Literary destigmatisation of mental illness: A study of the writings of Jayakanthan

National and international associations of psychiatry are busy formulating and executing anti-stigma measures and activities. Literary works of creative artists could be utilised for this purpose. This article based on the writings of a popular Tamil writer Jayakanthan discusses some of his works in...

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Autor principal: Somasundaram, O.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2013
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Literary Psychiatry
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3777356/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24082255
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0019-5545.117154
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spelling pubmed-37773562013-09-30 Literary destigmatisation of mental illness: A study of the writings of Jayakanthan Somasundaram, O. Indian J Psychiatry Literary Psychiatry National and international associations of psychiatry are busy formulating and executing anti-stigma measures and activities. Literary works of creative artists could be utilised for this purpose. This article based on the writings of a popular Tamil writer Jayakanthan discusses some of his works in relation to this. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2013 /pmc/articles/PMC3777356/ /pubmed/24082255 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0019-5545.117154 Text en Copyright: © Indian Journal of Psychiatry http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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title_full Literary destigmatisation of mental illness: A study of the writings of Jayakanthan
title_fullStr Literary destigmatisation of mental illness: A study of the writings of Jayakanthan
title_full_unstemmed Literary destigmatisation of mental illness: A study of the writings of Jayakanthan
title_short Literary destigmatisation of mental illness: A study of the writings of Jayakanthan
title_sort literary destigmatisation of mental illness: a study of the writings of jayakanthan
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3777356/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24082255
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