Health, Sports & Psychology
Homeland, Carrie and how mental health is portrayed on-screen
...out at her superiors and threatening to release classified material about the agency to the press, she is involuntarily detained at a psychiatric hospital. She is heavily medicated to the point of speech impairment. This is explained by the writers as having been a deliberate act devised by Mathison and mentor Saul to lure out their enemies. But this particular narrative...