{"title":"The demonisation of psychiatrists in fiction (and why real psychiatrists might want to do something about it).","authors":"Jacqueline Hopson","doi":"10.1192/pb.bp.113.045633","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>To encourage psychiatric practitioners to be aware of and to work to counteract the representations of the profession as evil manipulators in fiction, film and popular culture. A wide-ranging number of representative sources portraying psychiatrists are explored. It is demonstrated that psychiatry is overwhelmingly presented in a damagingly negative light. </p>","PeriodicalId":90710,"journal":{"name":"Psychiatric bulletin (2014)","volume":"38 4","pages":"175-9"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2014-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1192/pb.bp.113.045633","citationCount":"23","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Psychiatric bulletin (2014)","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1192/pb.bp.113.045633","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
To encourage psychiatric practitioners to be aware of and to work to counteract the representations of the profession as evil manipulators in fiction, film and popular culture. A wide-ranging number of representative sources portraying psychiatrists are explored. It is demonstrated that psychiatry is overwhelmingly presented in a damagingly negative light.