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Social Social justice entails equal access to liberties, rights, and opportunities, as well as care for the least advantaged members of society. The editors, at the forefront of the effort to make…
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Social justice entails equal access to liberties, rights, and opportunities, as well as care for the least advantaged members of society. The editors, at the forefront of the effort to make psychiatry responsive to critiques of institutional racism, argue that in the United States, a perfect storm of unfair and unjust policies and practices, bolstered by deep-seated beliefs about the inferiority of some groups, has led to a small number of people having tremendous advantages, freedoms, and opportunities, while a growing number are denied those liberties and rights. The paradigm-shifting new book Social (In)Justice and Mental Health addresses the ways in which society's failure to deliver on that humane ideal harms people with mental illness.
Mental health clinicians bear a special responsibility to be aware of these structural inequities, to question their own biases, to intervene on