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Subjective accounts of the causes of mental illness in the USA.

The International journal of social psychiatry - 1 Nov 2012

Elliott Marta, Maitoza Robyn, Schwinger Erik

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BACKGROUND: Psychiatrists and advocates for persons with mental illness in the USA argue that the biomedical model of mental illness as a brain disease is both accurate and effective in reducing stigma. Few studies have queried individuals diagnosed with mental illness to determine the extent to which they define their condition as biologically based versus caused by social and psychological factors. METHOD:...

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PMID: 21807811
DOI: 10.1177/0020764011415207

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