Editors: Eva Tamara Asboth (Austrian Academy of Sciences/Universität Klagenfurt) & Natalie Rodax (Sigmund Freud University Vienna)

Submission of abstracts: 15. April 2024
Submission of full papers: 31. August 2024
Publication of the issue: Issue 2 of 2025

This issue of medien & zeit focuses on the topic of “Mental Health Communication” from a historical perspective that builds a bridge to the present. The aim is to reflect on and discuss public communication about mental health over time. In this context, mental health communication is understood as a comprehensive complex of topics that deals with mental health issues on a cultural, state and systemic level in relation to public participation. The focus lies on negotiation processes within (global and transnational) publics and subpublics. Transfer studies between public and private spaces (such as doctor-patient contact both offline and online) can also be included in the issue as original contributions.