Mind frames in nollywood: Frames of mental illness in nigerian home videos

Research Journal of Medical Sciences

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 166-171

  Atilola, Olayinka ^a   Olayiwola, Funmilayo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IBADAN   (Nigeria)

Author keywords

Home videos; Mental illness; Nigeria; Nigerian films; Preternatural forces; Supernatural forces

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; HEALTH EDUCATION; HUMAN; MENTAL DISEASE; MENTAL HEALTH; MENTAL HEALTH CARE; NIGERIA; VIDEOTAPE;

EID: 79954501476     PISSN: 18159346     EISSN: 19936095     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3923/rjmsci.2011.166.171     Document Type: Article

References (33)

1. Abiodun, O.A., 1995. Pathways to mental health care in Nigeria. Psychiatr. Serv., 46: 823-826.
2. Adelekan, M.L., A.B. Makanjuola and R. J. Ndom, 2001. Traditional mental health practitioners in Kwara State, Nigeria. East Afr. Med. J., 78: 190-196.
3. Adewuya, A. and R. Makanjuola, 2009. Preferred treatment for mental illness among Southwestern Nigerians. Psychiatric Serv., 60: 121-124.
4. Aina, O.F. and D.A. Olorunshola, 2008. Alcohol and substance use portrayals in Nigerian video tapes: An analysis of 479 films and implications for public drug education. Int. Q. Commnn. Health Educ, 28: 63-71.
5. Aina, O.F., 2004. Mental illness and cultural issues in West African films: Implications for orthodox psychiatric practice. Med. Humanities, 30: 23-26.
6. Corrigan, P.W. and D.L. Perm, 1999. Lessons from social psychology on discrediting psychiatric stigma. Am. Psychol., 54: 765-776.
7. Entman, R.M., 1993. Framing: Toward clarification of a fractured paradigm. J. Commun., 43: 51-58.
8. Gerbner, G., L. Gross, M. Morgan, N. Signorieli, J. Shanahan, J. Bryant and D. Zillmann, 2002. Media Effects. Lawrence Erlbaum Associates Publishers, USA.
9. Gureje, O., R.A. Acha and O.A. Odejide, 1995. Pathways to psychiatric care in Ibadan, Nigeria. Trop. Geographic Med., 47: 125-129.
10. Gureje, O., V.O. Lasebikan, O. Ephraim-Oluwanuga, B.O. Olley and L. Kola, 2005. Community study of knowledge of and attitude to mental illness in Nigeria. Br. J. Psychiatry, 186: 436-441.
11. Hafferty, F.W. and S. Foster, 1994. Decontextualizing disability in the crime mystery genre: The case of the invisible handicap. Disability Soc, 9: 185-206.
12. Haynes, J., 2007. Video boom: Nigeria and Ghana. Postcolonial Text, 3: 1-10.
13. Jegede, A.S., 2005. The notion of were in Yoruba conception of mental illness. Nordic J. Afr. Stud., 14: 117-126.
14. Johnson, T., 1998. Shattuck lecture-medicine and the media. New England J. Med., 339: 87-92.
15. Jorm, A.F., 2000. Mental health literacy. Br. Med. J., 177: 396-401.
16. Jorm, A.F., A.E. Korten, P.A. Jacomb, H. Christensen, B. Rodgers and P. Pollitt, 1997. Mental health literacy: A survey of the public's ability to recognise mental disorders and their beliefs about the effectiveness of treatment. Med. J. Aust, 166: 182-186.
17. Klin, A. and D. Lemish, 2008. Mental disorders stigma in the media: Review of studies on production, content and influences. J. Health Commun., 13: 434-449.
18. Klin, A., 2001. Crime and punishment? The AIDS narrative in the daily press in Israel, 1981-1995 as a cultural construction of a disease. Ph.D. Thesis, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
19. Lambo, T.A., 1978. Psychotherapy in Africa. Hum. Nat, 1: 32-39.
20. Lipczynska, S., 2005. Stigma web review. J. Mental Health, 14: 423-425.
21. Makanjuola, R.O.A., 1987. Yoruba healers in psychiatry 1 management of psychiatry disorders. Afr. J. Med. Sci., 16: 61-73.
22. McCombs, M., 1994. News Influence on our Pictures of the World. In: Media Effects Advances in Theory and Research, Bryant, J. andD. Zillmann (Eds.). Lawernce Erlbaum Associates Publishers, USA., pp: 1-16.
23. Morakinyo, O. and A. Akiwowo, 1981. The Yoruba ontology of personality and motivation: A multidisciplinary study. J. Soc. Biol. Structure, 4: 19-38.
24. Odejide, A.O., L.K. Oyewunmi and J.U Ohaen, 1989. Psychiatry in Africa: An overview. Am. J. Psychiatry, 146: 708-716.
25. Odejide, O.A., A.O. Sanda and M.O. Olatawura, 1978. Some socio-psychiatric attributes of patients utilizing the facilities of traditional healers in the city of Ibadan. Trop. Geographical Med., 30: 115-119.
26. Pickenhagen, A. and N. Sartorius, 2002. Annotated bibliography of selected publications and other materials related to stigma and discrimination because of mental illness and intervention programmes fighting it. World Psychiatric Association, Geneva.
27. Pradhan, S.C., M.M. Singh, R.A. Singh, J. Das and D. Ram etal., 2001. First care givers of mentally ill patients: A multicenter study. Indian J. Med. Sci., 55: 203-208.
28. Salter, M. and P. Byrne, 2000. The stigma of mental illness: How you can use the media to reduce it. Psychiatrist, 24: 281-283.
29. Sartorius, N., W. Gaebel, H.R. Cleveland, H. Stuart and T. Akiyama et al., 2010. WPA guidance on how to combat stigmatization of psychiatry and psychiatrists. World Psychiatry, 9: 131-144.
30. Sieff, E., 2003. Media frames of mental illnesses: The potential impact of negative frames. J. Mental Health, 12: 259-269.
31. UNESCO Institute for Statistics, 2009. Information sheet No. 1: Analysis of the UIS international survey on feature films statistics. April 2009. http://www.uis.unesco.org/template/pdf/cscl/Infosheet_Nol_cinema_EN.pdf.
32. Wahl, O.F., 2003. News Media Portrayal of Mental Illness: Implications for Public Policy. Am. Behav., 46: 1594-1600.
33. Wahl, O.F., 2004. Stop the Presses: Journalistic Treatment of Mental Illness. In: Cultural Sutures: Medicine and Media, Friedman, L. (Ed.). Duke University Press, Durham, North Carolina, pp: 55-69.