Dr. Arthur Kleinman is a psychiatrist and anthropologist who heads the Department of Social Medicine at Harvard University. In my last blog post, I talked about the heartbreaking story of Lia Lee in “The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down” …
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THE CAREGIVERS' LIVING ROOM - A Blog by Donna Thomson: The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down – Learning from Tragedy
I had to dry my tears and compose myself before beginning this post. It was a book that had made me cry – “The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down” by Anne Fadiman.
This is a story about a Laotian family of refugees in California whose daug…
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