Contents

• The impact of mental illness stigma / Patrick W. Corrigan and Petra Kleinlein
• Methods for studying stigma and mental illness / Kenneth A. Rasinki, Peter Viechnicki and Colm O’Muircheartaigh
• First-person accounts of stigma / Beth Angell, Andrea Cooke, and Kelly Kovac
• Social psychological models of mental illness stigma / Victor Ottati, Galen Bodenhausen, and Leonard Newman
• Sociological models of mental illness stigma: progress and prospects / Fred E. Markowitz
• A social-cognitive model of personal responses to stigma / Amy C. Watson and L. Phillip River
• Mental illness and dangerousness: fact or misperception, and implications for stigma / Patrick W. Corrigan and Amy E. Cooper
• Senseless crimes: sin or sickness? Implications for mental illness stigma / Patrick W. Corrigan and Amy C. Watson
• Stigma and the police / Amy C. Watson, Victor Ottati, Art Lurigio, and Mark Heyrman
• Stigma and substance use disorders / Kenneth A. Rasinski, Pamela Woll, and Andrea Cooke
• Strategies for assessing and diminishing self-stigma / Patrick W. Corrigan and Joseph D. Calabrese
• Dealing with stigma through personal disclosure / Patrick W. Corrigan
• Challenging public stigma: a targeted approach / Amy C. Watson and Patrick W. Corrigan
• Changing stigma through the media / Margaret Sullivan, Thomas Hamilton, and Herbert Allen
• Mental illness stigma as social injustice : yet another dream to be achieved / Patrick W. Corrigan