TY - GEN T1 - Media madness : public images of mental illness A1 - Wahl, Otto F. LA - English PP - New Brunswick, NJ PB - Rutgers University Press YR - 1995 UL - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/ebsco_acadsubs_ocm44958063 AB - From Psycho, Silence of the Lambs, Kojak, and Melrose Place, from books, music, cartoons, advertising, and newspapers, we all derive our images of mental illness. These omnipresent media portrayals are at the least insensitive, inaccurate, and unfavorable and at the worst stigmatizing and pernicious. In this important book, Dr. Otto Wahl examines the prevalence, nature, and impact of such depictions, 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. 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. The forces that shape current images of mental illness are clarified, as are the efforts of organizations and individuals to combat such exploitation. OP - 260 CN - P96.M452 U68 1995eb SN - 0585118647 SN - 9780585118642 SN - 0813522137 SN - 0813522129 KW - Mental illness in mass media. KW - Mass media : United States. KW - Maladies mentales dans les meĢdias. KW - PSYCHOLOGY : Mental Health. KW - PSYCHOLOGY : Mental Illness. KW - MEDICAL : Mental Health. KW - Mass media KW - Mental illness in mass media KW - United States ER -