TY  - BOOK
AU  - F.Wahl,Otto
TI  - Media Madness: Public Images of Mental Illness 
SN  - 9780813522135 :
PY  - 1997///
CY  - New Brunswick
PB  - Rutgers University Press
KW  - Media Studies
KW  - ukslc
KW  - Media studies
KW  - thema
KW  - Media, entertainment, information & communication industries
KW  - Mental health services
KW  - United States of America, USA
KW  - Disability: social aspects
KW  - Social, group or collective psychology
KW  - Abnormal psychology
N2  - This work seeks to expose the myths about mental illness and the way it is distorted by the American media. The author argues that inaccuracies about mental illness in newspapers, magazines, movies and books make it clear that this is not merely stereotyping, but rather a pervasive ignorance; This work seeks to expose the myths about mental illness and the way it is distorted by the American media. 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. He argues that inaccuracies about mental illness in newspapers, magazines, movies and books make it clear that this is not merely stereotyping, but rather a pervasive ignorance. He looks at the media's role in presenting this image
ER  -