Mental diseases are common topics in motion pictures. Among the movies, which have been distributed in Germany between 1985 und 2009, a number of 522 films could be identified, which deal with psychiatry-related topics. In 362 cases a movie character was attached to a psychiatric diagnosis. Films often use mental diseases for narrative and artistic purposes and they sometimes describe the diseases in a blurred manner. But there has not been recognized a general stigmatizing effect of motion pictures.
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Mental diseases are common topics in motion pictures. Among the movies, which have been distributed in Germany between 1985 und 2009, a number of 522 films could be identified, which deal with psychiatry-related topics. In 362 cases a movie character was attached to a psychiatric diagnosis. Films often use mental diseases for narrative and artistic purposes and they sometimes describe the diseases in a blurred manner. But there has not been recognized a general stigmatizing effect of motion pict...
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