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Oct 12, 2021 · A 1995 book by Otto Wahl that examines the prevalence, nature, and impact of media portrayals of mental illness in film, TV, and print. The book criticizes the stereotypes, stigma, and discrimination that result from such depictions and suggests ways to improve them.
Winner of the 1996 Gustavus Myers Award for an Outstanding Book on Human Rights in North America "Media Madness is a most timely, readable, and useful book, exposing, as it does, the...
Media Madness also shows the damaging consequences of such stereotypes - stigma, rejection, loss of self-esteem, reluctance to seek, accept, or reveal psychiatric treatment, discrimination, and restriction of opportunity.
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- Otto F. Wahl
Dr. Otto Wahl examines the prevalence, nature, and impact of [media portrayals of mental illness], using numerous examples from film, television, and print media. He documents the remarkable frequency of these images and demonstrates how the media has stereotyped the mentally ill through exaggeration, misunderstanding, ridicule, and disrespect.
- Otto F. Wahl
- 1995
Media Madness: Public Images of Mental Illness. Otto F. Wahl. Rutgers University Press, 2003 - Mental illness in mass media - 220 pages. From Psycho, Silence of the Lambs, Kojak, and Melrose...
Statistics show that one out of every five people in the US will experience a psychiatric illness. The author of this book attempts to show the many ways in which false views of mental illness, purveyed in the media, shape the ways even the most enlightened of us view the world around us.
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Dec 1, 2005 · PDF | In the last 10 years, media studies have started to address the problem of the stigmatization of mental illness in the media. This article argues... | Find, read and cite all the research...