DVD Details
Director: Guillaume de Ginestel & George Crawford
Format: Color, NTSC, 16/9
Region: All Regions/Zones
Languages: English
Release Date: 2012
Duration: 52 minutes (documentary) / 18 minutes (bonus)
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The film offers a broad and grounded view of living with LAM. The courage and hope which the film captured in all the interviews was moving, and I am certain that women living with LAM around the world will be pleased to have this film referred to them. – BRONWYN GRAY, director of the New Zealand LAM Trust
Synopsis
Coping With Chronic Illness is a new comprehensive DVD which includes insights from experts and authors – some suffering from life-threatening chronic illnesses themselves – and the stories of patients who have managed to live – even happily – with a chronic disease. Featuring the first-ever LAM documentary Living & Breathing and extra bonus features on chronic illness.
Bonus Features
- 5 downloadable transcripts from top experts
- 28-page DVD booklet with excerpts and interviews from specialists & patients on chronic illness
- Identity Beyond Illness (4′)
- Living with Pain (6′)
- The Science of Happiness (8′)
Interviews including
- Amy Farber, founder of The LAM Treatment Alliance
- Havi Carel, of LAM Action UK and author of Illness: The Art of Living
- Corine Durand, LAMbassador of Association FLAM
- The LAM Foundation’s scientific board
- Dr. Jon Kabat-Zinn, founder of Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction and author of Mindfulness Meditation for Pain Relief
- Dr. Herbert Benson, Harvard Medical School teacher, researcher, practitioner, and author of The Relaxation Response
- Dr. Sonja Lyubomirsky, UC professor, researcher, and publisher of the definitive summary of the science of happiness
- Dr. Julian Seifter, diabetes patient, Harvard nephrologist, and writer on the subject of transformation through illness
- Dr. Stewart Fleishman, psychiatry professor and practitioner of support services for cancer patients
- Dr. Nicholas Christakis, practitioner and Harvard professor of hospice medicine