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Article: What is the role of intertextuality in media depictions of mental illness? Implications for forensic psychiatry.(United Kingdom, New Zealand)

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Psychiatry, Psychology and Law
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November 1, 2006
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This article offers a practical account of intertextuality and its impacts on media portrayals of violent crimes by persons living with a mental illness. We analysed interrelationships across reports, on the same page, of violent crimes by two different individuals diagnosed with a mental illness. The materials were drawn from a practically complete, prospectively collected national sample of print materials (600 items). Reports utilised complementary understandings of mental illness as either pushing a competent person out of control or as associated with routine incompetence and violent criminal action. Three themes relevant to forensic psychiatrists were identified: ... 







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