Patrick Corrigan is Distinguished Professor of Psychology at the Illinois Institute of Technology. He has authored or edited fifteen books, including On the Stigma of Mental Illness: Practical Strategies for Research and Social Change (American Psychological Association Press, 2005); Challenging the Stigma of Mental Illness: Lessons for Advocates and Therapists (Wiley, 2011); and The Stigma of Disability and Disease: Empirical Models and Implications for Change (APA, 2014).Patrick W. Corrigan is Distinguished Professor of Psychology at the Illinois Institute of Technology. He is principal investigator of the National Consortium for Stigma and Empowerment. His books include The Stigma of Disease and Disability (2014).

Larry Davidson, Yale University School of Medicine:
This is a special book. Not only does Corrigan provide the best introduction to mental illness that I have seen, as well as providing concrete guidance on how to end the stigma associated with it, but by interweaving his own experiences, Corrigan offers the academic community a new and inspiring model for disseminating our work in a more engaging and effective way. The result is a book that raises the bar for the rest of us.

Robert Whitaker, author of Anatomy of an Epidemic: Magic Bullets, Psychiatric Drugs, and the Astonishing Rise of Mental Illness:
How do we, as a society, reduce stigmatization of the seriously mentally ill? As Patrick Corrigan persuasively argues in this thorough inquiry into the subject, we should listen to their stories, for then we will discover fellow human beings, and not the “other” we fear.