How I am: (Wie ich bin)
"I'm like a hermit on an island," is the way Patrick Wanker describes his life with autism. With the dreams and fears of a teenager, but with wisdom and pain beyond his years, Patrick invites us into his emotional world ..
Not just a bad day: living with bipolar disorder
To the outsider, Mike, Erin, and Martha appear to have little in common, but they are all living under the shadow of one of the most commonly misunderstood and misdiagnosed mental illnesses - bipolar disorder. Not Just ..
Opening Doors : Public Health Nursing in its 100th Year
This video offers a look at the extraordinary stories of health professionals who often go unrecognized but who, for the past century, have met the public health needs of their communities by going to the people. This mo..
See What I'm Saying
This documentary illustrates how children who are deaf or hearing-impaired learn to communicate. It follows Patricia, a four-year-old child who is deaf, and her struggle to acquire language and communication skills.See W..
Stroke
Shortly after his marriage to filmmaker Katarina Peters, 33-year-old cellist Boris Baberkoff suffered a stroke during the couple's wedding trip to New York City. This autobiographical film documents their journey through..
Stuffed
Some people can't seem to throw anything away. This engaging documentary invites us to enter the mind of the compulsive hoarder, while dispelling the stereotype that all 'packrats' are isolated elderly derelicts. Hoardin..
Taking a sexual history: clinical strategies for assessing HIV risk
These unrehearsed vignettes show a variety of clinicians interviewing actual patients about their sexual and drug-using histories. While invaluable for evaluating HIV risk, these approaches will also enable clinicians to..
The Other Side of Blue: The Truth About Teenage Depression
The difficulty of dealing with depression as a teen is discussed and four young people tell their stories about depression, attempted suicide, and getting help. The film includes commentary by two psychiatrists and a soc..
The boy inside
Documents a young boy's struggle with Asperger syndrome. Aspergers is an increasingly common form of autism typically characterized by high intellectual functioning, coupled with emotionally inappropriate behavior and an..
The family meal
Obesity is second only to smoking as the leading cause of preventable death in the United States. Ironically, in the midst of this epidemic, American families are chronically under-nourished. It has been suggested that o..