Professor Norman Sartorius, President
of the Association for the Improvement of Mental Health Programs and former
director of the World Health Organisation’s Division of Mental Health presented a lecture on The Stigma of Mental Illness, broadcast recently on ABC Radio's Big Ideas series. About one in five Australians experiences a mental illness at some stage of their life, and Professor Sartorius argues that stigma remains the main obstacle to progress in the field of mental health. He asks why stigma is so difficult to overcome, provides many disturbing examples, and discusses ways we can develop interventions against it.
You can download the audio, or listen online at the link above.
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