Episode of Series “Horizon”.
A survey of the research done to study how our mental activities affect the development of illness in our lives, and the development of technique by which patients can be taught to use the activity of the mind to produce bodily changes in some of the physiological systems that are most associated with the onset of illness. Also discusses biofeedback - the control of the electrical activity of the brain.
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Collection metadata
ACMI Identifier
322226
Language
English
Subject categories
Documentary → Documentary films - Great Britain
Education, Instruction, Teaching & Schools → Biofeedback training
Educational & Instructional → Instructional
Food, Health, Lifestyle, Medicine, Psychology & Safety → Body, Human
Food, Health, Lifestyle, Medicine, Psychology & Safety → Human physiology
Food, Health, Lifestyle, Medicine, Psychology & Safety → Mind and body
Food, Health, Lifestyle, Medicine, Psychology & Safety → Physiology - Research
Mathematics, Science & Technology → Biological control systems
Television → Television programs
Television → Television programs → Television programs - Great Britain
Sound/audio
Sound
Colour
Black and White
Holdings
16mm film; Access Print (Section 1)