The Stigma of AddictionLike 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 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...
Revisiting 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...
Revisiting 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...