Summary: Embraced by a growing number of practitioners, hypnotherapy is used to treat everything from phobias to allergies. But does it really work? This program tackles the question with the help of medical science and researchers. Led by science education specialist Dr. Kathy Sykes, the program focuses on the two main components of hypnosis, trance and suggestion. Sykes examines the neurological...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2008
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Summary: What takes place in the brain and body during meditation? Can science shed any light on what is essentially a spiritual practice? This program pursues that possibility, examining the effects of meditation on the human mind, nervous system, and anatomy. Accompanied by physicist and science education expert Dr. Kathy Sykes, viewers meet practitioners and medical researchers who have developed...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2008
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Summary: Can human touch really treat and cure medical conditions, even those affecting the body's vital organs? Scholar and science communicator Dr. Kathy Sykes investigates, speaking with reflexology practitioners and skeptical mainstream scientists. Despite the supposedly exotic beginnings of touch therapies, Sykes's inquiry begins in upstate New York, where reflexology originated in the 1930s, then...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2008