Past Programs
Medical Procedures - 2002
Meet Electroboy
13/10/2002
Meet Electroboy. Los Angeles based writer Andy Behrman has just published a memoir of mania, and hang on tight - it's a wild ride. After 15 years of sex, drugs, big spending and medicalised mayhem - he was to eventually discover that he was living on the knife edge of manic depression. It was almost too late. Today he goes by the name given to him by the nurse who delivered his first round of electro-shock therapy - "Electroboy".
Psychoprosthetics: Can a Prosthesis Ever Really become a Part of You?
29/09/2002
What does it feel like to lose a part of you? Is part of your essential
psychological self lost as well? And can a prosthetic limb ever replace
that? This week, the pioneering field of psycho-prosthetics - the
psychology of adapting to a prosthesis. Powerfully candid stories of life
after limb loss, and the love/hate relationship with a synthetic limb that
just isn't your own.
