As the US approaches a century since entering World War I, director Sean Stone asks, “What happened to the American Century? What happened to America's ideal of progress?” Americans are feeling squeezed out of the traditional middle-class economy. He links America’s petrodollar…
An intimate and luminous examination of a 21st Century Woman.
Terminally ill patients and their families talk about cancer and dying. After a brief introduction dealing with the care of terminally ill people, five patients, their partners and families, talk intimately about cancer and death. The patients are from very different backgrounds and circumstances…
Two actual cases of family therapy. Rebecca, helped by a Jungian psychotherapist, grapples with her family experience and how it still obscures her vision of where she is going. And in a group session Barbara confronts the voices in her that told her she had no right to enjoy what life offers, and…
A mother, a daughter and a son explore their difficulties. Psychotherapists Susie Orbach and Luise Eichenbaum say our child-rearing practices create serious obstacles to close adult relationships in later life. A mother, a daughter and a son explore their difficulties in live therapy Although made…
Bio-energetic counsellors read states of mind from patients' posture. Examines the outward, physical expression of our thoughts and feelings. The way we walk, talk and hold ourselves, according to bio-energetic therapists, are strong indicators of our mental state and by examining their patients'…
Psychotherapy with a number of different individuals. Features a woman growing up against a background of poverty in working class Sheffield; a building worker who conquered isolation within a psychotherapy day centre in Islington, encouraged to produce a stunning series of paintings charting his…
A small boy refuses to go to school, and has therapy. Family Therapy: 14 year old Dominic refuses to go to school and the whole family go into therapy to try to sort out the problem. UK. Part of the ‘A Change of Mind’ series. Other parts are; The Child Inside,A Sense of Self, Putting…
A model therapeutic community. Psychotherapy within the NHS, focusing on the model therapeutic community at Ingrebourne in Essex, where people are committed to intensive group therapy at least once a day and to having control over the running of the place, while being helped to come off their drugs.…
Left for dead after decades of neglect, the terminus of the Colorado River in Northern Mexico was once a vibrant wetland ecosystem the size of Rhode Island. “A Changing Delta” chronicles the stories, issues, and people of the Colorado River Delta in Mexico, and what they’ve done to…
Director Eva Mulvad (2019) Three Danish entrepreneurs aim high as they decide to produce a high quality cherry wine at a manor in the south of Denmark. The intense, dark wine receives fine reviews and praise from enthusiastic buyers all over the world. The film follows the three men and their unconventional…
"Chester would be a good laboratory for trying to deal with hard social problems.” Richard P. Nathan Director of the Rockefeller Institute of Government in Albany New York Times, January 5, 1992. Located 15 miles southwest of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Chester City was once viewed…
