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Why therapeutic translation can dilute the essence of cultural experience

I am tired of translating my experience into language that therapists understand and losing the actual meaning in the process.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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Clinical vocabulary cannot capture the nuanced reality of culturally-specific forms of distress and healing.

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