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Old Mar 08, 2014, 06:44 PM
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While I think that therapy is a good thing I agree with stopdog that it isn't a universal panacea. When I did volunteer work in Southeast Asia one of the first things we were taught in our cross cultural training is that where we were going the people weren't as concerned with the actual work we were doing but rather with building relationships with us. For westerners like Americans we are very individualistic & achievement oriented but in many non-western countries they are more focused on community and relationships. So, in those cultures they have other resources of help that we may not. In some ways the prevalence of therapy shows some of our cultural deficiencies. Both have advantages and disadvantages. We have more freedom to talk about things that in more traditional cultures are not openly discussed but they may have stronger communal bonds that provide natural emotional supports that we don't have as much of.
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Thanks for this!
Lauliza, stopdog