This article was valuable to me. My fiancee's close family, and myself, have been trying to convince her to go to therapy for anger issues. She's always refuse

This article was valuable to me. My fiancee's close family, and myself, have been trying to convince her to go to therapy for anger issues. She's always refused and stated that therapy is just for weaklings / white people. If her mom could survive near-death experiences during the Khmer Rouge and not need therapy, then she didn't need it either... So the opening example of Khmer Rouge survivors receiving CBT was a perfect introduction to this article. I really hope she connects with the topic and considers giving therapy a chance. Also, about this example further in: >One study (an unpublished doctoral thesis) mentioned in the review found that cultural adaptation – in terms of the languages used and the ethnicity of people involved – led to worse therapeutic outcomes. Hispanic college students who had phobias around giving speeches went through a video-feedback-based treatment in either English, or English and Spanish, and they practised giving speeches either in front of a white or a Hispanic audience. The participants who gave speeches in English to white audiences showed greater reductions in anxiety than the other groups. One possible explanation is that the Hispanic speakers felt a greater amount of anxiety from a Spanish-speaking audience due to greater cultural expectations. So rather than English being some kind of special anxiety-lessening language, it's more likely (IMHO) that any language other than their first one (e.g., Spanish) would have resulted in an audience with lower speaking standards expectations for the speaker to worry about. Tangentially, Slavoj Zizek often tells an anecdote of how while in India, some less-affluent people told him that they preferred English because their native Hindi dialects are just embedded with hierarchy and class stratification. I don't know if this is really the case, but if it is, then Zizek's assertion that revolutionary thought can require new language is an interesting one. Even more tangentally, I am reminded of how I can type better in Dvorak, not just because it is more efficient than QWERTY, but because learning it forced me to drop the bad habits I had carried with me over the years from when I first began using a keyboard to play simple computer games in the late 90s. Overall the theme is apparently a clean slate / new environment / blank canvas / fresh perspective can be instrumental for transformation.