People with mental illness are among the most stigmatized and discriminated against as a result of lack of knowledge among the public. Our study explored adolescents' perceptions of people with mental illness through drawings, described these perceptions, and tested the possible changes in perceptions ...
For the 75th anniversary of WW2, the world’s most famous creative minds in virtual illustration have taken part in adapting drawings made by Russian kids during the Siege of Leningrad in toimmersive Virtual Reality paintings. The global team of VR artists — Sutu (Australia), Rosie Summers (...
Various dimensions of AIDS stigma are shaped by wider power inequalities (Parker & Aggleton, 2003). These dimensions may include the fear of physical contagion (instrumental stigma), the association of AIDS with immorality and shame (symbolic stigma), the idea that AIDS-affected people do not ...
To clarify the validity and utility of this tool, drawings by people from the general population should be compared with the previously collected drawings from the people with somatoform disorder. Before this comparison can be made, it is necessary to test the assumption that objective ...
Don’t get ahead of yourself—whenever I do that, I always skip a step. People used to ask me why I always walked with my eyes on the ground—and I would answer that I didn’t like to step in dog-poo. Ah the good old days, when picking up after our pets was considered beneath...
Diary Drawings: Mental Illness and Medoi:10.1080/02615479.2012.695465IanHafotyLwydWilliamsHafotyLwydInformaworldSocial Work Education: The International Journal
VETERANS with mental illnessAGE & intelligencePEOPLE with schizophreniaSEX chromosomesThis article focuses on a study of sex differentiation in drawings and verbalizations of schizophrenics. The subjects for the study consisted of forty unselected schizophrenic patients, mainly paranoid, from a ...
Making the agony visible.(Diary Drawings: Mental Illness and Me)(Book review)Hornstein, Gail A
She was happy to oblige.The 2012 graphic memoir chronicles her life from 1998 to 2002, when she was diagnosed with what used to be called manic-depressive illness and sought the psychiatric help that soon became her lifeline.Ms. Forney, now 45, said she first began thinking about a book ...