Week 5 - Yufei Liu

When I was reading What a Shaman Sees in A Mental Hospital by Stephanie Marohn with Malidoma Patrice Somé, I immediately thought of the term reverse social engineering from ASA 002 I took last quarter. According to scholars, a reverse social engineering attack is “a person-to-person attack in which an attacker convinces the target that he or she has a problem or might have a certain problem in the future and that he, the attacker, is ready to help solve the problem.” It is basically how modern-day society suppresses people for their differences and denies their perspectives. To defeat this reverse social engineering, for example, Hmong women don’t believe in therapy because of their fortitude to preserve traditions, culture, and knowledge. People today are made to believe that they have all kinds of illnesses, including physical and mental. However, these illnesses sometimes can be a sign for spiritual awakening.

N/A. (2017, April 26). Are you experiencing a mental illness or a spiritual awakening?

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