Paradigms Lost: Fighting Stigma and the Lessons Learned

by Heather L. Stuart, Norman Sartorius, Julio Arboleda-Flórez

Book Overview

Paradigms Lost challenges key paradigms currently held about the prevention or reduction of stigma attached to mental illness using evidence and the experience the authors gathered during the many years of their work in this field. Each chapter examines one currently held paradigm and presents reasons why it should be replaced with a new perspective. The book argues for enlightened opportunism (using every opportunity to fight stigma), rather than...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199797633
• ISBN13: 9780199797639
• Release Date: May 2012
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.2" x 9.3"