A Critical Approach to Abnormality 255biomedical procedure of clinical research, diagnosis, and intervention. We
can certainly learn from indigenous methods aimed at psychological
wellness derived, in part, from the global South as having the benefit of not
being enmeshed with capitalism therein, also, being freer to operate outside
of the confines of biomedicalized institutional power with its
homogenization of subjectivities. Such a retrieval creates spaces in which
to challenge the social consequences of over-pathologization—those like
prescription abuse, stigma, homelessness, and so on. The dissipation of
these ‘symptoms,’ so to speak, would signal how successful alternative
interventions have been in combating the centralized approaches that have
traditionally pervaded concepts and practices in abnormal psychology.
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