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Jun 14, 2021The Stigma of AddictionLike epilepsy, addiction just is. Yet the effects of stigma are still prevail. Shame and secrecy govern every addicted family system, and...
Jun 14, 2021Revisiting Stigma: The Game of Appearances - Case ExampleIn 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...
Jul 18, 2017Revisiting Stigma: The Game of AppearancesA Sociological Perspective Doesn’t the term stigma harken us back to Sociology 101? Those were the days when Irving Goffman was in the...
May 13, 2017Revisiting the Age-Old Case of Diagnostic Confusion: Sociopath Versus PsychopathMany forensic psychologists and criminologists use the terms sociopathy and psychopathy interchangeably. Leading experts have disagreed...