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MENTAL DISORDERS: POPULAR MYTHS 8.1 Vocabulary synonyms • nouns from verbs • paraphrasing
A Discuss the following questions. 1 What does the word insanity mean to you?
2 Which words in box a are correct psychological terms and which words are colloquial? What do they mean?
B What stereotypes are depicted in headlines A–D on the textbook page opposite?
C Look up each noun in box b in a dictionary. 1 Is it countable, uncountable or both?
2 What is its psychological meaning? 3 What is a good synonym? 4 What useful grammatical information can you find?
D Study the two lists of verbs in box c. 1 Match the verbs with similar meanings.
2 Make nouns from the verbs if possible. E Look at the Hadford University handout.
1 How does the writer restate each section heading within the paragraph?
2 Find synonyms for the blue words and phrases. Use a dictionary if necessary.
3 Rewrite each sentence to make paraphrases of the texts. Use:
synonyms you have found yourself synonyms from Exercise C
the nouns you made in Exercise D passives where possible
any other words that are necessary
Example: Melodramatic headlines in the press can affect sales considerably.
Ë Newspapers sell far more when they have sensational headlines.
F Study the chart on the page opposite.
1 Look up the definitions of the types of crime represented in the chart.
2 What crime is most commonly committed by people with mental disorders? Why do you think this is?
62 Stereotypes of mental illness
A Sensationalism in the press Melodramatic headlines in the newspapers improve sales.With this in mind, the press exploits primitive emotions, such as fear and aggression, by representing mentally ill people as dangerous and antisocial. This is achieved in two main ways: by linking mental illness to violent crime, and by using specific language to perpetuate misconceptions of mental disorder.
B Mental health and violence There is a popular belief that people who suffer from mental disorders are violent. This is not supported by research, which has found that intimidating behaviour characterizes only a small number of patients suffering fromacute psychotic episodes.
b
a
autistic crazy deranged insane lunatic
psychotic retarded mad abuse delusion
dissociation episode frenzy imbalance mood pact
psychosis suicide syndrome
c 12 characterize expel
spread connect
exploit link
perpetuate propagate vary
eliminate display
lose touch (with) continue manifest
be detached (from) differ define
take advantage of
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