Attitudes towards psychiatric treatment and people with mental illness: Changes over two decades

British Journal of Psychiatry

Volumn 203, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 146-151

  Angermeyer, Matthias C ^a,b   Matschinger, Herbert ^c,d   Schomerus, Georg ^e  

^a Center for Public Mental Health   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAGLIARI   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY OF GREIFSWALD   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PSYCHOTROPIC AGENT;

ALCOHOLISM; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; ATTITUDE TO ILLNESS; DEPRESSION; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; PSYCHOTHERAPY; SCHIZOPHRENIA;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; FEMALE; GERMANY; HUMANS; MALE; MENTAL DISORDERS; MENTALLY ILL PERSONS; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT ACCEPTANCE OF HEALTH CARE; PSYCHIATRY; PSYCHOTHERAPY; PUBLIC OPINION; SOCIAL STIGMA; STEREOTYPING;

EID: 84881180921     PISSN: 00071250     EISSN: 14721465     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1192/bjp.bp.112.122978     Document Type: Article

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