STIGMA AND MENTAL DISORDER - PHENOMENA AND TERMINOLOGY
STIGMA AND MENTAL DISORDER - PHENOMENA AND TERMINOLOGY
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DOI：
10.1080/00332747.1981.11024117
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发表时间：
1981-01-01
影响因子：
2.4
通讯作者：
CLAUSEN, JA
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作者：
CLAUSEN, JA
MY AIM in this paper is to examine the application of the concept stigma to mental disorder and to the mentally ill. I believe that the loose use of this term serves to obscure the real issues that must be confronted in attempting to change public response to mental disorder. I shall examine recent, and in my opinion illadvised, use of the concept stigma and then present some data that bear upon social responses to mentally ill patients and former patients in contemporary America. My data are derived from a long-term study of mental patients and their families, and I shall document that their feelings of stigmatization are not so much a consequence of the response of others to their having been hospitalized for mental illness or labeled mentally ill as of self-doubts or chronic manifestations of mental illness.The image of mental disorder in American society, and in all other societies of which we have knowledge, is a negative one. By whatever name they are referred to, psychotic persons tend to be hard to live with. They are frequently unreasonable. Even when they pose no threat to self or others, they may be exquisitely sensitive to slights from others, and they often rage furiously against those who love them most. Severe mental disorder evokes negative responses in those who must live with or deal with the affected person, whatever the label applied to that· person.
