Claire Bennett va mal. Il n’y a qu’à voir ses cicatrices et ses grimaces de douleur dès qu’elle fait un geste pour comprendre qu’elle souffre physiquement. Elle ne parvient guère mieux à dissimuler son mal‐être affectif.
Une série de retrouvailles après plusieurs décennies, certaines en chair et en os, d’autres par le souvenir, dans la vie d’un réalisateur en souffrance. Premières amours, les suivantes, la mère, la mort, des acteurs avec qui il a travaillé, les années 60, les années 80 et le présent. L’impossibilité de séparer création et vie privée. Et le vide, l’insondable vide face à l’incapacité de continuer à tourner.
Quand Jennifer Brea, doctorante de Harvard, est terrassée par la fièvre qui la laisse alitée, les docteurs lui disent que "tout est dans sa tête". Déterminée à vivre, elle embarque pour un voyage virtuel afin de documenter son histoire et celle de quatre autres familles qui se battent contre une maladie que la médecine a décidé d'oublier.
Inside the dramatic search for a cure to ME/CFS (Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome). 17 million people around the world suffer from what ME/CFS has been known as a mystery illness, delegated to the psychological realm, until now. A scientist in the only neuro immune institute in the world may have come up with the answer. An important human drama, plays out on the quest for the truth.
Drawing on the book of the same name, League of Denial crafts a searing two-hour indictment of the National Football League’s decades-long concealment of the link between football related head injuries and brain disorders.
‘Voices from the Shadows’ shows the brave and sometimes heartrending stories of five ME patients and their carers, along with input from Dr Nigel Speight, Prof Leonard Jason and Prof Malcolm Hooper. These were filmed and edited between 2009 and 2011, by the brother and mother of an ME patient in the UK. It shows the devastating consequences that occur when patients are disbelieved and the illness is misunderstood. Severe and lasting relapse occurs when patients are given inappropriate psychological or behavioural management: management that ignores the severe amplification of symptoms that can be caused by increased physical or mental activity or exposure to stimuli, and by further infections. A belief in behavioural and psychological causes, particularly when ME becomes very severe and chronic, following mismanagement, is still taught to medical students and healthcare professionals in the UK. As a consequence, situations similar to those shown in the film continue to occur.
THE SCIENCE OF TAPPING is a collection of videos about the practice of Emotional Freedom Techniques (or "tapping"). Tapping techniques are interventions that apply principles of Chinese medicine for self-regulation — especially for the relief of chronic stress, anxiety, or pain. Interviewees discuss the evidence basis for the benefits of manually percussing some associated acupuncture points.