Don't Call Me Nuts : Coping with the Stigma of Mental Illness

DON'T CALL ME NUTS! is a handbook for persons with mental illness. In its pages are discussions about dealing with self-stigma, knowing when or whether to disclose a mental illness, seven ways to foster personal empowerment, and legal and political remedies. From the point of view of impacting society, DON'T CALL ME NUTS! explores the public's reaction to stigma through the methods of contact, education, and protest.

Authors Patrick Corrigan and Robert Lundin are in themselves experts in the subject. Corrigan, the executive director of the University of Chicago Center for Psychiatric Rehabilitation, has published widely on the subject and in the broader field of psychiatric rehabilitation. Lundin, a former freelance reporter for the Chicago Tribune, has lived with a schizoaffective disorder for 20 years.