Psychiatric settings are often used simply to advance to plot:
The psychiatric setting is used in media for 1) the entertainment value complete with distortions and 2) in terms of story development, the setting can often provide insights/information into a character that couldn’t be gleaned in other ways–though this is more true in terms of written/literary plots where point of view limits access to information.
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