Portrayal of depression and other mental
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Catherine Francis; Jane Pirkis; R. Warwick Blood; David Dunt; Philip Burgess; Be
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Article
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2005
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John Wiley and Sons
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English
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## Abstract This study describes Australian media portrayal of mental illnesses, focusing on depression. A random sample of 1,123 items was selected for analysis from a pool of 13,389 nonfictional media items about mental illness collected between March 2000 and February 2001. Depression was portra