HLTHAGE 1CC3 Lecture 9: Lecture 9
14 Jan 2019
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How we bring mental illness to life or make it visible is significant; it is built upon the idea of sane and insane. When you build mental illness you must say something about mental health: media central in construction of difference- representations help to create boundaries between who is health and who is ill. We put what we believe in books, movies but other books and movies influence us and the idea we have of mental illness. Influences popular public attitudes, more so than contact. Individuals citing media as most important source of information demonstrate more negative attitudes towards mental illness: with exception of negative stereotypes, people with mental illness usually absent. Mad genius: media reinforces particular, oversimplified concepts. Stories relate to specific and relatively rare circumstances, but audiences draw generalised inferences bipolar people are like x. Individuals actions are reduced to consequences of illness. E. g after 10 cups of coffee, his manic symptoms returned.
