The Fanlight Collection
The Fanlight Collection has a special focus on healthcare, mental health, professional ethics, aging and gerontology, disabilities, the workplace, and gender and family issues.
The Fanlight Collection includes the following titles:
Examines hoarding behavior, including its links to Obsessive Compulsive Disorder.
Dancer Homer Avila lost his right leg and most of his hip to cancer and thought he'd never dance again until choreographer Alonzo King challenged expectations of what it means to be 'disabled.'
This lively and engaging video explores the impact media has on young women's physical, psychological and emotional health, and offers tools to begin dissecting the media that influence our behaviors, attitudes, and values.
A demonstration of the power of recovery and reinvention when life forces a change of plans -- in this case the loss of eyesight at age 20.
Parents describe the enormous challenges they face with children with severe disabilities.
A victim of gang violence himself, James Lilly works to help inner city school kids stay on the right track by sharing his story, and by talking about one thing that helped him move on: wheelchair racing
RARE follows an extraordinary mother in a race against time to find a treatment for her daughter's rare genetic disease.
From the 1950's through the 1970's, autism was widely blamed on cold and rejecting mothers. This film explores the devastating impact of this misdiagnosis through the stories of seven mothers and their children.
A vivid look at the benefits of Deep Brain Stimulation for a Parkinson's disease patient.
Explores the full spectrum of anxiety-related disorders, from panic attacks and phobias to obsessive compulsive disorder.
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