<p>How has Hollywood protrayed Mental Institutions? And what understanding of Mental Health does these portrayals reproduce in the current media? In this episode we talk about The Snake Pit, One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest and Girl, Interrupted. Two films focused on women in mental institutions and one of men, all of them with a very clear focus on the way society has dealt with the mind and its many issues.</p>

How has Hollywood protrayed Mental Institutions? And what understanding of Mental Health does these portrayals reproduce in the current media? In this episode we talk about The Snake Pit, One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest and Girl, Interrupted. Two films focused on women in mental institutions and one of men, all of them with a very clear focus on the way society has dealt with the mind and its many issues.

14. Mental Institutions

3 Ways from Sunday is a podcast hosted by three media-obsessed women. Join Ari, Laura and Gabby each week as they talk about one topic they are interested in through three different pieces of media, sometimes films, sometimes television, sometimes music and maybe even literature? Stick around to find out!
Every Sunday a new episode will take them to uncharted conversations around known media that will keep the discussion going as they explore the different points of view that arise from their distinct outlooks.

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3 Ways from Sunday is a podcast hosted by three media-obsessed women. Join Ari, Laura and Gabby each week as they talk about one topic they are interested in through three different pieces of media, sometimes films, sometimes television, sometimes music and maybe even literature? Stick around to find out! Every Sunday a new episode will take them to uncharted conversations around known media that will keep the discussion going as they explore the different points of view that arise from their distinct outlooks.

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14. Mental Institutions

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