This evening is going to be an Improve Eyesight Roundtable, an exploration on the subject of what's the cause of eyesight problems, both physically and psychologically, as well as solutions to this vast issue facing us as a society--in fact, it's become so pandemic, we don't even realize how much of a problem deteriorating eyesight has generally become. 

Our first guest, along with a few of his clients, was a colleague of Deborah Banker, M.D., Ophthamologist, John Monroe, who has worked with Dr. Banker beginning in 1992 and through her passing and has been both continuing and advancing her work. Dr. Banker was very studied in alternative approaches to improving eyesight as well as healing serious eye diseases, having developed her own healing technologies and protocols over the course of many years. 

Due to her innovations, John gives workshops around the country and has had thousands of successful results with clients, from helping them drop reading glasses to exercises for serious retinal diseases. Several clients of his will speak of their healing using these methods. 

In the latter part of the show, clinical psychologist and psychoanalyst, Dr. Nicholas Samstag will join Mitchell in a dialogue examining possible underlying psycho-emotional issues, emotional stress and conflicts that may also be causal or at least influential in visual disorders. 

Dr. Samstag specializes in long-term analytic treatment of adults, as well as couples therapy. 

Dr. Samstag has been in private practice for over 15 years and is an Adjunct Associate Professor of Psychology at New York University's Graduate School of Arts and Science. He has published articles and book reviews on psychoanalytic theory and is interested in the interactions of unconscious, conscious, and environmental factors in the creation of pathogenesis.