الوصمة الاجتماعية للمرض النفسي و انعكاساتها على الفرد و الأسرة : دراسة نظرية في سوسيولوجيا الوصم الاجتماعي

Abstract EN

This study sought to achieve a main goal, which is : to identify the social stigma of mental illness and its repercussions on the patient and his family, and from this goal four sub-goals were known, represented in : Identifying the nature of : social stigma, and the nature of mental illness, as well as identifying the reflection of social stigma on the patient.

The study used the descriptive approach to describe the phenomenon as it is by digging into some previous studies and reviewing the theoretical literature of the place, and the study reached several results, the most important of which was : that beliefs about Mental illness has become a cultural residue, as it lies in the system of thinking of the members of society, that mental illness is not accepted by the cultural context as a stigma, and I concluded that the major crisis is the stigma that affects the mind, feelings and behavior of the stigmatized patient and makes him act as he expects from the stigmatized society and this It imbued the stigma, and in light of this, the study recommended several recommendations, the most important of which were : to play its role in transferring this elite, factional awareness to a societal awareness and to find and establish societal alternatives of traditional institutions as a result of the association of mental illness with stigma.