Today I want and saw Shutter Island. I'm not going to go into any spoilers or anything, but you should all go and see this movie. It is a very well done movie on a number of levels, but I think it is more interesting for psychologists because of the setting in a 1954 mental institute.
The reason that I think this belongs here is because there is a theme brought up a couple of times during the film about prejudice toward those with mental illness. Once a person is labeled as having a mental illness there is pretty much nothing they can do to get rid of the label. It is different than being of a different race or gender because it is a diagnosis, so people feel they have more of a justification for prejudice against those with mental illness. The film also points out that in a lot of cases if a person trys to argue that they don't have the illness it feeds into the diagnosis, or people just won't listen to them because they are labeled as mentally ill.
I know that Dr. Brown does some research on the stigma that people have toward the mental illness, but I don't know about any research being done concerning discrimination against them. I'm sure it is happening somewhere, I just haven't seen it.
The reason that I think this belongs here is because there is a theme brought up a couple of times during the film about prejudice toward those with mental illness. Once a person is labeled as having a mental illness there is pretty much nothing they can do to get rid of the label. It is different than being of a different race or gender because it is a diagnosis, so people feel they have more of a justification for prejudice against those with mental illness. The film also points out that in a lot of cases if a person trys to argue that they don't have the illness it feeds into the diagnosis, or people just won't listen to them because they are labeled as mentally ill.
I know that Dr. Brown does some research on the stigma that people have toward the mental illness, but I don't know about any research being done concerning discrimination against them. I'm sure it is happening somewhere, I just haven't seen it.
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