Use of Schizophrenia as a Metaphor in U.S. Newspapers,NAMI

Use of Schizophrenia as a Metaphor in U.S. Newspapers
Kenneth Duckworth, M.D

"The authors suggest that these inaccurate metaphors in the media contribute to the ongoing stigma and misunderstandings of psychotic illnesses." 2003

Awakenings with the New Antipsychotics, by Kenneth Duckworth, M.D. May 1998

"We interviewed 15 long-term outpatients with schizophrenia or schizoaffective disorder who were living in the community and who had shown significant clinical improvement on these new compounds. Our findings were published in the November/December 1997 issue of the Harvard Review of Psychiatry."

Dr. Ken Duckworth serves as the medical director for the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI).

"First serving as Acting Commissioner of Mental Health and the Medical Director for Department of Mental Health of Massachusetts, then as a psychiatrist on a Program Assertive Community Treatment team, Dr. Duckworth was also Medical Director of the Massachusetts Mental Health Center for eight years."

Dr. Duckworth won the award for Clinical Excellence from the Massachusetts Psychiatric Society as well as teaching awards from Boston University, for his work at Harvard Medical School, and from the American Psychiatric Association."

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