title: [Psychiatry in newspapers].
abstract: What Norwegian 10 leading newspapers wrote about psychiatry was systematically examined during the first half year of 1991. Of 265 contributions 79% showed a positive or neutral attitude towards psychiatry. The number of contributions varied considerably between newspapers. Most of the articles (72%) were written by journalists; mental health professionals had produced only 8%. Negative contributions were written mainly by organized anti-psychiatric circles, and primarily attacked biological psychiatric treatment. Otherwise, the articles on psychiatry in the papers in general were without prejudices and show a satisfactory level of knowledge about psychiatry.
authors.affiliation: Psykiatrisk institutt, Universitetet i Oslo.
authors.forename: I
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Kjøk
authors.forename: A A
authors.initials: AA
authors.lastname: Dahl
mesh_terms: D001290:Attitude; D006801:Humans; D009524:Newspapers as Topic; D009664:Norway; D011570:Psychiatry / Q000706:statistics & numerical data
vernacular_title: Psykiatri i avisene.