Every Family in the Land: Understanding Prejudice and Discrimination against People with Mental Illness

Ed Arthur Crisp

Sir Robert Mond Memorial Trust, Royal Society of Medicine, Royal College of Psychiatrists

ISBN 0 9541314 0 1

Electronic book (pp 464) available free on www.stigma.org/everyfamily

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