Abstract

Society has always needed scapegoats. Mentally ill people living in the community are the most recent, but unlikely to be the last, in a long line of minority groups that society seeks to blame for its problems.1 Unfortunately there is more than a grain of truth in the public perception that mental illnesses are both unpleasant for the sufferer and can have damaging consequences for others.

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