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Why therapy feels culturally reductive

My therapist keeps talking about my 'cultural trauma' but I just want help with my anxiety without everything being about being an immigrant.

Juana
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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The medicalization of cultural experience can reduce complex identity to pathology rather than addressing individual humanity.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Diaspora identity — living between worlds?”

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