THIS MIGHT HURT
A feature documentary about chronic pain and a radical mind-body treatment
February 2nd, 3pm ET
In person: Hatch Auditorium (2nd floor of Guggenheim Pavilion)
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ABOUT THE FILM:
An official selection of the Austin Film Festival, This Might Hurt follows three chronic pain patients who have spent years searching for answers. Desperate for relief, they enter a new medical program — run by Dr. Howard Schubiner — that focuses on uncovering hidden causes of pain, and retraining their brains to switch the pain off. This new paradigm for diagnosis and treatment, Emotional Awareness and Expression Therapy (EAET), was found to be effective in several randomized trials and was listed as a “best practice” by the HHS’s task force to combat the opioid epidemic. This Might Hurt provides an intimate exploration and suggests a path to healing for millions.
MODERATOR:
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Xiaosi Gu, PhD is a professor of psychiatry and neuroscience and the director of the Center for Computational Psychiatry at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. Her research examines the neural and computational mechanisms underlying human beliefs, emotions, decision making, and social interactions—in both health and disease—through a synthesis of neuroscience, cognitive science, and behavioral economics. She uses a variety of technologies, including brain imaging and machine learning, to study the brain’s processes, with the goal of improving general knowledge about the brain as well as psychiatric treatments. She is the co-developer of the Social Brain app, which uses games and participatory narratives to measure the relationship between social behaviors and mental health.
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Jessica Robinson-Papp, MD is a professor with Tenure of Neurology at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. She is also the PI of a center in the pain clinical trials consortium EPPIC-Net and the PI of EPPIC-Net’s national multicenter Platform Protocol to study new treatments for painful diabetic peripheral neuropathy.
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Venetia Zachariou, PhD is the newly appointed department chair for
Pharmacology, Physiology & Biophysics at Boston University. She is also an adjunct professor of neuroscience at the Icahn School of Medicine. Current projects investigate transcriptional and epigenetic mechanisms of chronic pain with emphasis on the identification and validation of novel treatments for the management of peripheral neuropathy and other chronic pain conditions.
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Marion Cunningham (director, producer, co-editor) is an Emmy-winning filmmaker who has produced series for Netflix, National Geographic, History, OWN, Discovery and A&E. Cunningham joined fellow Chapman University alum, Kent Bassett, after meeting in NYC. Both are eager to share what they have learned in hopes of alleviating the suffering that has driven thousands into opioid addiction, as well as driving many taken off their painkillers to suicide.
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Kent Bassett (director, producer, editor) is an Emmy-nominated editor and filmmaker from Arizona. He’s edited a number of feature documentaries that have premiered at Tribeca Film Festival, SXSW, AFI Docs, Doc NYC, and on PBS. His latest film as editor is Not Going Quietly, which was nominated for Best Feature and Best Writing by the International Documentary Association. Much of the drive to spend seven years making This Might Hurt came from Kent’s own struggle with chronic tendonitis and repetitive stress injury as a 22-year-old.
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