Despite the widespread prevalence of mental illness and the increasingly high need for mental health care, patients with mental illness continually fail to receive adequate or timely treatment. Among other reasons, stigma against and misunderstandings of mental illness prevent millions of people from promptly seeking appropriate medical attention, thereby distressing not only those affected, bu...

Ever since the publication of Dohm’s Ueber die bürgerliche Verbesserung der Juden (On Civil Improvement Jews) in 1781, which argued for Jewish political equality on humanitarian grounds, more and voices joined those demands. Prominent among them was David Friedländer, a friend disciple Moses Mendelssohn. One leading figures Berlin Haskalah, he worked towards establishing equal legal status Jews...