Healing and the Mind
with Bill Moyers
Awards:
Emmy Award
This ground-breaking series explores the relationship between our minds and our health.
PBS
Five hours
1994
“Fascinating, thought-provoking television.”
– Washington Post
“An example of...TV that contributes to life, rather than isolating us from it.”
– San Francisco Chronicle
“Absorbing, surprising and moving...an important, stimulating series.”
– Variety
“Uniquely succeeds...in redefining medicine and treatment in such a way that science becomes meaningful and understandable...Watching makes you feel healthier.”
– Los Angeles Times
“Grubin is perhaps television’s finest documentarian.”
– Star-Ledger
Episodes:
The Mystery of Chi
Journalist Bill Moyers and filmmaker David Grubin travel to China with Dr. David Eisenberg and learn that the Chinese base their medicine on a centuries old geography of the body at odds with western science.
The Mind Body Connection
The program takes a look at scientists exploring the connection between mind and body.
Healing from Within
Featuring the work of Jon Kabat-Zinn, this program explores meditation as a form of healing.
The Art of Healing
How doctors and hospitals practice medicine based on the connection between mind and body.
Wounded Healers
Featuring the work of Michael Lerner and Rachel Naomi Remen, this program visits Commonweal in Bolinas, CA and a group of cancer patients engaged in a support system of mutual love and understanding.