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Chapter 5 - Responses to Stigma among People Diagnosed with Mental Illnesses

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 December 2017

Philip T. Yanos
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City University of New York
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Mental Health Stigma and the Loss of Human Potential
, pp. 90 - 116
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2018

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