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Beating the Mental Health Treatment Stigma - ABC News
mentalhopenews.blogspot.com May 8, 2008
By RICHARD DeVAUL, M.D. Professor of Psychiatry, Texas A&M May 7, 2008— "and one flew east, one flew west, one flew over the cuckoo's nest." So starts the famous book chronicling our mental health system in the 1950s, best known for Jack Nicholson's portrayal of a sane but wild inmate in the...
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