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By Snow-Leavis Posted on Nov 11, 2019November 11, 2019

“Working with the Government”

These ‘100 words’ by Professor Louis Appleby were published in the British Journal of Psychiatry in September 2008.

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Categories: History of medicine, Medical Education, Medical humanities, Psychiatry, Stigma, suicideTags: 100 words, BJPsych, British Journal of Psychiatry, Government, https://doi.org/10.1192/bjp.193.3.191, Narrative Controllers, National lead for suicide prevention, prejudice, psychiatrist, Psychiatry, stigma, suicide, The friends of liberty, The Narrative Controllers, working with the Government

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