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Child of Rage

6 and a half year old Beth Thomas, once labeled “The Child Of Rage” by HBO, tells the story of her healing from Reactive Attachment Disorder in a powerful story you will never forget. What happens when a child is deprived of love? What are the ramifications of a very young child be physically and sexually abused? What do you do when you are ...

Fry’s Planet Word

A five-part series in which Stephen Fry explores language, coming to understand how we learn it, write it and sometimes lose it, and why it defines us. From the primitive linguistic techniques of our ancient ancestors to the multitude of diverse languages that exist today, Stephen Fry takes us on a fascinating journey through the history of lang...

Tormented Lives

Documentary in which disability rights campaigner Rosa Monckton provides an insight into the harrowing stories behind headline-grabbing accounts of attacks on people with learning difficulties. She meets families that were neglected by the authorities after coming under siege in their own homes, and details how these incidents have seen people driv...

Are you Good or Evil?

What makes us good or evil? It's a simple but deeply unsettling question. One that scientists are now starting to answer. Horizon meets the researchers who have studied some of the most terrifying people behind bars - psychopathic killers. But there was a shock in store for one of these scientists, Professor Jim Fallon, when he discovered that he...

Healing The Shame That Binds You

In an emotionally revealing way John Bradshaw shows us how toxic shame is the core problem in our compulsions, co-dependencies, addictions and the drive to super-achieve. The result is a breakdown in the family system and our inability to go forward with our lives. We are bound by our shame. Drawing from his 22 years of experience as a counselor...

Carl Jung In His Own Words – The World Within

The images of the unconscious place a great responsibility upon a man. Failure to understand them or a shrinking of ethical responsibility deprives him of his wholeness and imposes a painful fragmentariness on his life.) In The World Within, this idea is explored as we are given ...

Carl Jung: Matter of Heart

Matter of Heart is a very interesting 1986 documentary about Carl Jung, that examines his life and times, but more importantly his ideas, particularly about the collective unconscious, often with a mystical bent that was characteristic of Jung's work. The film consists largely of reminiscences and  insights by many of Jung's former pupils, friends...