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Medical sociology

the crumbling of former self-images without the development of equally valued new ones, a central form of suffering in chronic illness.

In medical sociology, loss of self refers to the crumbling of former self-images without the development of equally valued new ones, a central form of suffering in chronic illness. This meaning comes from Charmaz (1983) in Sociology of Health & Illness.[1]

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Charmaz, K. (1983). Loss of self: a fundamental form of suffering in the chronically ill. Sociology of Health & Illness, 5(2), 168-195. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9566.ep10491512

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