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This is a book on mental health for media professionals, it consists of the 5 chapters: the first chapter describes why and how the basic knowledge on mental health could be beneficial for media professionals (media educators, media-managers and journalists), describes linkage of mental health and human rights issues referring to the history of psychiatry, stigma and discrimination towards people with mental health problems, and political abuse of psychiatry in the Soviet Union. The second chapter describes common mental health disorders, less common mental health disorders and contemporary principles and approaches to mental health care. The third chapter describes self-care methods for journalists. The fourth chapter describes what should be taken into consideration by media while covering mental health related issues. The fifth chapter contains useful appendixes (guidelines from from relevant organizations on covering suicide, homicide and other tragedies.
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This paper provides a historical review of the anti-psychiatry movement, its origins and the details of its major discourses. The term ‘anti-psychiatry’ is described and the article explains how it represented a unique affront against mainstream psychiatry by the exceptional nature of its criticisms. Anti-psychiatry challenged the very foundations of psychiatry and its role in treating the mentally ill. These foundations are traced back to their nineteenth-century origins. This paper then follows the main proponents of anti-psychiatry through the development of their ideas; from a reframing of the concept of mental illness to speculation as to interpersonal, family and social aetiologies. The article examines how psychiatry itself came to be held into account for its perceived abuses of human rights and for the controlling force it played for society. Lastly, it tackles how anti-psychiatry was received as a threat by mainstream psychiatry but also how it came to influence and embroil with the coinciding emergence of counter-culture in the 1960’s and ‘70’s.
Ralley, O.J.D., 2012. The rise of anti-psychiatry: A historical review. History of Medicine Online.
In 2006, the Guardian opened many of its articles to readers’ comments to encourage a “conversation” between journalists and their readers. Readers responded enthusiastically, and by 2016 they had posted 70 million comments on the site. However, from the outset many journalists complained about the quality and tone of comments. Female and BAME (Black, Asian and minority ethnic) journalists in particular complained that they were subject to more abuse than their male, white counterparts. This study finds prima facie evidence to support the journalists’ claims. Using comments that had been blocked by moderators as a proxy for abuse and dismissive trolling, it was found that articles written by women did attract a higher percentage of blocked comments than those written by men, regardless of the subject of the article; this effect was heightened when the articles ran in a particularly male-dominated section of the site. There was also evidence that articles written by BAME writers attracted disproportionate levels of blocked comments, even though the research was not designed to reveal this. Preliminary research findings were published in the Guardian and readers were invited to comment on them. Guardian journalists’ experiences of comments were also surveyed. Both sets of responses are analysed here, in order to explore the contested nature of online abuse in an online news media environment, and to evaluate the potential of comments to “democratise” journalism.
Anxiety disorders are highly prevalent worldwide and engender substantial economic costs and disability. The World Health Organization is currently developing the Eleventh Revision of the International Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems (ICD-11), which represents the first opportunity to improve the validity, clinical utility, and global applicability of the classification in more than 25 years. This article describes changes in the organization and diagnostic guidelines for anxiety and fear-related disorders proposed by the ICD-11 Working Group on the Classification of Mood and Anxiety Disorders and the rationale and evidence base for the proposals. In ICD-11, anxiety and fear-related disorders that manifest across the lifespan are brought together under a new grouping, and are partly distinguished by their focus of apprehension. The focus of apprehension is the stimulus or situation that triggers the fear or anxiety and may be highly specific as in specific phobia or relate to a broader class of situations as in social anxiety disorder. The guidelines also clarify the relationship between panic disorder and agoraphobia and a qualifier is provided for panic attacks in the context of other disorders. A standardized format emphasizing essential features of anxiety disorders is intended to improve clinical utility. Guidelines will be further refined based on findings from two types of field studies: those using a case-controlled vignette methodology disseminated via the Internet to practitioners worldwide (http://gcp.network) and clinic-based field trials implemented globally at participating field study centers.
In 1960, I coined the phrase “MYTH OF MENTAL ILLNESS” to identify the intrinsically metaphoric nature of the idea of mental illness, to alert the public to the dangers of viewing distressed and distressing behaviors as diseases, and to undermine the moral legitimacy of psychiatric excuses and coercions. The claim that mental illnesses do not exist was not intended to imply that distressing personal experiences and deviant behaviors do not exist. Anxiety and depression, conflict and crime exist, and indeed are intrinsic to the human condition. But they are not diseases. We classify them as diseases in order to medicalize (mis)behaviors to our profit or at our peril.
