For this project I intend to explore the history of mental asylums, particularly in 1960. I analyse the patients of such mental institutes and compare them to people suffering from similar disabilities in modern day. From this research, I intend to produce a set of images and supporting text that work together to challenge the ideologies of psychology from the 1960's. In particular I will touch upon how people effected by these mental illnesses were treated by family, neighbours and the media. From first look into researching this theme I have already come across painter Richard Dadd, and the film 'Sybil' which should help me to begin further research.

I will use this blog to present my the my finding via Primary and Secondary research. I will also use it to conclude what I have found and how I will apply it to my practice.

Thursday, 6 February 2014

Media and Mental Distress

Philo, G (1996). Media and Mental Distress. United States: Addison Wesley Longman Inc, New York.

Looking at this book helped me to understand further about the media and how it represented mental illness. It relates back to the idea's of postmodern representation and how people consume the mass-media. The theories on postmodernity and how they affect mental illness' are interesting and makes you think about as a consumer society we depend on the media to report to us, and what they do report we don't question to the extent we should.
To Progress:
- To further this research I will look more into the ideologies of Postmodernism, particularly how we consume the media. 
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