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Mental illness stigma.

Publication: Social Work
Publication Date: 01-APR-06 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: Mental illness stigma.(LETTERS)(Letter to the editor)

Article Excerpt
I was delighted to see the commentary by Pat Corrigan and colleagues in the October 2005 issue of Social Work. Corrigan, Watson, Byrne, and Davis (2005) rightly pointed out the dangers of an overly biomedical approach in attempts to eliminate mental illness stigma. I also have long felt that the emphasis on mental illnesses as brain disorders leads to the public perception of individuals with these illnesses as helpless and unable to...

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