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Stigma against mental illness is a scourge with many faces, and the medical community wears a number of those faces.

Elyn R. Saks

Stigma against mental illness is a scourge with many faces, and the medical community wears a number of those faces.

Tags: diagnosis, medical profession, mental disorder, mental health professionals, mental health stigma, mental illness

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About Elyn R. Saks

Elyn R. Saks is associate dean and Orrin B. Evans Professor of Law, Psychology, and Psychiatry and the Behavioral Sciences at the University of Southern California Gould Law School, an expert in mental health law, and a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship winner. Saks lives with schizophrenia and has written about her experience with the illness in her award-winning best-selling autobiography, The Center Cannot Hold, published by Hyperion Books in 2007. She is also a cancer survivor.