Historically, many cultures associated mental illness with demonic possession, sin, or weakness of will. In cultures influenced by Christianity, widespread beliefs in a holy soul housed by a material ...
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Ramya Ramadurai, a Ph.D. graduate student in clinical psychology at American University, contributed to this post. Stigma is defined as a mark of shame or discredit. Through sociological labelling ...
This post inaugurates a series of posts on stigma and community—written in collaboration with David Matthew Doyle, Ph.D.—throughout which we will clarify how the stigma associated with disease ...