STIGMA AND MENTAL ILLNESS: WHY DOES IT EXIST?
One of the most damaging effects of psychiatric illness is the experience of stigma. Stigmatization is the social rejection of those with mental illness. This may be seen in the tendency to ridicule or shun those with mental illness. It is see..
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Moving Beyond a Sense of Guilt
Vol 10 #2 Caroline Giroux, MD, FRCPC Author information: Associate Clinical Professor, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, UC Davis Health System, Sacramento, CA, cgiro[email protected] Every year around December, there seems to be ..
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WE NEED TO FACE 2022 WITH COURAGE AND SCIENTIFIC INTEGRITY
JPR Vol 11 #2 January 5, 2022 Authors Alan Eppel MB, FRCPC Senior Editor Professor of Psychiatry Department of Psychiatry and Behavioural Neurosciences, Michael G. DeGroote School of Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, McMaster Univer..
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Psychiatry Race and Culture
Journal of Psychiatry Reform vol. 10 #2, February 2023 Author Alan Eppel MB, FRCPC Orcid https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4880-4097 Introduction Psychiatry at its core concerns the relationship between people. All diagnostic and therapeutic inter..
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