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Reintegrative Stigma-Management Strategies of Ex-Psychiatric Patients

With the exception of a few studies, little systematic attention has been given to individuals in their postdeviant careers. Drawing on data collected through participant observation and informal interviews with 146 nonchronic ex-psychiatric patients, this article explicates dimensions of their exit process and social reintegration. Specifically, attention is given to ex-patients' perceptions of mental illness as a stigmatizable/stigmatizing attribute, the problems they faced, the manner by which they manage discreditable/discrediting information about themselves, and the consequences of such for altering their deviant identities and social reintegration. This article suggests that ex-psychiatric patients are strategists and negotiators who play active roles in attempting to shape their deviant outcomes, techniques which have implications for identity transformation and reintegration.

Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, Vol. 22, No. 3, 295-330 (1993)
DOI: 10.1177/089124193022003002


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