Tài liệu Báo cáo y học: "Stigmatising attitude of medical students towards a psychiatry label."

In most societies mental illness carries a substantialstigma [1,2]. The mentally ill are often blamed for bringing on their own illnesses, while others may see them asvictims of unfortunate fate, religious and moral transgression, or even witchcraft. Such stigma may lead to denialon the part of the family that one of their members is psy-chiatrically ill. Some families may hide or overprotect amember with mental illness, thus keeping the personfrom receiving potentially effective care.