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Still on Naomi

End of the Bapu chapter. This book is beginning to lose me. For all its emphasis on the power of stories, its own depiction of the cases are muddled, the timelines murky. And in pushing for understanding over bias, it seems to be falling into bias of its own.

The spellbinding intro (young Rachel, the world’s youngest anorexic).
Part I — Ray. Antidepressants 1, Psychotherapy 0.
Part II — Bapu, a devotee of Krishna.

idk man. The cases seem kind of arbitrarily chosen, and the analysis shot through with bias.