Mind Control

by The Ideas Network on Tape, Mitchell Gaynor, Jeffrey Smith

SEGMENT 1: Mitchell Gaynor is Director of Oncology and Integrative Medicine at the Stang-Cornell Cancer Prevention Center, and the author of the book and CD "Sounds of A Physician Reveals the Therapeutic Power of Sound, Voice and Music." Gaynor tells Steve Paulson that using chants and Tibetan singing bowls with his cancer patients has dramatically positive results. SEGMENT 2: Anti-depressants haven't worked for Jeffrey Smith, author of "Where the Roots Reach for A Personal and Natural History of Melancholia." He tells Steve Paulson why he decided to learn to live with his depression, what difference the medication made, and how he's doing now. SEGMENT 3: Janja Lalich is Director of the Center for Research on Influence and Control, and author of "Captive Hearts, Captive Minds." She tells Judith Strasser how she defines brainwashing and talks about her own experience as a cult member for over ten years. Also, Caltech historian Alison Winter tells Jim Fleming about the 19th century mesmerists, popular entertainers who established the validity of hypnotism. Winter's book is " Powers of Mind in Victorian England."

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Published January 1, 2001