The mission of the Harvard Medical School Center for Mental Health and Media, an affiliate of Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, is to save lives, comfort and educate families, and to change the public’s outdated and inaccurate perceptions of the nature, causes and treatment of mental illness. To do this we connect some of the most powerful forces in today’s society—the mass media—with one of the most pressing health and economic issues in both the industrialised and underdeveloped worlds: mental health.
