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This was interesting to me mabye some of you will be interested too...Mind Matters
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Hollywood alert: Making movies about mental illness is now a bit trickier. New muscles for the mentally ill are patrolling the beach of public safety and patients' rights.
Fifteen years ago, the National Alliance for the Mentally Ill
(NAMI) and the National Mental Health Association (now called Mental Health America, MHA) looked weak next to the robust American Heart Association and the American Cancer Society.
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But in mid-March, 14 mental health advocacy organizations, including NAMI ands MHA, publicly challenged the film promoters After Dark to cancel the proposed ad campaign for the comedy "Wristcutters: A Love Story."
Due to be launched this spring prior to the August release of the award-winning film, the ad campaign planned graphic images from the film of acts of suicide.
Not so fast and not so funny, says the Suicide Prevention Action Network USA (SPAN USA), which spearheads this challenge to After Dark as part of its "Teachable Moments" campaign.
Their challenge argues that the proposed ads will contribute to the "contagion effect" from misleading suicide publicity.
Their lesson comes from "Reporting on Suicide: Recommendations for the Media," a recent set of guidelines from the U.S. Surgeon General's office. The evidence that misleading publicity about suicide contributes to the contagion of suicidal behaviors is supported in these recommendations by 27 research references.
In response, Courtney Solomon, co-owner of After Dark, has agreed to delay the ad campaign until July, to preview the film with representatives of the 14 mental health organizations and to consider recommendations from them.
Solomon's the one on the hot seat, but he's not the only one benefiting from this "teachable moment." Severe illness, recognized or not, is the unglamorous truth behind suicide. And misleading images of suicide ripple more widely than we imagine.
Lawson Wulsin is a professor of psychiatry and family medicine at the University of Cincinnati. E-mail lawson.wulsin@uc.edu.
BY LAWSON WULSIN | ENQUIRER CONTRIBUTOR
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Hollywood alert: Making movies about mental illness is now a bit trickier. New muscles for the mentally ill are patrolling the beach of public safety and patients' rights.
Fifteen years ago, the National Alliance for the Mentally Ill
(NAMI) and the National Mental Health Association (now called Mental Health America, MHA) looked weak next to the robust American Heart Association and the American Cancer Society.
ADVERTISEMENT
But in mid-March, 14 mental health advocacy organizations, including NAMI ands MHA, publicly challenged the film promoters After Dark to cancel the proposed ad campaign for the comedy "Wristcutters: A Love Story."
Due to be launched this spring prior to the August release of the award-winning film, the ad campaign planned graphic images from the film of acts of suicide.
Not so fast and not so funny, says the Suicide Prevention Action Network USA (SPAN USA), which spearheads this challenge to After Dark as part of its "Teachable Moments" campaign.
Their challenge argues that the proposed ads will contribute to the "contagion effect" from misleading suicide publicity.
Their lesson comes from "Reporting on Suicide: Recommendations for the Media," a recent set of guidelines from the U.S. Surgeon General's office. The evidence that misleading publicity about suicide contributes to the contagion of suicidal behaviors is supported in these recommendations by 27 research references.
In response, Courtney Solomon, co-owner of After Dark, has agreed to delay the ad campaign until July, to preview the film with representatives of the 14 mental health organizations and to consider recommendations from them.
Solomon's the one on the hot seat, but he's not the only one benefiting from this "teachable moment." Severe illness, recognized or not, is the unglamorous truth behind suicide. And misleading images of suicide ripple more widely than we imagine.
Lawson Wulsin is a professor of psychiatry and family medicine at the University of Cincinnati. E-mail lawson.wulsin@uc.edu.
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Wow! It's good to know that people are on top of this sort of thing. Thanks for the article.
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Wow!
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thanks for the info...hugs
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ah yes....and may we stand strong to the movement against stigmatism! Bring on the knowledge....I love being a sponge in my recovery! Thank you!
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