Stigmatization and Psychiatry: A Local Review
Volume 5 - Issue 2
Saeed Shoja Shafti*
- Full Professor of Psychiatry, University of Social Welfare and Rehabilitation Sciences (USWR), Razi Psychiatric Hospital, Iran
Received: February 08, 2021 Published:February 22, 2021
Corresponding author: Saeed Shoja Shafti, Full Professor of Psychiatry, University of Social Welfare and Rehabilitation Sciences (USWR), Razi Psychiatric Hospital, Iran
DOI: 10.32474/OJNBD.2021.05.000209
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Abstract
Stigmatizing attitudes toward persons with mental syndromes are prevalent in the general population and even among mental
health professionals, a problem that may result easily in public avoidance, constant discrimination, and declined help-seeking
behavior. The effect of stigma is twofold: Public stigma is the response that the public has to people with mental disorder. Selfstigma
is the bigotry which persons with mental disorder turn against themselves. The WHO has advised that stigma is one of
the largest barricades to treatment engagement, even if management is operative, even in low-income nations. While before and
according to a series of researches the outcome of severe mental illness is generally better in developing societies than in developed
countries, and it has been suggested that stigma is less severe or non-existent in unindustrialized nations, the current studies and
observations do not confirm such an optimistic hint and the idea that stigma attached to mental illness is a global phenomenon
seems a reasonable inference. In the present article, the issue of stigmatization, deinstitutionalization, national goal setting, and
real situation of various modules of psychiatric rehabilitation, in the context of social or public psychiatry, especially in developing
countries, is discussed, from a practical point of view.
Keywords: Chronic Mental Patient; Severe Mental Illness; Psychiatric Rehabilitation; Public Psychiatry; Social Psychiatry; Stigma
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