Understanding the Impact of Stigma on People with Mental Illness

Overview

Journal World Psychiatry

Specialty Psychiatry

Date 2006 Sep 2

PMID 16946807

Citations 431

Authors

Patrick W Corrigan

Amy C Watson

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