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Stigma of mental illness

Changing minds, changing behaviour

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Peter Byrne
Peter Byrne*
Affiliation:
St Patrick's Hospital, Dublin 8
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The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 174 , Issue 1 , January 1999 , pp. 1 - 2
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Copyright © 1999 The Royal College of Psychiatrists 

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