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The demonisation of psychiatrists in fiction (and why real psychiatrists might want to do something about it)

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 i...

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Autor principal: Hopson, Jacqueline
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Royal College of Psychiatrists 2014
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4115420/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25237540
http://dx.doi.org/10.1192/pb.bp.113.045633
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spelling pubmed-41154202014-08-04 The demonisation of psychiatrists in fiction (and why real psychiatrists might want to do something about it) Hopson, Jacqueline Psychiatr Bull (2014) Education & Training 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. Royal College of Psychiatrists 2014-08 /pmc/articles/PMC4115420/ /pubmed/25237540 http://dx.doi.org/10.1192/pb.bp.113.045633 Text en © 2014 The Royal College of Psychiatrists http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open-access article published by the Royal College of Psychiatrists and distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4115420/
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