Stigma and Mental Illness Book

	Contributors
	Introduction
1	Effects of Stigma on Psychiatric Treatment	1
Sect. I	The Experience of Stigma
2	Stigma: Families Suffer Too	11
3	A Letter From a Resident	13
4	The Stigmatized Patient	17
Sect. II	Historical Aspects of Stigma
5	Shame, Stigma, and Mental Illness in Ancient Greece	29
6	Stigma During the Medieval and Renaissance Periods	41
7	The Devon Asylum: A Brief History of the Changing Concept of Mental Illness and Asylum Treatment	59
8	Madness and the Stigma of Sin in American Christianity	73
Sect. III	Societal Issues
9	The Consequences of Stigma for Persons With Mental Illness: Evidence From the Social Sciences	87
10	Stigma and Stereotype: Homeless Mentally Ill Persons	97
11	Cinematic Stereotypes Contributing to the Stigmatization of Psychiatrists	113
12	The Stigmatized Family	127
13	Fighting Stigma: How to Help the Doctor's Family	139
Sect. IV	Institutional Issues
14	The Stigma of Mental Illness for Medical Students and Residents	153
15	Societal Factors in the Problems Faced by Deinstitutionalized Psychiatric Patients	167
16	The Psychiatric Hospital and Reduction of Stigma	185
17	The Stigma of Electroconvulsive Therapy: A Workshop	189
18	The Stigmatization of Psychiatrists Who Work With Chronically Mentally Ill Persons	203
19	Overcoming Stigma: The Mad Hatters	217
	Index	229