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Psychiatria Danubina, Vol. 25 No. suppl 2, 2013.

Conference paper

STIGMA IN CLINICAL PRACTICE

Slađana Štrkalj-Ivezić ; University Hospital Vrapče, Zagreb, Croatia

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Abstract

Much more is known about attitudes toward mental illness and social stigma, the viscious cycle of its consequences and how to
fight the social stigma in public, but much less is known about how to combat the stigma and self stigma in clinical practice. Stigma
theories have not been enough to understand the feelings and experience of people with mental illness. Conceptual framework that
understands stigma as consisting of difficulties of knowledge (ignorance or misinformation), problems of attitudes (prejudice), and
problems of behaviour (discrimination) have not o been enough to understand stigma dynamics in the patient therapist interaction.
Understanding the psychodynamic aspects of internalized stereotype of mental illness in the patient- therapist relationship may
improve our competency to deal with stigma and self stigma in clinical practice.

Keywords

stigma; schizophrenia; psychodynamic aspects

Hrčak ID:

266518

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/266518

Publication date:

26.8.2013.

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