https://soundcloud.com/thefamiliarstrange/ep107-bittersweet-stories/s-ypb6wv7jImj?si=ed6c91095baf4866878caee7be61817d&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing In this episode Familiar Stranger sat down with Fijian author and political analyst Edward Narain and Associate Professor Tarryn Philips from La Trobe University. Together Edward and Tarryn published Sugar: An Ethnographic Novel which reveals the extent to which the lives, health, and opportunities of Fijians are still dramatically affected by the country’s colonial … Continue reading Ep#109: Bittersweet Stories from Fiji with Dr Tarryn Phillips and Edward Narain
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The one thing that changed everything: Complex illness & the functional fallacy of a singular cause
When I asked my research participants what they felt had caused theirs or their patient’s schizophrenia, it was often put down to one thing or another, rather than one thing and another:
"It was because of this one bad acid tab”
“It was hereditary”
“It was the trauma”
... But when it came to the solution, it tended to be a multitude of things.
The Familiar Strange 