We were very excited to be contacted by Professor Rob Whitley, member of the faculty of Psychiatry at McGill University. We had referenced his research regarding media misportrayals of men with mental illness in this July post:

Christie Blatchford: Media and courts treat women like delicate little flowers instead of full human beings
Professor Whitley kindly granted us permission to post fascinating recent research from just a few months ago in an article co-authored with colleagues Ademola Adeponle and Anna Rose Miller in the journal Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology

Comparing gendered and generic representations of mental illness in Canadian newspapers: an exploration of the chivalry hypothesis