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alternative models of mental health

Submitted by Paul Grobstein on Fri, 01/29/2010 - 11:23am.

I too was intrigued by the suggestion that "mental illness" as "disease" was not effective at lessening stigma.  That might be worth following up on for a web paper.  For some thoughts about ways to think about mental health in terms other than the "medical model," see Models of mental health: a critique and a prospectus.

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