Anti-stigma Campaigns as a Solution to the Crisis of Mental Health Care
Even when proven ineffective, anti-stigma campaigns are valuable as distractions from the need for more resources for grossly unfunded mental health services for the severely mentally impaired.
Anti-stigma campaigns and the Wokification[1] of American suicide prevention
A version of the present article was originally published on 20 March 2017 on the “Mind the Brain/Quick Thoughts” blog of Emeritus Penn Professor James C. Coyne. The article is now inaccessible because of deliberate damage done to the Coyne of the Realm WordPress site where archives are maintained.
The 2017 article delivered a clear message about the lack of evidence that anti-stigma campaigns have much potential for improving depression outcomes or for reducing the risk of death by suicide at the level of the individual or the general population.