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By Otto F. Wahl

Winner of the 1996 Gustavus Myers Award for a great booklet on Human Rights in North the USA "Media insanity is a so much well timed, readable, and invaluable booklet, exposing, because it does, the myths approximately psychological disorder that almost all folks stay by--myths which are as harmful as they're pervasive. Wahl is mainly reliable at exhibiting, intimately, the numerous ways that fake perspectives of psychological disorder, purveyed within the media, form the methods even the main enlightened folks view the area round us. A so much considerate, stimulating e-book, from which I discovered an excellent deal." --Jay Neugeboren, writer of Imagining Robert: My Brother, insanity, and Survival--A Memoir "An remarkable publication . . . well-researched . . . it really is 'must reading.'" --Laurie Flynn, former govt director, nationwide Alliance for the Mentally ailing "The rampant inaccuracies approximately psychological health problems in newspapers, magazines, videos, and books make it transparent that this isn't basically stereotyping, yet really a pervasive lack of knowledge. Dr. Wahl's booklet is going some distance to provide an explanation for the place the mistakes are and to teach and sensitize the reader to common inaccuracies. additionally, the booklet is especially readable." --NAMI suggest "What do the media need to do with one's belief of psychological ailment? Wahl takes an in-depth glance a how damaging public photographs of psychological disorder are usually misguided. records express that one out of each 5 humans within the U.S. will event a psychiatric affliction. With boldness and sensitivity, Wahl takes a robust examine the incorrect stereotypes created via the media." --Choice "Extremely good written . . . This e-book is a invaluable contribution to efforts to beat the stigma of psychological disease and 'media madness.'" --Paul J. Fink, M.D., psychological overall healthiness advisor Otto Wahl is a professor of psychology and director of the Graduate Institute Psychology on the college of Hartford, Connecticut. he's at the advisory forums of the nationwide Stigma Clearinghouse and the Rosalynn Carter Fellowships for psychological wellbeing and fitness Journalism, in addition to a expert for the source heart to deal with Discrimination and Stigma linked to psychological disorder (ADS Center). he's additionally the writer of Telling Is dicy enterprise: psychological wellbeing and fitness shoppers Confront Stigma (Rutgers collage Press).

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2011 23:34:51] next page > page_23 < previous page page_23 next page > Page 23 Image not available. 2. Offensive slang is often used to refer to mental illness. other places, in the June 6, 1989, Village Voice called for the attention of "Neurotics, Psychotics, Schizoids, Manics, and Music Lovers at All Levels of Mental Dysfunction" and promised that, if readers came to one of the scheduled locations for Buster Poindexter Mental Health Day, they could get their pictures taken, in a straitjacket, with Buster Poindexter himself.

6 Homeless and mentally ill people are expected to look a certain waydiscernibly different from othersand visual representations of them underscore that expectation in their selection of images, even when that representation is contrary to the reality encountered by those responsible for the depiction. The mass media, however, do not stop at suggesting that those with mental illnesses look different from others. Their images also communicate that people with mental illnesses are different in many fundamental ways.

Those millions of people with mental illnesses come from all walks of life; they are doctors, lawyers, teachers, grocers, mechanics, pilots, construction workers, and psychiatrists. " Moreover, no amount of economic privilege, brains, talent, or courage can make one immune to mental illness. Those afflicted, for example, have included a winner of both the Pulitzer Prize and the Nobel Prize for Literature, the second person to set foot on the moon, the Oscar-winning star of Gone With the Wind, a Super Bowl winner, a famous painter, a senator and vice presidential candidate, the psychology director of a large psychiatric hospital, and a recent winner of the Nobel Prize for Economics.

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