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[Stigma, stigma management, destigmatization].

A Finzen
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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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A Finzen. 2000. [Stigma, stigma management, destigmatization].. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/11103390/

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