Tennis Friends This Emotional Life - PBS

Visit Your Local PBS Station PBS Home PBS Home Programs A-Z TV Schedules Watch Video Donate Shop PBS Search PBS

Connecting / Video

Tennis Friends

John McEnroe talks about the difficulty of maintaining friendships.

Topics

Related Videos

Asperger's Syndrome

Asperger's Syndrome

  • Jason

  • Jason, who suffers from Asperger's Syndrome, talks about his struggle to overcome his problems with social interactions.

    Dr. Ami Klim explains the challenges people with Asperger's have with intuitive behavior.

Topics
The Tap Code

The Tap Code

  • Bob S.

  • Bob Shumaker, a former POW in Vietnam, describes how he and his fellow prisoners developed a social network that was crucial to their surviving three years in solitary confinement. They succeeded by creating a tap code that allowed them to communicate through their cell walls.

Topics
Understanding stress

Understanding stress

  • Bruce McEwen Ph.D.

  • Dr. Bruce McEwen, Director, Hatch Laboratory of Neuroendocrinology at Rockefeller University, answers the questions, What is stress? Does stress harm the brain? and, What can we do to protect ourselves from stress?

Topics

This Emotional Life is a co-production of the NOVA/WGBH Science Unit and Vulcan Productions, Inc. A Film by Kunhardt McGee Productions. ©/™ 2009 WGBH Educational Foundation and Vulcan Productions, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

This Web site was produced for PBS Online by elephants & ants.

Funding for This Emotional Life is provided by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and Public Television Viewers. Additional funding provided by the University of Phoenix and the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration.

Close

Register

Registering allows you to comment on blogs and suggest and review resources on the This Emotional Life website.*Required Fields

  1. Spaces are allowed; punctuation is not allowed except for periods, hyphens, and underscores.
  2. A valid e-mail address. All e-mails from the system will be sent to this address. The e-mail address is not made public and will only be used if you wish to receive a new password or wish to receive certain news or notifications by e-mail.
  3. Please re-type your e-mail address to confirm it is accurate.
  6. Enter your zipcode. The content of this field is kept private and will not be shown publicly.
Close

Login

  1. Forgot?
  2. Forgot?
Close

Forgot Username or Password?