The Mental Illness Panopticon

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A young boy sitting apart from two other children.

Understanding Internalized Stigma As Foucault puts it, the panopticon is a versatile mechanism of power that organizes and controls individuals within a given space. It functions as a model of surveillance that imposes discipline by ensuring that individuals feel constantly observed, whether or not they are actually being watched. Traditionally, this concept has been applied

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