Psychiatry and the Media Committee

The Committee focuses on the intersections between the media and psychiatry

About Our Committee

GAP’s Committee on Psychiatry and the Media:

  • promotes accurate representations of mental health issues and psychiatrists in the media

  • challenges distorted representations of mental health issues and psychiatrists in the media

  • improves communications between psychiatrists and the public via a range of traditional and new media

  • creates messaging to reduce public stigma surrounding mental illness and getting psychiatric treatment

  • increases public awareness of GAP’s history and current importance in advancing the field of psychiatry.

  • helps GAP committees and members to more effectively reach out and communicate with the public

  • helps GAP committees and members to more effectively reach out and communicate with each other

Psychiatry & Media

Co-Chairs: Carol Bernstein, MD and Jack Drescher, MD