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The Social Dimension of Stress: Experimental Manipulations of Social Support and Social Identity in the Trier Social Stress Test
Published on: November 19, 2015
[Stigma, stigma management, destigmatization]
1Psychiatrische Universitätsklinik Basel, Schweiz.
Abstract:
WHO and WPA recently inaugurated worldwide "anti-stigma-campaigns". On this background the exploration discrimination of against the mentally ill of the term stigma and its meaning is useful. Stigma dates from ancient Greece and was meant to be a visible sign of disgrace. Today stigma and stigma management are sociological terms described by the American sociologist Ervin Goffman (1963) in is essay "Stigma--notes on the management to spoiled identity". Changes and hazards of attempts of destigmatization are explored.
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