Psychology and More

In Abnormal Psychology, we finished discussing Kay Redfield Jamison’s An Unquiet Mind, in which she writes about the stigma associated with having a mental illness, within research and clinical psychiatry. The British Psychological Society has a blog posting about a recent article which looked at this very issue:

BPS RESEARCH DIGEST: Psychiatrists who treat themselves:

the most common reasons the psychiatrists gave for treating themselves were to keep a clean health insurance record, followed by concerns about the stigma associated with mental illness. This latter finding echoes previous observations about the pervasive stigma associated with mental illness in the medical profession.

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