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"Mediating Mental Health"

WAMC Northeast Public Radio | By Joe Donahue
Published August 8, 2012 at 11:12 AM EDT

Mediating Mental Health

looks across fictional and factual genres in film, television and radio examining media constructions of mental health identity. It also questions the opinions of journalists, mental healthcare professionals and people with conditions with regard to mediated mental health meanings.
Michael Birch lectures in the Department of English and Communications at the Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts in North Adams.
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