Mental Health and Mental Illness In Popular Culture

Please consider submitting a completed and well-written chapter for an anthology at the intersection of popular culture and mental health/mental illness. The chapter would be 7500-8500 words, in Chicago style with full citations and relevant endnotes. Suggested topics include:

Depictions of mental health and mental illness (American or International) in
• Movies, television or animation
• Literature, comics or graphic novels
• Music and musicals A
• Advertising
• Sports
• Religion
• Media representations of psychotherapy, counseling or psychiatry
• Political Movements
• Education
• Consumer Products
Famous cultural and historical figures that have impacted the confluence of mental health and mental illness through
• Social movements and social reform
• Electronic media
• Scientific study
• Business
• Religion

If interested, please send an abstract of no more than 250 words (along with curriculum vitae) through email to

Lawrence C. Rubin, Ph.D.
Professor of Counselor Education
St. Thomas University
lrubin@stu.edu