Margarita Tartakovsky Summary

The author, Margarita Tartakovsky argues about how the media influence people with generating stigma over mentally illness people. By giving the multiple example of influential method that media use, she makes a good point about the negative impact on the image of mental illness. Oversimplification or generalization, overwhelmed and damaged fiction, of mental illness lead public not only includes the adults but also the children to have a bias toward the field of mental health. There can be a multiple factors that can explain how and why people have stigma. However, Margarita claims that the main factor of stigma is the influence of media. And one way to defend ourselves from inaccurate information is that we need to know what the mechanism