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Special theme for this issue [Journal of Ethics in Mental Health, vol. 2, issue 2, 2007]
Glannon, Walter
Glannon, Walter
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"Psychiatric and neurological disorders affect roughly 400 million people globally. In June 2004, the Journal of the American Medical Association published the results from the world’s largest survey on mental health. From one to five percent of the populations of most countries surveyed have some form of mental illness. More recently, results from a US study on mental illness published in June 2005 showed that about half of all Americans will have conditions that meet criteria of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders over the course of their lifetime. Yet many neurological and psychiatric conditions are not well understood by the general public. Indeed, some of these conditions are not well understood by many mental health professionals. [...]", p. 1
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2007-11
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