scholarly journals Mental illness in British newspapers (or My Girlfriend is a Rover Metro)

1993 ◽  
Vol 17 (11) ◽  
pp. 673-674 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard C. Barnes ◽  
Stephen Earnshaw
Keyword(s):  
Mental Illness ◽  
Mass Media ◽  
Psychiatric Disorders ◽  
Mentally Ill ◽  
Television News ◽  
The Other ◽  
Current Affairs ◽  
Newspaper Reporting ◽  
The World ◽  
General Kind

The main source of topical information in most parts of the world is through the mass media – principally newspapers and television. Television news and current affairs have a duty to remain impartial, as they provide a service for the whole population. Newspapers, on the other hand, have a greater journalistic and editorial freedom as they target subgroups. British newspapers are currently being scrutinised as to how they report both factual and speculative information of a general kind. At the same time there seems to be an increase in their interest in psychological matters. However, work on newspaper reporting of psychiatric disorders (Day & Page, 1986; Matas et al, 1986) has shown that the mentally ill are usually portrayed in a rather negative light with few positive images.

scholarly journals Psychiatry in 21st century: The road ahead

2014 ◽  
Vol 05 (04) ◽  
pp. 426-427
Author(s):  
Sayantanava Mitra ◽  
Anjana Rao Kavoor
Keyword(s):  
Global Warming ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Mentally Ill ◽  
Mental Illnesses ◽  
The Other ◽  
The Road ◽  
Gender Empowerment ◽  
The World ◽  
Advance Care ◽  
And Gender

ABSTRACTIn spite of becoming more humane in its approach with improvements in understanding of mental illnesses over last century, psychiatry still has a long way to go. At this point in time, on one hand the world faces issues like terrorism, wars and global warming; while on the other it is witnessing economic and gender empowerment like never before. With technology providing us with immense opportunities to advance care for the mentally ill, we are closer than ever to finding the holy-grail of psychiatry, and overcoming daunting challenges.

Homelessness, Mental Illness and the Law

1997 ◽  
Vol 37 (4) ◽  
pp. 341-344 ◽  
Author(s):  
Walid Abdul-Hamid ◽  
Colm Cooney
Keyword(s):  
Mental Illness ◽  
Psychiatric Disorders ◽  
Mentally Ill ◽  
Homeless People ◽  
Social Background ◽  
Current Debate ◽  
Major Difficulty ◽  
Legal Problems ◽  
Homeless Mentally Ill ◽  
Court Diversion

One major difficulty that faces both researchers and practitioners who work with the homeless is the lack of definitions and frameworks that assist better understanding of such people's problems and society's response to them. This article reviews the legislation dealing with homeless people's social, civil and legal problems. We tried to give this legislation's historic and social background, including a section on psychiatric disorders in this group because of then-relevance to current debate on homeless offenders. We then reviewed the legislation relevant to homeless people in general and the homeless mentally ill in particular, including the recently introduced court diversion schemes.

Confronting 60 Minutes’ “Imminent Danger”: The Evidence on Schizophrenia and Psychotropic Medications, Violence, and Forced Orders to Treat

2014 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 51-62 ◽  
Author(s):  
Toby T. Watson
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
United States ◽  
Mental Illness ◽  
Severe Mental Illness ◽  
Mentally Ill ◽  
The United States ◽  
Psychotropic Medications ◽  
Television Show ◽  
Imminent Danger ◽  
The World

Recently, considerable attention has been given to individuals labeled “mentally ill,” with the possibility that they too often go untreated with psychotropic medications and in turn, commit disproportionally higher rates of violence. The world-known television show60 Minutesbroadcasted a special on this topic in the United States on September 29, 2013; however, they created a disturbingly inaccurate picture of those who suffer with what some label as “mental illness.” There are decades of peer-reviewed research demonstrating that individuals diagnosed with severe mental illness, labeledschizophrenia,and given psychotropic medications are in fact less likely to recover from their disorder and more likely to be rehospitalized. Additionally, although mental health commitments, often calledforced orders to treat,are quite common and now being supported more so due to such programming, the research on mental health commitments has not shown they are actually effective.

scholarly journals THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN AFFECTIVE AND OTHER PSYCHIATRIC DISORDER WITH CREATIVE ACTIVITY AND SOME OF THEIR NEUROCHEMICAL MECHANISMS

2017 ◽  
pp. 5-9
Author(s):  
V.O. Bedlinskyi
Keyword(s):  
Mental Illness ◽  
Psychiatric Disorder ◽  
Psychiatric Disorders ◽  
Mentally Ill ◽  
Creative Activity ◽  
Creative Ability ◽  
Neurochemical Mechanisms ◽  
Biochemical Mechanisms ◽  
The Relationship

The article is based on the study for the relationship between affective and other psychiatric disorders with the creative activity of an individual. The historical and contemporary views on this problem were analyzed, considering  modern data on neurochemical mechanisms, which play a big role in the process of creativity, and in the development of mental illness. The role of dopaminergic neurotransmission as one of the main biochemical mechanisms of providing creative ability was highlighted. It was concluded that studying and taking into account the relationship between psychiatric disorders and creative activity, including the role and features of the functioning of neurotransmitter systems, can serve as a means of improving the treatment-diagnostic, preventive and reabilitation care of this category of mentally ill.

scholarly journals Difficulties and Concerns of Patients with Severe Mental Disorders and Their Caregivers During Hospitalization and After Discharge During the First Wave of COVID-19 Epidemic

2020 ◽  
Vol 26 (3 Special Issue on COVID-19) ◽  
pp. 348-359
Author(s):  
Amir Hossein Jalali Nadoushan ◽  
◽  
Saeedeh Shirdel ◽  
Marjan Shokrani ◽  
Porshad Pourzarabian Haghighi ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Psychiatric Disorders ◽  
Psychiatric Illness ◽  
Negative Impact ◽  
Psychiatric Patients ◽  
The Other ◽  
Vulnerable Groups ◽  
Severe Mental Disorders ◽  
Safe Place ◽  
The World ◽  
Time Of Admission

Objectives: The Covid-19 has caused anxiety and stress in people all over the world. One of the most vulnerable groups during this epidemic are people with psychiatric disorders. In this study, we investigate the leading causes of concern among patients with psychiatric disorders and their families during and after hospitalization. The purpose of this study is to improve the care and service given to these patients and their caregivers regarding their concerns. Methods: In this study, 48 patients with psychiatric disorders hospitalized from late February to late April 2020 in the Iran Psychiatric Hospital were contacted by telephone. They completed a questionnaire related to the covid-19 pandemic and the problems caused by it during and after their hospitalization. Results: Inability to meet with family and the fear of infection to Covid-19 were among the main concerns of these patients at the time of admission. Their most worrying factors after discharge were the negative impact of quarantine on the recurrence of psychiatric illness. On the other hand, the most significant concern during the hospitalization of a patient with Covid-19 is the caregivers of these patients after discharge and the inaccessibility to a physician. Conclusion: The Covid-19 pandemic has caused challenges in treating psychiatric patients; thus, this study suggests some solutions such as providing a safe place for doctors to visit the patients, recommending the patients and the caregivers to observe self-hygiene protocols, and seeing patients virtually.

scholarly journals Re-rigging Othering: Subversive Infantilisation in Contemporary Bosnian-Herzegovinian Prose

2014 ◽  
Vol 6 (7) ◽  
pp. 1259-1273
Author(s):  
Fedja Borčak
Keyword(s):  
Mass Media ◽  
Bosnia And Herzegovina ◽  
The Other ◽  
Subject Position ◽  
Literary Texts ◽  
Western Discourse ◽  
The World ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Way

In this article I put forward the concept of subversive infantilisation to designate a phenomenon in contemporary Bosnian literature, which by using a certain kind of childish outlook on the world undermines paternalistic and balkanist Western discourse on Bosnia and Herzegovina. By analysing primarily the portrayal of the role of mass media in a few literary texts, principally books by Nenad Veličkovié and Miljenko Jergovié, I highlight the way in which these texts “re-rig” and by means of irony and exaggeration illuminate the problematic logic inherent in the subject position from which one represents the other. Textual characteristics of subversive infantilisation are contextualised further and seen as a discursive continuation of experiences of the 1990s war in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

scholarly journals Lingvocultural Types in the British Language Picture of the World

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (SPE2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Nadezhda V. Pospelova ◽  
Marina S. Achaeva ◽  
Natalya E. Koroleva
Keyword(s):  
Mass Media ◽  
Social Group ◽  
Value Orientation ◽  
The Other ◽  
The World ◽  
Xxist Century ◽  
Characteristic Features ◽  
The One ◽  
Interdisciplinary Concept ◽  
Cultural Linguistics

One of the mainstreams in linguistics at the end of the XXth - beginning of the XXIst century is a linguocultural modeling of linguistic consciousness and communicative behaviour, i.e. the creation of a certain linguocultural archetype. By itself, the term "linguocultural archetype" is an interdisciplinary concept of cultural linguistics, linguistic conceptology and linguistic personology. The authors of the paper consider a linguocultural archetype, on the one hand, as a set of indicators, which make it possible to find a recognizable image of some individual, and on the other hand, reveal the features typical for a social or ethnic group, which is a binding basis for the archetype. The linguocultural archetypes presented in the paper are considered as typified individuals from a certain ethno-social group; they are recognisable by their characteristic features of verbal and non-verbal behaviour and value orientation in the society. The paper deals with conceptual, figurative, value and associative features of British linguocultural archetypes such as "English policeman", and "knocker up".The important indicators of linguocultural archetypes in cognitive consciousness of people are recurrence, associativity and textuality. The recognisability of the linguocultural archetypes "English policeman" and "knocker up" is stipulated by the mentioning of these professions in films, works of writers and artists, as well as in mass media materials.

Psychosocial Rehabilitation and Psychiatry: What are the Boundaries?

1996 ◽  
Vol 41 (1) ◽  
pp. 28-35 ◽  
Author(s):  
Leona L Bachrach
Keyword(s):  
Mental Illness ◽  
Literature Review ◽  
Mentally Ill ◽  
Psychosocial Rehabilitation ◽  
The Other ◽  
Common Cause ◽  
Mentally Ill Persons ◽  
Cooperative Enterprise

Objectives: 1. To examine the conceptual underpinnings of psychosocial rehabilitation and underscore its essential relationship to the practice of psychiatry. 2. To explore and dispel some misunderstandings and myths that practitioners in each field sometimes carry about the other. Method: Literature review and observation. Results: Psychiatry and psychosocial rehabilitation's shared emphasis on the biopsychosocial nature of mental illness forms a compelling basis for cooperative enterprise. Conclusions: Mentally ill persons are best served when the disciplines of psychiatry and psychosocial rehabilitation come together in a common cause.

Cognitive Therapy of Religious Depressed Patients: Common Concepts Between Christianity and Islam

2011 ◽  
Vol 25 (3) ◽  
pp. 177-188 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sasan Vasegh
Keyword(s):  
Psychiatric Disorders ◽  
Cognitive Therapy ◽  
Religious Beliefs ◽  
The Other ◽  
Case Examples ◽  
Depressed Patients ◽  
The World ◽  
And Behaviors ◽  
Religious Thoughts

The two most prevalent religions in the world are Christianity and Islam, each having more than one billion followers. It is well known that religious beliefs, including Christian and Islamic thoughts and beliefs, affect the feelings and behaviors of religious people. Many times, the psychopathological thoughts have religious contents. On the other hand, some studies have reported faster recovery of religious anxious and depressed patients by adding religious techniques, cognitions, and behaviors to the usual psychotherapy. This article discusses several religious thoughts and beliefs common to Christianity and Islam that the author has found useful in cognitive therapy of religious depressed patients and offers three case examples to illustrate how to use them. A set of such religious thoughts and concepts has important potential implications: more effective psychotherapy of religious Christian or Muslim patients, decreasing biases towards the patients from the other religion, and designing questionnaires and manuals for assessing the role of these thoughts in treatment or prevention of psychiatric disorders.

Psychiatry and Its Checkered Past

2019 ◽  
pp. 87-102
Author(s):  
Judith Puckett ◽  
David Shumway Jones
Keyword(s):  
Mental Illness ◽  
Medical Education ◽  
Mentally Ill ◽  
Medical Profession ◽  
The Other ◽  
Psychiatric Nosology ◽  
The Public ◽  
History Of ◽  
Medical Professions ◽  
The Continuum

This chapter examines the history of critiques that have been made of psychiatric practice in specific times and specific places. Though psychiatry is well-established as part of the medical profession and requires completion of a medical education all doctors receive, psychiatrists are often viewed as distinct from other doctors, and psychiatry continues to be viewed negatively in the public eye. Psychiatrists themselves have been partly to blame for this; the profession originally spent decades attempting to differentiate itself from the other medical professions. Since it is not possible to cover every aspect of the history of critiques of psychiatry, the chapter focuses on two major problems that continue to influence how psychiatry is practiced and perceived today: the development of asylums as a form of confinement for those who are mentally ill, and the development of psychiatric nosology and diagnosis. By exploring the continuum of mental illness and the idea of “normal versus abnormal,” the chapter offers psychiatrists a framework for how they can think about their work going forward.

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