Can Taped Goggles Heal Emotional Disorders?
Wednesday, October 21, 1998 (This is an unedited, uncorrected transcript.) From ABC’s 20/20 SAM DONALDSON: Tonight, we bring you word of an amazing medical discovery. It’s not a bio-engineered drug or a dazzling piece of high-tech equipment. This is a breakthrough treatment for depression and anxiety that is so simple, even the Harvard doctor who came up with the idea couldn’t believe it would work. Our own DR TIMOTHY JOHNSON: turns the spotlight on this cutting-edge therapy-a pair of goggles and some tape, giving some patients a dramatically different view of the world. DR TIMOTHY JOHNSON, ABCNEWS MEDICAL EDITOR (VO) Depression and anxiety-what is the key to unlocking the troubled mind? Psychologists believe in the healing power of talk therapy. Neuroscience, on the other hand, tells us that emotions are generated by brain chemistry and that drugs like Prozac are, therefore, crucial. But now, Dr Fredric Schiffer, a Harvard psychiatrist, has come up with a startling new concept to expl
