Every Family in the Land
Subtitle: Understanding Prejudice And Discrimination Against People With Mental Illness
Edition: Rev. Ed edition
Publisher: Royal Society of Medicine Press
Published: January 2004
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 446
ISBN-13: 9781853155734
Subjects: Illness & addiction: social aspects; Mental health services; Psychiatry - General; Medical; Medical / Nursing; Recovery; Mental Health; Psychopathology - Addiction; Mental Disorders; Mentally Ill Persons; Prejudice
First sentence: If stigma is, in Goffman's definition, "the situation of the individual who is disqualified from full social acceptance", historically speaking the mentally ill have borne the brunt of stigma more than most other disadvantaged groups.