Media and Schizophrenia

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In this article, the writer discusses that the media's association between schizophrenia and craziness along with violence ensures that the patient is condemned. This paper compares the reality of schizophrenia with the media construct. The writer points out that although psychiatry views schizophrenia very differently from the media representation, the health care system contributes to the media's distortions by acting as a revolving door for patients instead of providing effective treatment.

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"Schizophrenia may be the most complex and incapacitating psychological disorder. Schizophrenia also is the disorder that correlates best with notions of madness in popular culture. It is the source of widespread fear because the mass media create a strong link between the disorder and violence. For example, the recent film 'A Beautiful Mind' demonstrates how the media persist in identifying mental illness with violence, and how they sensationalize schizophrenia."

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