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Changing media representations of mental health

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

G. Philo
G. Philo*
Affiliation:
Department of Sociology, University of Glasgow, 61 Southpark Avenue, Glasgow G12 8LF
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The Glasgow Media Group has published the first major study in this country on media coverage of mental health (Philo, 1996). This research examines both the content of press, television and films and how these relate to public beliefs about mental illness. It involved an extensive content analysis plus a series of focus group interviews. The results show clearly that ill-informed beliefs on, for example, the association of schizophrenia with violence can be traced directly to media accounts.

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Psychiatry and the Media
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Psychiatric Bulletin , Volume 21 , Issue 3 , March 1997 , pp. 171 - 172
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This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Copyright © 1997 The Royal College of Psychiatrists

References

Philo, G. (ed.) (1996) Media and Mental Distress. London: Longman.Google Scholar
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