Media Review

Running head: MEDIA REVIEW 1
Media Review
Name
Institution

MEDIA REVIEW 2
Outline
1. Introduction
2. The Publication
3. Use of Psychological Theories in the Analysis, Understanding, and Interpretation of the
Publication
4. Conclusion
5. References

MEDIA REVIEW 3
Media Review
Introduction
Mental ill-health is one of the major issues of concern to the public health sector not only
within this country, but across the globe. There are many mental illnesses that do affect people in
the society. Some of them include depression, Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), bipolar,
alcohol addiction disorder, anxiety, and many others. The massive impacts of these disorders on
the people have made them to receive lots of coverage in the media. Over the years, writers have
published books, book chapters, and journal, magazine, and newspaper articles on such mental
illnesses. This paper uses Jeannette Walls’ Glass Castle and the behavioral, cognitive, and
psychoanalytic theories to present an in-depth and critical analysis of the psychology of mental
disorders. The behavioral, cognitive, and psychoanalytic theories justify the prevalence of mental
illness as captured in the media.
The Publication
Glass Castle is a novel that was written by Jeannette Walls and published in the year
2005. It is a memoir in which Walls gave a comprehensive analysis of her background as an
ordinary black-American lady right from her childhood, through teenage, to adulthood. In this
memoir, the author uses an opportunity to expound on the kind of relationship that existed in her
family between herself and her father Rex, mother Rose Mary, siblings, age mates, classmates,
and the rest of the community members with whom they interacted (Walls, 2005). The memoir
gives a comprehensive account of the turbulent life that Walls and her siblings went through in
the hands of their impoverished, irresponsible, and the mentally-ill parents who never did much
to give them the right kind of upbringing that the children deserved.