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Celebrity triggers tumult over psychiatric care: Did the news media make things worse?

Title: Celebrity triggers tumult over psychiatric care: Did the news media make things worse?
Date: Thursday, 1 September 2005
Publisher: Psychiatric Times
Author: Michael Jonathan Grinfeld
Main source: psychiatrictimes.com

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Take years of research, clinical observations, technological advancements and scientific discovery, and then subject them to derision and skepticism during a celebrity rant that's part of a promotional tour for an upcoming movie, and suddenly it's a media event. Sounds odd, but it describes what happened after Tom Cruise decided to take on psychiatry while hawking his new movie, War of the Worlds, and the news media decided to turn the story into the latest shouting match for talking heads. While ... [Read the rest at psychiatrictimes.com]