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The Stigma of Addiction

Like epilepsy, addiction just is. Yet the effects of stigma are still prevail. Shame and secrecy govern every addicted family system, and...

Revisiting Stigma: The Game of Appearances - Case Example

In the session from which the following excerpt is taken, Sam (patient) sees through his own act and the lengths he’d gone to present a...

Revisiting Stigma: The Game of Appearances

A Sociological Perspective Doesn’t the term stigma harken us back to Sociology 101? Those were the days when Irving Goffman was in the...

Revisiting the Age-Old Case of Diagnostic Confusion: Sociopath Versus Psychopath

Many forensic psychologists and criminologists use the terms sociopathy and psychopathy interchangeably. Leading experts have disagreed...