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------and much work has been done to reduce stigma ...
“Reduce” stigma is a relatively new phrase. I did not encounter it after WW II as “reduce” the stigma of Jews, nor as part of the Women's Movement as “reduce” the stigma of rape.
I wonder who designed it, what their purpose was, and why they want to keep any?
I am equally curious about why it is so easily repeated. Is there indeed a purpose, a power, in using that term, “stigma”, a negative power that interferes not only with research, but public comprehension, and creates public apprehension?
Harold A. Maio, retired mental health editor
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