Patrick W. Corrigan is a US-based author and advocate for people with a mental illness, particularly in relation to the issue of stigma.
He has written more than 15 books and 400 peer reviewed articles specializing in issues related to the mental illness[1] stigmas.
[5] More recently, he has edited "On the Stigma of Mental Illness: Practical strategies for research and social change"[6] which illustrated perspectives from a wide variety of sources, including people with a mental illness, to look at practical affirmative action tactics that can be used to fight against stigma.
Corrigan notes that the idea of color blindness[8] can transfer to mental illness and has the same effect on the population.
His work also references how a prognosis can be detrimental to a patient in a way were they are held to the same stigmas of their newly named illness.