ABC News 20/20 Obsessive Compulsive Disorder List price: $9.95 1 new available from $9.95. Whenever Lois Pile hits the road, she also thinks she's hitting people on the road. She truly believes this. Lois is constantly looking around, checking the mirrors, anticipating a catastrophe that never happens. Lois' real problem is not her driving. Instead, Lois suffers from an illness, a form of obsessive compulsive disorder 'harming obsession,' and in her case, Lois is afraid she's going ... |
ABC News 20/20 Schizophrenia List price: $9.95 3 new & used available from $9.95. It's all in their minds: visions, voices, taunting, never ending, driving them crazy or worse. It's hard to imagine, but now, an amazing device lets you feel their pain. The technology lets you go inside the mind of a schizophrenic. See what they see. Hear what they hear. Using the technique of virtual reality, Janssen Pharmaceuticals has developed a device to stimulate the visual and auditory h... |
ABC News Classics The Assasination of President Kennedy List price: $19.95 1 new available from $19.95. It was a day that no one who lived through it will ever forget. A young and vibrant president shot dead on the streets of a major American city --- the fourth presidential assassination in the country's history. The assassination of President John F. Kennedy was also the first time that U.S. television networks went to 24-hour coverage of a news story. ABC News takes you back to November 22, 1... |
ABC News Classics Royal Wedding: Prince Charles and Lady Diana List price: $19.95 1 new available from $19.95. On July 29, 1981, an estimated 750 million people tuned in to see the heir to Britain's throne wed the 20-year-old former kindergarten teacher in St Paul's Cathedral. The fairy-tale courtship of Lady Diana Spencer and Prince Charles sparked worldwide interest in the royal family. ABC News' Peter Jennings and Barbara Walters bring you back to the culmination of years of speculation and intrigue, wh... |
ABC News Primetime Aspergers Syndrome List price: $14.95 1 new available from $14.95. ABC News reports on Aspergers Syndrome, a debilitating, life-long, neurological disorder with similarities to autism. Children with Aspergers have intense obsessions, great difficulty carrying on normal conversations or feeling emotions. Their obsession is a symptom of the unique disorder. They're highly intelligent but their brains are wired differently. They can't read faces if someone's sad or... |
ABC News 20/20 Race & Sex: What We Think But Don't Say List price: $19.95 1 new available from $19.95. Typecast, label, pigeonhole & it doesn't matter what word is used, they all mean the same thing -- to stereotype. As John Stossel reports, many people say it's natural to stereotype, and psychologists say we still categorize by things like age and race and gender because our brains are wired to do it automatically. Topics covered include: Stereotypes and tolerance -- it possible to overcome raci... |
ABC News 20/20 Violence and Dating List price: $14.95 1 new available from $14.95. What would make a popular high school football star snap and kill his girlfriend? Why would a teenage girl cling to a boyfriend who is a physical and emotional threat? Marcus McTear, a star running back in Austin, Texas, brutally killed his girlfriend in a high school stairwell. To try and understand teen violence and dating, ABC News talks to the girlfriend's mother and a previous girlfriend who ... |
ABC News 20/20 Panic Attacks. Don't Panic List price: $19.95 1 new available from $19.95. There is a kind of pain that is invisible and terrifying -- panic attacks. In their most extreme form, people are so paralyzed with fear that for years they are unable even to leave their own homes. Psychologist David Barlow and Director of the Center for Anxiety and Related Disorders at Boston University says a number of factors, including heredity and stress can make a person vulnerable to panic... |
ABC News 20/20 A Moving Journey List price: $14.95 1 new available from $14.95. ABC News correspondent Bob Brown profiles the remarkable Bill Porter of Portland, Oregon. Born with cerebral palsy, Porter nonetheless became a door-to-door salesman in Portland, struggling up to 10 miles a day on foot while selling household products for the Watkins Company. Friendly and persistent, in time Porter became the top grossing Watkins salesman in the United States. His story was told i... |
ABC News Primetime Deaf Kids List price: $9.95 1 new available from $9.95. Despite being profoundly hearing impaired, students at the Tucker-Maxon Oral School in Portland, Oregon learned to speak, thanks in part to a peculiar teacher in their school. He has no hair, no ears, and never calls in sick. The kids love him. His name is Baldi. Baldi is a revolutionary tutor; an animated guide for learning how to speak. His lip, tongue and jaw movements are a near-perfect co... |
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