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psycho
Title: psycho
Category: Literature / English
Details: Words: 820 | Pages: 3.5 (approximately 235 words/page)
psycho
“A Psychotic Killer Sues His Psychiatrist”
--Time Magazine
“…Take that, you bastard!” This quote from Wendell Williamson is presented in large, bold text at the bottom of this Time magazine article. Such is the portrayal of Williamson in an attempt to give us a glimpse into this “psychotic” killer’s mind. Williamson, who suffered from a mental illness involving delusions, shot and killed two people in 1995. In this article, however, Williamson is misrepresented repeatedly. Williamson …showed first 75 words of 820 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 820 total…be insane is passively mentioned. The focus is instead but on the outrageousness of his lawsuit against Dr. Liptzin, and the killings he committed. This article as a whole provokes misunderstanding and fear of the mentally ill as one victim is exploited. A reader of this article has a good chance of equating mental illness with criminal activity in the future. The media, in this case, does quite a disservice to the mental health community.
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