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D tour
PSY DVD0645

Pat Spurgeon is the charismatic drummer of the Oakland, California based indie rock band Rogue Wave and has only one kidney, which is failing. Pat's search for a new organ and his inspiring ability to balance health and work form the center of D tour. As the film begins, he has a tube inserted in his stomach for twice-daily dialysis, a process that simulates kidney function. Even if dialysis should be done only in a sterile environment, pat watns to gig and the band hits the road on what they dub their D(ialysis) Tour. Interweaving live performances from a benefit concert, Jim Granato's award winning documentaryis a unique travelogue, raising issues of friendship, self-preservation, identity, health care, indie rock and, most ntably, organ donation. 2009 99 minutes A Film by Jim Granato


My Name was Sabina Spielrein
PSY DVD0461

A surprising find of letters and diaries in a basement in Switzerland revealed a love affair between the 29-year-old Carl Jung and his first patient, Sabina Spielrein. This unique relationship is dramatized based on the letters of Jung, Speilrein and Sigmund Freud in a riveting new film by Elisabeth Marton. Letters and photographs are combined with dramatic re-enactments and dream-like imagery to offer a mesmerizing portrait of an important woman lost in a history penned by men. Marton's unique docudrama ensures that we will indeed remeber the name Sabina Spielrein. Color. 90 mins.


Motivational Interviewing
PSY DVD0462

Dr. Miller demonstrates how Motivational Interviewing helps people resolve their ambivalence about changing addictive behaviors. The therapist creates an atmosphere that is conducie to change by expressing empathy and encouragement, rolling with resistance, and helping the client explore the gaps between their current behaviors and the life they would like to lead. In this video, Dr. Miller works with a client who is considering changing his alcohol use and smoking habits. Jon Carlson and Jusy Lewis introduce Dr. Miller, and facilitate an in-depth discussion of the further impact of uses of the model. 1 hour and 42 minutes.


Super Staph: Invincible Bacteria?
PSY DVD0322

Antibodies have saved countless lives from potentially deadly infections - but bacteria keep rebounding in stronger mutations. This program focuses on one of the most lethal pathogens: methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, or MRSA. Outlining the microbe's alarming ability to wtihstand methicillin, amoxicillin, and related antibiotics, the program examines the emergence of two separate staph strains, healthcare-associated and community-associated, and feature case studies of each. Dr. Benjamin Lipsky of the University of Washington and Dr. John Jernigan of the CDC explain the challenges of fighting these resilient killers. They also explore the possibility of an MRSA vaccine. DVD/2003//Color/28 minutes


Three Approaches To Psychotherapy - Rogers
PSY DVD0500

Perhaps the most complex and engaging of Carl Rogers' filmed demonstrations of Client Centered Psychotherapy with a real client, this film has inspired and instructed generations of students. Gloria's conflict between her feelings, her beliefs, and her actions, all her personal utopia when she is not in conflict but "all in one piece," are all heard and understood by Rogers. The value of any system of psychotherapy relies largely on the skill of the therapist who emplys it, as Rogers so ably demonstartes. 52 mins.


Me
PSY DVD0338

It's not unusual for two men to be in love with the same woman...unless it's the same man. Rhode Island state trooper Charlie Baileygates proves that nice guys finish first after marrying the pretiest gal in town. But when she leaves him for another man, Charlie decelops a split personality and his outrageous opposite, Hank, is born! Hank's got a filthy mouths, a bad attitude and a short fuse. When Charlie falls crazy in love with the beautiful but wanted Irene, he must wage war -- with himself -- for the confused Irene's affections. 116 min


Three Approaches to Psychotherapy - Pearles
PSY DVD0501

With a goal similar to Rogers', to help Gloria find her own way, Frederick Peris uses an entirely different approach he calls Gestalt Therapy. The Gestalt technique, he says, is to frustrate the client as a way to draw out the authentic person and to strip away the person's phony roles and games. 58 mins.


Whats Eating Gilbert Grape?
PSY DVD0339

Meet Gilbert Grape, a young man who lives in Endora,Iowa, population 1,901. "Describing it", says Gilbert, "is like dancing to no music." Gilbert lives with his mother, whose 36 stone frame is slowly destroying the fragile Grape homestead, his brother, Arnie who was never expected to survive childhood, and his two sisters. Gilbert's only excitement is his affair with Mrs. Betty Carver. Besides that, Gilbert's life is weird. And he doesn't seem to enjoy it. But one day a mysterious, beautiful girl named Becky moves into town with her grandmother, and Gilbert's world begins to change. 118 min


Three Approaches to Psychotherapy - Ellis
PSY DVD0502

Albert Ellis' approach, Rational Emotive Psychotherapy, deals primarily with the client's thoughts and how the client views life events. Ellis challenges Gloria's absolutes, her "awfulizing" and "catastrophizing", that make her feel so dissatisfied with herself and that sabotage her relationships with others. He tells her that the irrational things she says to herself cause her negative feelings and her consequent behaviors, and she begins to discover that by correcting her irrational thoughts she can reverse their consequences. 36 mins.