serious injuries as the result of an accident.
He describes his reluctance to seek treatment, fearing the loss of his job. The video
demonstrates that people’s inaccurate perceptions that prescription medication misuse is
relatively safe (as opposed to street drug use) has led to a growing incidence of
prescription pill addiction.
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Video 79
ADDICTION TO CANNABIS
Length: 2:45 minutes
Source: “Cannabis: The Evil Weed” Horizon (BBC Motion Gallery)
Description: This video presents a case study of cannabis addiction. A man describes the
twenty-year history of his abuse of cannabis, which he began in his early twenties to fit in
with friends. He describes how he now spends the majority of most days smoking
marijuana, with only the occasional brief walk to break up the routine. He discusses how
he’s constantly thinking about smoking. He also mentions the feelings of powerlessness
and self-loathing that he experiences with this addiction.
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Video 80
CANNABIS AND THE BRAIN
Length: 7:00 minutes
Source: “Cannabis: The Evil Weed” Horizon (BBC Motion Gallery)
Description: This video shows emerging research into the effects of cannabis on the
brain. Dr. Garth Terry explains and demonstrates his research into the activity of
cannabinoid receptors in the brain, which serve as regulators for neurotransmitters and
also contribute to the effects of cannabis in the brain, such as euphoria and anxiety. Dr.
Zerrin Atakan shows her research into the effects of THC on the brain areas that control
behavior. She finds that in those who have taken THC, areas of the prefrontal cortex that
are normally active in controlling and inhibiting behavior are inactive. She suggests this
inactivity may be responsible for the paranoia sometimes associated with cannabis use, as
it may lead to misinterpretations of various stimuli.
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Video 81
IS CANNABIS AN ENTRY DRUG?
Length: 3:55 minutes
Source: “Cannabis: The Evil Weed” Horizon (BBC Motion Gallery)
Description: This video looks at the much-debated question of whether cannabis use
makes users more likely to become addicted to other, stronger drugs like cocaine and
heroin. It features the animal research of Steven Goldberg of the National Institute on
Drug Abuse. Two groups of rats, one that has been exposed to THC and one that has not,
are given the opportunity to take heroin in a laboratory setting. The research shows that
the rats that have been exposed to cannabis initially take larger and more frequent doses
of heroin. Goldberg suggests this is due to a predisposed tolerance to heroin’s effects
from the exposure to the cannabis. However, rats from both groups display addictive
behavior in order to receive heroin, suggesting that cannabis use, despite leading to an
initial tolerance to heroin’s effects, does not particularly predispose the user to addiction
to harder drugs. Goldberg concludes that cannabis’s connection to other drug use is
primarily social rather than biological.
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Video 82
*THE MEDICAL USE OF MARIJUANA
Length: 4:05 minutes
Source: “Cannabis: The Evil Weed” Horizon (BBC Motion Gallery) and “Legalizing
Marijuana” CBS Sunday Morning (CBS News)
Description: This video features the medical use of marijuana, including the case of a
woman who uses legalized marijuana to treat chronic pain after an accident has left her
partially paralyzed. As the video clarifies, there is much debate concerning the use of
marijuana for medical purposes. The video also shows the case of a woman who uses
marijuana to treat numerous health issues, and who is involved in a Supreme Court Case
fighting for patients’ right to use marijuana for medicinal purposes and for suppliers to be
protected from arrest.
*Version available as a STUDENT VIDEO ACTIVITY under the title:
The Medical Use of Marijuana
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Video 83
POOR SELF-CONTROL AND THE BRAIN:
THE RESEARCH OF NORA VOLKOW
Length: 5:45 minutes
Source: “Hooked” 60 Minutes (CBS News)
Description: This video explores the work of Nora Volkow, a pioneering researcher on
addiction who is the director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse. She demonstrates
and discusses her MRI studies on the brains of drug addicts. Through this work, she
demonstrates how drug use causes changes in the brain, affecting dopamine receptors and
areas that control free will. She believes this research explains why it is so hard for
addicts to stop using drugs, and she compares this to the struggles experienced by
overeaters. Her work has helped alter the public perception of drug addiction,
highlighting the biochemical roadblocks addicts face in attempting to break their habits.
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Video 84
*GAMBLING DISORDER AND THE BRAIN’S PLEASURE CENTER
Length: 5:20 minutes
Source: “Seeking Perfection” Obsessions (BBC Motion Gallery)
Description: DSM-5 considers gambling disorder, sometimes called compulsive
gambling, to be an addiction, much like substance use disorder is an addiction. This
controversial notion that behaviors can, in fact, be addictive is supported by research
demonstrating that the same areas of the brain may play a key role in both behavioral
addictions and substance addictions. This video focuses on research at the University of
Minnesota into the causes and treatment of compulsive gambling and other apparent
addictive behaviors, including the role of the brain’s pleasure center. The video also
features a man who takes a drug to help treat his gambling addiction, a drug that seems to
help dampen the pleasure associated with his pathological behavior.
*Version available as a STUDENT VIDEO ACTIVITY under the title:
Gambling Disorder: A Behavioral Addiction
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Video 85
GAMBLING DISORDER AND SLOT MACHINES:
BIOLOGICAL OR PSYCHOLOGICAL?
Length: 5:40 minutes
Source: “The Big Gamble” 60 Minutes (CBS News)
Description: This video examines gambling disorder, which DSM-5 classifies as an
addiction. It focuses on the way people may become addicted to the playing of slot
machines. The video features several gambling addiction experts, including Natasha
Schull of MIT and Robert Breen and Henry Lasieur of Rhode Island Hospital, who
discuss how gambling addiction displays many of the same features as substance
addiction, including physical withdrawal effects. Schull describes how modern slot
machines are designed to be psychologically addictive. Brain research is shown that
demonstrates that playing slot machines can have many of the same effects on the brain
as addictive drugs. Two women whose slot machine use escalated into gambling disorder
are interviewed – one who lost her entire life savings and one who was arrested for
embezzling hundreds of thousands of dollars from her employer.
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Video 86
*INTERNET ADDICTION:
A CROSS-CULTURAL PHENOMENON
Length: 4:20 minutes
Source: CBS Early Show; CBS Evening News (CBS News)
Description: DSM-5 has recommended that certain dysfunctional patterns of Internet use
be considered for possible inclusion in future revisions of DSM-5. This video looks at the
issue of excessive Internet use and the effect of excessive computer use in countries
across the world. The video first spotlights the United States, where college students
describe how much time they spend on social networking websites and how their Internet
use often distracts their attention from their studies. The video then shows a controversial
"boot camp" in China where children and young adults are sent to be treated for excessive
Internet use.
*Version available as a STUDENT VIDEO ACTIVITY under the title:
Is Internet Addiction a Clinical Disorder?
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Video 87
ADDICTIVE GAME PLAYING
Length: 5:45 minutes
Source: “Ben Alexander Internet Addiction” and “Deprogramming Addiction” (CBS
News)
Description: This video presents two case studies of video game addiction, a disorder
which is not yet included as an official diagnosis in the DSM-5, although it is being
considered for possible inclusion in future revisions of DSM-5. Two different young men
describe the devastating effects that their total obsession with video games, such as
“World of Warcraft,” had on their lives. The two individuals describe the social and
emotional rewards they received from playing the games, as well as the loss of control
they experienced when playing the games became the only activity in their lives. At the
time of the video, both young men were recovering from their addictions at inpatient
treatment centers, which are still relatively rare in the treatment of cases of video game
overuse.
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Video 88
SEX ADDICTION:
FACT OR FICTION?
Length: 5:30 minutes
Source: “Cover Story: Sex Addiction” (CBS News)
Description: This video examines the debate in the mental health field over “sexual
addiction,” a diagnosis that does not appear in the DSM-5. Dr. Patrick Carnes, the
executive director of the Gentle Path sexual addiction treatment program at Pine Grove
Behavioral Center in Mississippi, forcefully and emotionally makes the case for the
validity of the diagnosis. Dr. Jack Drescher, known for his work on gender identity,
makes the case that sex addiction is “a made-up diagnosis,” imposing a moralistic
judgment on sexual behavior. The video profiles a man who recounts the devastation
wrought in his life by his sexual compulsions. In addition, referencing her past sexual
behavior, a woman makes the case that sex addiction is the same as any other addiction.
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Video 89
*ATTITUDES TOWARD CASUAL SEX:
DO MEN AND WOMEN DIFFER?
Length: 3:25 minutes
Source: “Deepest Desires” Human Instinct (BBC Motion Gallery)
Description: As the textbook discusses, a person’s attitudes toward sex can affect his or
her sexual behaviors and enjoyment. Correspondingly, a key factor in many sexual
dysfunctions is dysfunctional attitudes toward sex. A topic receiving increasing
investigation is how men’s and women's attitudes toward sex differ. This video shows a
study that investigates whether men and women have different attitudes toward casual
sex and sexual partners. In the study, attractive research assistants approach strangers of
the opposite sex and pretend to try to proposition them for sex.
*Version available as a STUDENT VIDEO ACTIVITY under the title:
Attitudes toward Casual Sex: Do Men and Women Differ?
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Video 90
*THE DEVELOPMENT, USE, AND MISUSE OF VIAGRA
Length: 5:10 minutes
Source: “Pill Poppers” Horizon (BBC Motion Gallery)
Description: This video depicts the history of the research that led to the development of
the popular erectile dysfunction drug Viagra, as well as the aftermath of its release into
the marketplace. The pharmaceutical company Pfizer was trying to develop a drug to
treat angina, and the drug was actually not considered a success, when test subjects began
reporting frequent erections. Chris Weyman, the Pfizer researcher who was involved in
this development, describes the brain functions involved in normal erectile response and
how Pfizer researchers applied this to the research that led to the release of Viagra. Some
clinical theorists interviewed in the video raise concerns about the promotion and use of
such drugs for sexual enhancement rather than for treating sexual dysfunction as
originally intended.
*Version available as a STUDENT VIDEO ACTIVITY under the title:
Viagra: Pathway to Sexual Happiness?
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Video 91
*THE BOY WHO WAS TURNED INTO A GIRL?
Length: 8:20 minutes
Source: “Dr. Money And The Boy With No Penis” Horizon; “The Boy Who Was Tuned
Into A Girl” Horizon (BBC Motion Gallery)
Description: This video considers whether sexual reassignment in a "normal” child is
appropriate of even possible. It tells the tragic story of the Reimer family, a Canadian
family who in the 1960s had twin boys. When one of the boys was being circumcised, a
hospital mishap resulted in the destruction of most of his penis. His parents eventually
sought the council of psychologist John Money, a sexual reassignment specialist, who
believed through his previous work that gender identity is primarily learned. Money
advised the family to have their son undergo a sex change operation and to then rear him
as a girl (and to keep the child unaware that she had been born male). The segment
features interviews with the Reimer family (including David Reimer, the boy himself,
interviewed as an adult) after he had chosen to return to his original male sexual identity.
The family describes the terribly unhappy childhood and adolescence suffered by
"Brenda" Reimer, as the child was called after his surgical sex change. Unhappy through
most of his life, David Reimer eventually committed suicide, following a series of
unfortunate circumstances.
*Version available as a STUDENT VIDEO ACTIVITY under the title:
Gender Dysphoria: “The Boy Who Was Turned Into a Girl”
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Video 92
RENEE RICHARDS:
A LONG JOURNEY
Length: 6:15 minutes
Source: “Changing Times” CBS Sunday Morning (CBS News)
Description: This video presents a case study in sexual reassignment surgery. It profiles
Renee Richards, a well-known ophthalmologist and champion tennis player who was
born a male named Richard Raskind. In 1975, Raskind had sexual reassignment surgery
and became a woman. As Renee Richards, she achieved further success in the world of
tennis, and when she fought for and received the right to compete in the U. S. Open as a
woman she became an inspiration to transgender individuals and other minority groups.
The video features interviews with Renee Richards from the present day and also the
1970s, discussing her life and the emotional aftermath of her surgery. Richards’ son from
before the surgery, who still calls Richards his “father,” discusses his feelings about
Richards’ surgery and achievements. Tennis star Billie Jean King also discusses her
history with Richards and her admiration for her.
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Video 93
*WOMAN WITH HALLUCINATIONS
Length: 3:10 minutes
Source: Madness: In Two Minds (BBC Motion Gallery)
Description: In this video, a woman with schizophrenia experiences, and describes in
detail, hallucinations and their powerful impact upon her life.
*Version available as a STUDENT VIDEO ACTIVITY under the title:
Hallucinations: “The Voices Won’t Leave Me Alone”
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Video 94
*YOUNG MAN WITH SCHIZOPHRENIA
Length: 3:05 minutes
Source: “Schizophrenia” (CBS News)
Description: This video focuses on a young man with schizophrenia. The young man’s
mother describes the first appearance of his disorder, which began with her son
withdrawing from her. Eventually he admitted that he was experiencing auditory
hallucinations, a common symptom of schizophrenia. The young man himself describes
the voices he hears – one male and one female, often critical of him – and the effect that
his disorder has had on his life. His restricted affect is demonstrated and he discusses how
medication can exacerbate that symptom. He describes his optimism that with treatment
and medication he is getting his life on the right track.
*Version available as a STUDENT VIDEO ACTIVITY under the title:
A Clinical Picture of Schizophrenia
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Video 95
CAN CANNABIS USE TRIGGER SCHIZOPHRENIA?
Length: 5:10 minutes
Source: “Cannabis: The Evil Weed: Horizon (BBC Motion Gallery)
Description: This video examines the question of whether cannabis use can trigger
schizophrenia in an individual. The video presents a case study of a teenager with
schizophrenia who began hearing voices while under the influence of cannabis, and
eventually even when not using cannabis. The voices spoke of grandiose ideas, such as
the idea that he was a god, and also gave him instructions. The young man was diagnosed
with schizophrenia and put on antipsychotic medication. He and his parents describe their
experiences. The video points out that while cannabis use, particularly heavy use, can
somewhat raise the likelihood of developing schizophrenia, establishing a clear link is
very difficult, because it is not clear whether the substance causes the disorder or whether
those with the disorder seek out cannabis in greater numbers.
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Video 96
*POSTPARTUM PSYCHOSIS:
WHY DID ANDREA YATES KILL HER FIVE CHILDREN?
Length: 7:03 minutes
Source: “Why Did She Do It?” 60 Minutes (CBS News)
Description: On the morning of June 20, 2001, Andrea Yates drowned her five small
children in the bathtub. This powerful video examines this tragic case. It demonstrates
her previous loving devotion to her children, documents her past history of postpartum
depression and postpartum psychosis, looks at the failures of the medical and mental
health fields, and raises questions about the decision made by Mrs. Yates and her
husband to have a fifth child. Professors should emphasize the important distinction
between postpartum psychosis and postpartum depression (which is more common).
Although Mrs. Yates suffered from each syndrome, it was the postpartum psychosis that
apparently triggered this tragedy.
*Version available as a STUDENT VIDEO ACTIVITY under the title:
Postpartum Psychosis: Why Did Andrea Yates Kill her Five Children?
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Video 97
*PATIENTS BEFORE AND AFTER PREFRONTAL LOBOTOMY, 1944
Length: 5:50 minutes
Source: Prefrontal Lobotomy In Chronic Schizophrenia, 1944 (A. E. Bennett, Bishop
Clarkson Memorial Hospital, Psychiatric Department) Courtesy: History Of Medicine
Division, National Library Of Medicine
Description: This video shows historical footage of patients before and after receiving
lobotomies. Although each case was pointed to as a success at the time, it is obvious,
looking back, that the postoperative behavior and functioning of the patients were hardly
ideal or problem-free.
*Version available as a STUDENT VIDEO ACTIVITY under the title:
The Lobotomy: Far From a Cure
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Video 98
*OVERCOMING SCHIZOPHRENIA:
JOHN NASH’S BEAUTIFUL MIND
Length: 4:50 minutes
Source: “John Nash’s Beautiful Mind” 60 Minutes (CBS News)
Description: Perhaps the most celebrated case of schizophrenia in recent years is that of
John Nash, the brilliant mathematician who struggled with this disorder for 35 years and
then was awarded the Nobel Prize for work he had done as a doctoral student back in
1951 at Princeton University. This video follows Nash’s ordeal and triumph, which
inspired the award-winning 2001 movie A Beautiful Mind. Perhaps the most powerful
part of this video is Nash’s interaction with his adult son, also a mathematician, who also
suffers from schizophrenia.
*Version available as a STUDENT VIDEO ACTIVITY under the title:
Overcoming Schizophrenia: John Nash’s Beautiful Mind
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Video 99
*SEVERE MENTAL DISORDERS AND DRUG ABUSE:
THE SO-CALLED “WILD MAN OF WEST 96TH STREET”
Length: 5:18 minutes
Source: “Wild Man of West 96th Street” 60 Minutes (CBS News)
Description: During the early 1990s, Larry Hogue, nicknamed the “Wild Man of West
96th Street” by his neighbors, was the best known mentally ill chemical abuser (MICA)
in the United States. This video, filmed in 1992, focuses on Hogue and his struggles with
both psychosis and substance abuse, his impact upon community residents, and the
failures of the mental health system and the criminal justice system to address his severe
problem.
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*Version available as a STUDENT VIDEO ACTIVITY under the title:
Treating MICAs: “Wild Man of West 96th Street”
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Video 100
*PERSONALITY AND THE BRAIN
Length: 5:30 minutes
Source: “All in the Mind” Brain Story (BBC Motion Gallery)
Description: Clinical researchers do not fully understand the causes of personality
differences or personality disorders. Biological factors may play a key role. This video
explores personality, including its neural links, by focusing on the case of a man who has
a degenerative brain disorder. The video describes the changes in his personality and
creativity, and ties those changes to changes in his brain. Various explanations for
personality changes as a result of brain disorders are explored.
*Version available as a STUDENT VIDEO ACTIVITY under the title:
Can Brain Damage Cause a Personality Disorder?
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Video 101
*DO VIDEO GAMES TEACH PEOPLE TO BE VIOLENT?
Length: 4:30 minutes
Source: “Grand Theft Auto” 60 Minutes (CBS News)
Description: This video looks at the controversial question of whether video games help
produce violent and aggressive behavior in teens. It focuses on the highly publicized case
of an 18-year-old, who killed three police officers in an Alabama police station,
reportedly after having been influenced by the violent video game Grand Theft Auto. The
video explores a lawsuit that followed the shootings against the makers of the video
game, which alleged that the game conditioned the teenager to react violently in real life.
The video considers the theory that because teenage brains are not fully developed and
impulse control is not yet consistently available to teens, a game such as this can
influence violent behavior if other risk factors are also present.
*Version available as a STUDENT VIDEO ACTIVITY under the title:
Do Video Games Teach People to Be Violent?
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Video 102
*RAGE:
ONE MAN’S STORY AND TREATMENT
Length: 10:05 minutes
Source: “Personality” Human Mind” (BBC Motion Gallery)
Description: DSM-5 has suggested that a “dimensional” approach to the diagnosis of
personality disorders should be considered for possible use in future revisions of DSM-5.
In such an approach, the presence of a single, dysfunctional trait ― such as anger ―
could result in a diagnosis of personality disorder if that trait caused severe impairment.
This video focuses on the symptoms of and treatment for a man with intense and
distressing anger. His angry outbursts, which typically occur when he is driving, are often
followed by feelings of shame and regret. The video shows two sessions of anger
management therapy.
*Version available as a STUDENT VIDEO ACTIVITY under the title:
Is Frequent Rage a Personality Disorder?
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Video 103
PSYCHOPATHY AND CRIMINAL BEHAVIOR
Length: 3:00 minutes
Source: The Mind, Second Edition (Thirteen, WNET And Worth Publishers)
Description: This video focuses on people with psychopathy (sociopathy) who commit
criminal behavior. One such individual discusses his behavior and the changes he has
experienced. In addition, Robert Hare, an expert on this pattern, discusses the issue of
whether psychopathy can be changed or treated, focusing on the ways in which most
treatments available for prisoners do not address the symptoms and functioning of those
prisoners with psychopathy.
*Version available as a STUDENT VIDEO ACTIVITY under the title:
Antisocial Personality Disorder: A Treatable Pattern?
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Video 104
BIOLOGICAL ROOTS OF SOCIOPATHY:
AN INSIDER’S VIEW
Length: 8:00 minutes
Source: “Are You Good or Evil?” Horizon (BBC Motion Gallery)
Description: This video looks at research into the biological roots of sociopathy –
research that became uncomfortably personal for Professor James Fallon. In the video,
Fallon discusses how his brain scan research identified abnormal brain functioning in the
orbital cortex and temporal lobes of sociopathic killers. He also discusses the 1993
discovery of the MAOA gene, which has been linked to aggression. Hearing family
stories about murders committed by some of his own ancestors (including Lizzie
Borden), he later performed brain scans on his family and found to his surprise that his
own brain functioning matched that of sociopathic murderers. Further tests showed that
he had the various genetic risk signs for violence. Upon reflection, Fallon concludes that
despite his biological indicators of sociopathy, his nurturing and happy childhood
prevented him from developing into a violent sociopathic individual. He further states
that childhood abuse, in combination with these genetic risk factors, can help lead to
violent and criminal adulthoods.
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Video 105
PSYCHOLOGY OF AN ASSASSIN:
THE SHOOTING OF ARIZONA CONGRESSWOMAN
GABBY GIFFFORDS
Length: 6:30 minutes
Source: “Descent Into Madness” 60 Minutes (CBS News)
Description: This video explores the psychology behind assassination by profiling the
case of Jared Lee Loughner, who killed six people and wounded fourteen others in an
attempt to assassinate United States congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords at a public event
in Tucson, Arizona, in 2011. Close friends of Loughner’s describe his personality, his
increasingly disordered beliefs, statements, and thinking, and his inscrutable grievances
against Giffords. The video also examines an extensive Secret Service study of assassins.
Prominent forensic psychologist Robert Fein, who headed the study, discusses common
behaviors, personality traits, and warning signs that can be predictive of assassination
attempts, which he says are rarely rooted solely in political motivations but rather spring
from psychological issues.
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Video 106
PSYCHOLOGY OF A SERIAL KILLER:
ANGEL OF DEATH
Length: 8:00 minutes
Source: “Angel of Death” 60 Minutes (CBS News)
Description: This video provides a chilling look into the mind of a serial killer who some
suspect may actually be the most prolific serial killer in American history. The video
shows an interview with Charles Cullen, a nurse who murdered dozens, perhaps
hundreds, of patients at various medical facilities at which he worked during a sixteenyear career. He has admitted to forty murders, but some investigators believe he was
responsible for many more deaths. In the interview, Cullen seems devoid of emotion and
does not offer any satisfactory answers to questions about why he murdered some people
who were neither terminally ill nor suffering, despite his vague claims that his murders
were committed as acts of mercy. He also appears somewhat unwilling to fully accept the
notion that he is a murderer or serial killer. An author who interviewed and wrote a book
about Cullen is also interviewed, and he suggests that Cullen’s murders were a way to
assert control over a very unhappy life, and an avenue by which Cullen could feel
important.
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Video 107
THEORY OF MIND:
TAKING THE PERSPECTIVE OF OTHERS
Length: 1:40 minutes
Source: “Will to Win” Human Instinct (BBC Motion Gallery)
Description: This video focuses on the Theory of Mind principle. It features a research
study in which children are asked to hide candy from an adult. Older children can do the
task, but children under the age of three years are completely unable to do so. This
research indicates that at that younger age, the children’s brains have not yet developed to
the point where they can understand what another person can or cannot see.
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Video 108
PARENTAL DEATH AND YOUNG CHILDREN:
THE PSYCHOLOGICAL IMPACT
Length: 7:20 minutes
Source: “How Children Mourn” CBS Sunday Morning (CBS News)
Description: This video explores how children react psychologically to the death of a
parent. Various children who have lost a parent discuss their deceased parents, describe
how they died, discuss their reactions to the death, and discuss life without the missing
parent. Dr. Phyllis Silverman discusses unique features of the ways children process
death – they often have difficulty understanding the finality of death and that the parent
will never come back. At the same time, she says it is untrue to suggest, as some do, that
children are too young to grieve or understand that they have lost a parent. Mary Owen of
the Wendt Center for Loss and Healing discusses the importance of avoiding pleasant
sounding euphemisms when discussing a parent’s death with a child.
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Video 109
SELECTIVE MUTISM
Length: 4:40 minutes
Source: “Selective Mutism and Therapy” (CBS News)
Description: This video presents a case study of the social anxiety disorder known as
selective mutism. A young girl in the fourth grade who only speaks to her family and one
or two close friends is profiled. Her parents describe how their daughter at the age of four
stopped speaking outside the house, and their struggle to find an explanation. They
describe the methods by which their daughter gets by in school – pre-taped book reports,
a special notebook to ask the teacher simple questions, and whispers to her best friend in
the class. They also describe the treatment their daughter has been undergoing since she
received the diagnosis of selective mutism. The girl is interviewed, and able to whisper
answers timidly for her mother to repeat to the interviewer, which is representative of real
progress. Her ongoing treatment seeks to increase her self-esteem and to eventually help
her speak to everyone.
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Video 110
GIRLS BULLYING GIRLS
Length: 3:40 minutes
Source: “Girls Bullying Girls” (CBS News)
Description: This video examines the phenomenon of girls bullying other girls, and the
lasting impact it can have. Several young girls describe their experiences of being bullied,
including one girl who describes how her torment by other girls in the past escalated to
physical violence. Although often downplayed, while bullying perpetrated by boys gets
more attention, girl against girl bullying is described by its victims as ranging from false
and defamatory rumors to insults to physical violence. One school is shown providing an
entire class for girls about this phenomenon, offering the girls advice and also an
opportunity to be heard about their experiences.
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Video 111
CANNABIS USE AND MEMORY EFFECTS:
ANIMAL RESEARCH AND IMPLICATIONS
Length: 5:00 minutes
Source: “Cannabis: The Evil Weed” Horizon (BBC Motion Gallery)
Description: This video tackles the question of whether cannabis can have long-lasting
effects on the memory of someone who uses it. The video shows the research of Cathy
Fernandes on mice to explore this question. Three groups of mice are placed in a maze
requiring them to use memory skills as cues to solve it – one group exposed to cannabis
at a very young age but now free of it, one group first exposed to cannabis at the
equivalent of the human age fifteen or so, and one control group not exposed to cannabis.
The mice that had been exposed to cannabis at a very young age show notable
impairment in memory function and are unable to find their way through the maze, while
the group first exposed in late adolescence do not display memory deficits. Fernandes
concludes that among younger people smoking marijuana, a difference of a year or two in
the age of first exposure can have a devastating and long-lasting effect on memory
functioning.
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Video 112
*ADHD: THE CASE OF LIAM
Length: 6:10 minutes
Source: “Living With ADHD” Horizon (BBC Motion Gallery)
Description: This video presents a case in which a young boy’s ADHD places a severe
strain on his family. The child’s impulsive behaviors repeatedly expose him to danger,
and he also is unable to obey instructions. A simple shopping trip becomes a nightmare
for his weary and, at times, frightened parents. The video examines the theory that
oppositional behavior in ADHD children develops as a response to repeated reprimands
for behavior they cannot control.
*Version available as a STUDENT VIDEO ACTIVITY under the title:
ADHD: A Family Problem
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Video 113
MEDICATING ADHD:
LIAM 5 YEARS LATER
Length: 2:40 minutes
Source: “Pill Poppers” Horizon (BBC Motion Gallery)
Description: This video takes another look at Liam, the child with ADHD profiled in
Video 112, after he has been medicated with Ritalin. Five years after the previous profile,
Liam is able to be calm and under control. Liam and his mother are both interviewed
describing the improvements in his behavior and life while on the medication. The video
describes how drugs for ADHD work in the brain, and the accidental discovery by
researchers of these effects.
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Video 114
*TWO FACES OF AUTISM SPECTRUM DISORDER
Length: 4:20 minutes
Source: “Does the MMR Jab Cause Autism?” Horizon (BBC Motion Gallery)
Description: This video focuses on two eleven-year-old boys who have autism spectrum
disorder. Their behavioral differences and similarities illustrate that this disorder is
characterized by a spectrum of dysfunctioning. Three common features of the disorder
are focused on: decreased capacity for social engagements, communication deficits, and
lack of imagination.
*Version available as a STUDENT VIDEO ACTIVITY under the title:
Two Faces of Autism Spectrum Disorder
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Video 115
*AUTISM SPECTRUM DISORDER:
A DIFFERENT PATTERN
Length: 6:15 minutes
Source: Born Premature (BBC Motion Gallery)
Description: This video focuses on the symptoms of a young boy with autism spectrum
disorder. The video focuses on his communication deficits and other symptoms. The
video also examines efforts to uncover the biological roots of his difficulties. In certain
ways, the child’s symptoms and history seem to differ from more traditional symptoms
and histories found in autism, but he would probably qualify for a diagnosis of autism
spectrum disorder under the DSM-5 classification system.
*Version available as a STUDENT VIDEO ACTIVITY under the title:
Suffering from Autism Spectrum Disorder
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Video 116
CURRENT RESEARCH INTO AUTISM SPECTRUM DISORDER
Length: 5:40 minutes
Source: “Where America Stands: Autism” CBS Reports (CBS News)
Description: This video profiles various strands of current research into autism spectrum
disorder, its causes, how to detect it early, and successful interventions. Three young
boys with autism, each participating in a different study, are profiled with their parents,
who discuss the difficulties they face and their sons’ specific symptoms. Dr. Geraldine
Dawson, of Autism Speaks, describes the rising incidence of autism spectrum disorder.
Several different research studies are shown: Dr. Hakon Hakonarson of Children’s
Hospital in Philadelphia has isolated a common gene among two-thirds of autistic people;
Dr. Tim Roberts, of the same hospital, has used research to determine that autistic people
process sounds more slowly than other people; Dr. Robert Schultz of the Center for
Autism Research is using MRI imaging to explore why the brains of autistic people don’t
make certain connections like other people’s brains; and Dr. Joe Piven of the University
of North Carolina is using infant brain imaging studies to examine whether early
detection can create a window of opportunity to intervene before the onset of
symptomatic behaviors.
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Video 117
DOES THE MMR VACCINE CAUSE
AUTISM SPECTRUM DISORDER?
Length: 6:40 minutes
Source: “Does the MMR Jab Cause Autism?” Horizon (BBC Motion Gallery)
Description: One of the field’s most heated controversies in recent years has centered on
whether MMR vaccines cause autism spectrum disorder. This video presents the case of a
young child who had apparently been developing normally but whose language and
learning skills then appeared to deteriorate following an MMR vaccination. The video
presents his mother’s observations and her belief that her son’s autism is indeed linked to
the vaccination he had received. The video then goes on to present studies that have
challenged the theory that MMR vaccinations have a link to the development of autism.
Moreover, in 2010, The Lancet, the journal that had published earlier research findings
supporting the MMR link, issued a full retraction after the British General Medical
Council upheld claims of unethical research practices and financial conflict of interest in
some of the early research on the MMR link to autism.
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Video 118
DR. IVAR LOVAAS TREATS A YOUNG AUTISTIC CHILD WITH
BEHAVIORAL INTERVENTION
Length: 3:20 minutes
Source: Behavioral Treatment of Autistic Children (Focus International, Inc.)
Description: In this video, Ivar Lovaas, a leader in the development of behavioral
treatments and programs for people with autism spectrum disorder, treats a young child
with the disorder. Using behavioral techniques, he is able to change some of the child’s
dysfunctional behaviors relatively quickly.
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Video 119
APPS FOR AUTISM:
THE USE OF iPADS
Length: 8:00 minutes
Source: “Apps for Autism” 60 Minutes (CBS News)
Description: This video demonstrates the impact new technologies, particularly the iPad,
are having on the lives and education of children with autism spectrum disorder. The
video demonstrates a number of apps designed with autistic people in mind, including
one that enables uncommunicative autistic people to “speak” by typing into the iPad, one
that enables autistic children to identify their emotions, and one that enables autistic
children to practice eye contact. The video shows teachers of autistic students using the
iPad as a learning tool, one that autistic students seem far more engaged with than other
toys or learning tools. A non-speaking autistic young man is interviewed via iPad, while
another astonishes his teacher with his vocabulary as revealed through an iPad app. Such
innovations point the way toward a possible future in which the iPad may be a critical
tool in educating and socializing those with autism spectrum disorder.
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Video 120
AUTISTIC PRODIGY
Length: 7:55 minutes
Source: “Autistic Prodigy” 60 Minutes (CBS News)
Description: This video presents a child with autism spectrum disorder who turns out to
be a prodigy, attending college courses at age ten. The boy and his parents are
interviewed, discussing his early symptoms and diagnosis, and the remarkable
improvements he has made in his autistic symptoms as he has nurtured his love of
learning and achieved great intellectual success. Some clinical observers might view the
boy as having savant abilities in physics and math, equipped with a photographic memory
that allows him to recite backward and forward long series of numbers he has just heard.
He also understands concepts; he is not just parroting from memory. Psychologist Joanne
Ruthsatz at Ohio State University discusses her belief in a link between autism and
prodigies.
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Video 121
*READING AND READING DISORDERS:
SPECIFIC LEARNING DISORDERS
Length: 4:20 minutes
Source: “Growing the Mind” Brain Story (BBC Motion Gallery)
Description: DSM-5’s new category, specific learning disorder, is applied to persons
with significant difficulties in the acquisition of reading, writing, arithmetic, or
mathematical reasoning skills. This video focuses on individuals with one such problem,
severe reading difficulties often called “dyslexia.” The video showcases research into the
process of learning to read, and offers insight into why some children have trouble
learning this important skill. One part of the video shows a poor reader learning to read
with the aid of a computer program. Because the child has trouble associating letters with
sounds – a critical part of learning to read – the program uses repetition to help him
associate sounds with letters. According to the video, brain research indicates that
particular areas of the brain are responsible for associating letters with sounds.
*Version available as a STUDENT VIDEO ACTIVITY under the title:
Severe Reading Difficulties: A “Specific Learning Disorder”
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Video 122
TOURETTE’S DISORDER AND MUSIC
Length: 5:45 minutes
Source: “Oliver Sacks: Tales of Music and the Brain” Imagine… (BBC Motion Gallery)
Description: This video demonstrates Tourette’s Disorder, listed in DSM-5 as one of the
neurodevelopmental disorders, and also explores the impact of music on the brain,
through a case from the files of Dr. Oliver Sacks. A young man with severe Tourette’s is
profiled, his symptoms very much in evidence. He describes his lifelong love of music,
and how playing the drums since a young age has helped him tremendously in coping
with his symptoms and living a functional life. He also describes how playing music
allows him to attain control over the intense rage and other strong emotions that he has
experienced as part of his Tourette’s Disorder.
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Video 123
DOWN SYNDROME, INTIMACY, AND MARRIAGE
Length: 7:35 minutes
Source: “Can We Get Married?” Wonderland (BBC Motion Gallery)
Description: This video features Down syndrome, focusing on intimate relationships
formed by people with the disorder. A couple, both of whom have Down syndrome, are
profiled, having moved in together after six years of dating. They are trying to decide
whether to marry, a decision that also has financial implications on the benefits they
receive. They ultimately decide not to marry, but reaffirm their deep and abiding love for
one another.
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Video 124
*COMPANIONSHIP AND SUPPORT:
PETS FILL THE VOID
Length: 4:35 minutes
Source: “Garden Of Eden” 48 Hours (CBS News)
Description: This video focuses on the psychological and physical benefits of providing
animal companions for elderly persons in a nursing facility. Similarly, interactions with
children and a warm and stimulating environment help nursing home residents achieve
greater psychological and physical health. We see in this video that such residents often
develop a greater sense of purpose in life and that the rates of illness and mortality at the
facility go down significantly.
*Version available as a STUDENT VIDEO ACTIVITY under the title:
Pets and the Elderly: The Impact of Companionship
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Video 125
*OLD AGE:
LEARNING AND MOVING AT THE SAME TIME
Length: 2:40 minutes
Source: “Growing the Mind” Brain Story (BBC Motion Gallery)
Description: DSM-5 includes a new category called “mild neurocognitive disorder,” a
modest decline in one or more areas of cognitive functioning that does not interfere with
independence. Some clinicians worry that aging people with normal cognitive declines
could mistakenly be diagnosed with this new label. This video examines how mental
resources are allotted differently in the young and the elderly.
*Version available as a STUDENT VIDEO ACTIVITY under the title:
Normal Aging Versus Mild Neurocognitive Disorder
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Video 126
*LIVING WITHOUT MEMORY
Length: 5:20 minutes
Source: Living Without a Memory (BBC Motion Gallery)
Description: According to DSM-5, people who experience substantial decline in one or
more cognitive areas, such as memory, attention, and planning, may receive a diagnosis
of major neurocognitive disorder, previously known as dementia. This video profiles a
man who has lost his short-term and long-term memory. Like others with a major
neurocognitive disorder, his cognitive deficits interfere with his capacity to be
independent. The video reveals the difficulties and emotional pain of living without
memory and also focuses on the experiences of family members who are caregivers. This
case also showcases some alternative techniques for coping with and working around
memory loss.
*Version available as a STUDENT VIDEO ACTIVITY under the title:
Living Without Memory: Major Neurocognitive Disorder
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Video 127
*ALZHEIMER’S DISEASE:
A CASE, RESEARCH, AND NEW DIRECTIONS
Length: 8:40 minutes
Source: “A New Day” CBS Sunday Morning (CBS News)
Description: This video explores current research on the symptoms and treatment of
Alzheimer’s disease and also focuses on a man with early-onset Alzheimer’s disease.
The video explores features of the disease that distinguish it from general aging, such as
excessive numbers of tangles and plaques in the brain. It also examines environmental
and psychological factors that may play roles in the development and progression of the
disease.
*Version available as a STUDENT VIDEO ACTIVITY under the title:
Suffering from Alzheimer’s Disease: Major Neurocognitive Disorder
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Video 128
PARKINSON’S DISEASE:
A CASE STUDY
Length: 4:10 minutes
Source: “Unlocking Parkinson’s” 60 Minutes (CBS News)
Description: This video focuses on a man with Parkinson’s disease whose medication
relieved certain symptoms of the disease but also created undesired effects that were
difficult to live with. The video examines his physical and psychological functioning
before and after a treatment procedure known as deep brain electrode stimulation. The
improvements in his functioning after the treatment procedure are dramatic.
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Video 129
BLOWS TO THE BRAIN:
FROM COMBAT TO FOOTBALL
Length: 7:35 minutes
Source: “Invisible Wounds” 60 Minutes (CBS News)
Description: This video explores the impact of traumatic brain injury, which is emerging
as a major research focus. The video profiles an Iraq war veteran who discusses his
symptoms and struggles after returning home. Though he was diagnosed with PTSD, his
symptoms actually stemmed from brain injuries he suffered due to concussions while in
Iraq. His professional life was negatively impacted, but he is greatly heartened to see
brain scans indicating damage, because he now feels that his symptoms are more
understandable. Another veteran bristles at having been called a malingerer when his
traumatic brain injury symptoms did not improve. Dr. David Hovda of the Brain Injury
Research Center at UCLA discusses the serious damage that even mild concussions can
cause, especially if a second concussion is suffered before the first one is totally healed.
He considers possible links between the symptoms of traumatic brain injury suffered by
combat veterans and the symptoms suffered by many ex-NFL players, an issue that has
recently gained attention.
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Video 130
*OUTPATIENT COMMITMENT:
FORCING PERSONS INTO MENTAL HEALTH TREATMENT
Length: 6:10 minutes
Source: “A Right That Could Be Wrong” 60 Minutes (CBS News)
Description: This video focuses on the development of a legal procedure, known as
“Kendra’s Law”, for forcing certain individuals with mental disorders into outpatient
treatment. The effectiveness and implications of such outpatient treatment are the source
of much debate. The video features interviews with individuals who have mental
disorders and their families about the legal procedure and its effect on them.
*Version available as a STUDENT VIDEO ACTIVITY under the title:
Forcing People into Mental Health Treatment
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Video 131
JAILING THE MENTALLY ILL
Length: 4:30 minutes
Source: “Prisons Become Dumping Ground For Mentally Ill” (CBS News) and “Mental
Illness Falling Through the Cracks” (CBS News)
Description: This video focuses on the treatment of mentally ill inmates in prison,
profiling several disturbed inmates and the family members of such individuals. The
video demonstrates how prison is far from an ideal therapeutic environment for mentally
ill persons. Psychiatrist E. Fuller Torrey, founder of the Treatment Advocacy Center, and
other mental health professionals describe how various factors – such as
deinstitutionalization, lack of funding, lack of laws to compel people into treatment, and
society’s lack of insight into persons with mental disorders ― have combined to turn
prison into, in effect, a “dumping ground for the mentally ill.”
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Video 132
*WHEN TREATMENT LEADS TO EXECUTION:
MENTAL HEALTH AND THE LAW
Length: 7:05 minutes
Source: “Doctor’s Dilemma” 60 Minutes (CBS News)
Description: This video examines whether a convicted murderer with paranoid
schizophrenia is competent enough for execution. If his symptoms are reduced through
psychotropic drug treatment and he becomes clearer cognitively, he will become eligible
for execution. The ethical and legal dilemmas that this poses for clinicians are explored.
*Version available as a STUDENT VIDEO ACTIVITY under the title:
When Treatment Leads to Execution: Mental Health and the Law
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