Winner of the 1996 Gustavus Myers Award for an Outstanding Book on Human Rights in
North America" Media Madness is a most timely, readable, and useful book, exposing, as it …

This article summarizes research published over the past decade and identifies areas where
future research is needed to increase our knowledge of the media's role in fostering or …

Studies that address the frequency, accuracy, and impact of mass media portrayals of
mental illness are reviewed. Numerous studies of frequency and content of media depictions …

This article reviews dominant media portrayals of mental illness, the mentally ill and mental
health interventions, and examines what social, emotional and treatment-related effects …

OBJECTIVES: Structural stigma and discrimination occur when an institution like a
newspaper, rather than an individual, promulgates stigmatizing messages about mental …

The media are often identified as partially responsible for increasing the stigma of mental
illness through their negatively focused representations. For many years, training programs …

The social opportunities of persons with severe psychiatric disorders are greatly diminished
by societal stigma (Farina, 1998; Link et al., 1989; Penn et al., 1994). Citizens are less likely …

This article analyzes two decades of research regarding the mass media's role in shaping,
perpetuating, and reducing the stigma of mental illness. It concentrates on three broad areas …

An analysis of media content in April 1993 found that two-thirds of items dealing with mental
health issues forged a link between mental illness and violence. Using some of this material …

Television, radio and newspapers play an essential role in the public perception of mental
illness. While the media often perpetuate unhelpful stereotypes of mental illness Byrne …