The Spirit Catches You And You Fall Down

Separation In the book “The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down” by Anne Fadiman, a child named Lia Lee is taken away from her parents by Child Protective Services and placed in foster care. Because they aren’t giving her medication for epilepsy. Although resulting in some medical benefits those benefits were lost because of destructive psychological and emotional damage to Lia. Dr. Neil Ernst decided to call child protective services when Lia Lee’…

…must also treat the soul, what happened here is that Lia’s soul got hurt so she didn’t get better at all, nor much worse. That is why I think the medicine didn’t work effectively. It is unfortunate that cultural misunderstanding and language barriers got in the way of what could have been resolved much more easily. (#) Citation Fadiman, Anne. The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down. New York: The Noonday Press, 1997 (#)