All exhibits showcasing examples of mental health portrayals across popular media.
Is love blind, obsessive, and compulsive? Effects of using OCD to describe preferences (and attraction) to tidiness, cleanliness and organisation.
Is the depiction of psychiatric hospitals in the popular Jim Carrey film Ace Ventura: Pet Detective (1994) harmful or humorous?
Realistic and relatable: Welcome to Wrexham features two individuals sharing their lived experiences of mental health symptoms and support.
Why was this rock song met with controversy and criticism over its music video?
What are the effects of depicting personal experiences of mental health symptoms alongside stereotypes?
Did the iconic film Psycho (1960) set the precedent for how mental health topics are portrayed in the media?
An example of derogatory mental health language in pop music or evidence of how psychiatric language is changing?
Guests with irrational phobias are featured on Maury (1991-1998). Whilst help is offered, is making fun of their distress appropriate and useful?
A woman with a custard phobia features on This Morning (2022). Therapy is effective but are her mental health symptoms appropriate for entertainment?
Split (2016) presents various different aspects of dissociative identity disorder, ultimately descending into the violent, extreme, and supernatural.
