Each program 30 min. It is a complex system with some extraordinary capacity and some unexpected foibles. Memory does not work like a videotape recorder. There is the acquisition stage, the retention stage and the retrieval stage. At each stage, memory is subject to influences, but the retention stage is especially vulnerable.
Several experts share their findings.
Dr. Elizabeth Loftus describes her work as an expert in eyewitness testimony. Psychologist Carolyn Rovee-Collier of Rutgers University describes her research on babies' memories. This riveting documentary shows the transformation that has occurred in psychiatric care through the pioneering work of Dr. Heinz Lehmann. When Dr. Lehmann fled Nazi Germany to Montreal in 1937, he devoted the next sixty years to finding new and more humane treatments for the mentally ill. One of his dramatic achievements, captured on archival film, was a series of experiments involving intense human contact with his most regressed women patients.