Jim Carrey.Jim Carrey's new film "Me, Myself & Irene" isn't winning good reviews from the mental health community. "Seems as if Hollywood has done it again, making big bucks off the backs and broken brains of people with mental illness," John Blamphin, a spokesman for the American Psychiatric Association The American Psychiatric Association (APA) is the main professional organization of psychiatrists and trainee psychiatrists in the United States, and the most influential world-wide. Its some 148,000 members are mainly American but some are international. , wrote in an e-mail to the nation's film critics. "From what I've read, Carrey's depiction of a person with schizophrenia schizophrenia (skĭt'səfrē`nēə), group of severe mental disorders characterized by reality distortions resulting in unusual thought patterns and behaviors. trivializes a severe, crippling crip·ple n. 1. A person or animal that is partially disabled or unable to use a limb or limbs: cannot race a horse that is a cripple. 2. A damaged or defective object or device. tr.v. , life-wrecking illness with a high incidence of suicide, makes a clown clown, a comic character usually distinguished by garish makeup and costume whose antics are both humorously clumsy and acrobatic. The clown employs a broad, physical style of humor that is wordless or not as self-consciously verbal as the traditional fool or jester. out of a 'schizophrenic,' and is factually wrong." The film opens June 21. Fox officials declined to comment. Robert Bucksbaum, president of Reel Source Inc., which follows box-office returns, estimates the comedy will generate $130 million, much of that on its opening weekend. |
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