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When indigenous spiritual understanding conflicts with Western mental health approaches

My son died by suicide two months ago and the elders say his spirit is troubled, but my therapist says that's just adding guilt to grief and I don't know who to trust anymore.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Competing frameworks for understanding suffering can leave grieving people caught between worldviews.

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“Where Are You with Indigenous spiritualities — North America?”

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