Dr. Jeffrey Lieberman in Psychology Today

Homeland is not only one of the best shows on television, but one of the best fictional portrayals of mental illness. Why do I say this? The award-winning Showtime cable TV series starring Claire Danes as Carrie Mathison, a CIA agent withbipolar disorder (formerly called manic-depressive illness), tells a spellbinding story of espionage and counterterrorism in the middle and Far East, but also accurately depicts mental illness as it occurs in real life (albeit in the shadowy subculture of clandestine operations). 
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