HLTHAGE 2G03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Media Matters For America, Peer Support, Biology Of Depression

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Health, Aging and Society
• Course: HLTHAGE 2G03
• Professor: Mat Savelli

Document Summary

Media is a large place where we get this information. Whether it is professional or social media, we need to pay attention to how mental health and illness is depicted. Influence popular public attitudes, more so than contact. Research from as early as 1920s documents negative depictions of mental illness in the media. With exception of negative stereotypes, people with mental illness usually absent. Media serves to misinform the mass public on mental health issues and treatments. Media pressured by industry standards to sell news, not accurately report. Why media matters ii for mental illness, lacking a physical manifestations, representations are crucial, representations inform it is, what nature is. Mental illness, lacking in concrete form, is a venue for projection; people project their fears, worries and desires. What counts as good mental house says a lot about us as a culture.