DST 500 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Historically Informed Performance, Mental Disorder, Suicidal Ideation
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Chapter five - residential school syndrome (2006) - questions: the authors talk about the concept of symptom finding . Why do they argue against the pathologizing of aboriginal people"s responses to their experiences with and in. Aboriginal peoples have been oppressed, exploited, and rejected rights, but this concept argues that they must prove their sickness to get any kind of action. This pathology doesn"t reveal a sickness within those who had to experience life within the residential school. System, but rather it reveals the system of order giving rise to it. Firstly, in order for rss to be a thing, there has to be a cluster of symptoms among them. People"s experiences within the system are not uniform, despite the physical and philosophical aspects they endured. This aspect assumes that every individual, despite their personal experiences, experience suffering in the same way, under the same disorder.