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Decontextualized Depression and PTSD Diagnoses Fail Indigenous Communities

Ayurdhi Dhar, PhD - September 26, 2019 8

A case analysis of an American Indian woman illustrates how the DSM diagnostic criteria misrepresent the lives of indigenous people.

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