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Stigma remains a stubborn barrier to mental healthcare, but what happens when we examine stigma within the very field that seeks to understand mental health? Psychiatric genetics occupies a sensitive position, shaped by complex public conversations around heredity, neurodiversity, genetic risk, and the field’s historical entanglement with eugenics. A new study by the International Society of Psychiatric Genetics (ISPG)’s Stigma Special Interest Group (SIG) takes a step toward